About
Zypher Systems is a small, solo-led shop that builds open source tools for local AI, automation, and self-hosted infrastructure. Everything we publish, we run ourselves first.
Who is behind this
Zypher Systems has been solo-led since 2021, with collaborators brought in where it helps. That means the person who writes the code is the person who answers your email, and there is no account manager in between.
The day-to-day is Fedora on AMD hardware, local inference through Lemonade Server and llama.cpp, n8n for orchestration, and Docker Compose for everything that has to stay running. The Strix Halo write-up is a fair sample of how deep we go before publishing something.
What we believe
You should be able to read the code that runs your business
Every project we publish is open source. Not source-available, not open-core with the useful parts behind a license key — actually open, actually forkable. If we disappear tomorrow, everything we built for you keeps working and you can change it.
Local beats remote more often than people assume
A single modern APU with 128GB of unified memory runs models that needed a rack of hardware two years ago. For a lot of teams, the honest calculation now favours hardware you own: no per-token bill, no data leaving the building, no vendor deprecating the model you built on.
Tools should not be a data collection scheme
Every utility in the tools section runs entirely in your browser. Nothing you paste is uploaded, logged, or analyzed. Open devtools and watch the network tab — that claim is verifiable, which is the only kind of privacy claim worth making.
Write the guide you wish you had found
Most of what we publish exists because the documentation was missing and the forum threads ended in "never mind, fixed it." If we lose a week to something, the write-up is the least we can do for the next person.
The stack we actually run
This site is a working example rather than a brochure. It is a static site generated by a Python script, served by nginx, backed by a FastAPI service and PostgreSQL, built and deployed by GitLab CI, and measured with self-hosted Umami. The whole thing is a few hundred kilobytes and has no third-party trackers.
Work with us
We take on a small number of projects around automation, local AI, and getting off SaaS. Scope and starting prices are listed openly.