Saorsa Labs

Privacy-first, decentralised AI and networking tools.

Saorsa (pronounced "SUR-sa") is the Scottish Gaelic word for freedom — the founding principle behind everything we build.

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Projects

🌿 Fae — On-Device AI Assistant

A thoughtful, voice-first AI assistant for macOS that runs entirely on Apple Silicon. No cloud. No API keys. No data leaves your Mac.

• Full ML stack on-device: speech recognition (Qwen3-ASR), language model (Qwen3.5 / LFM2-24B), TTS (Kokoro-82M), vision (Qwen3-VL), speaker verification (ECAPA-TDNN)
• 31 built-in tools: web search, calendar, mail, contacts, file ops, bash, screen + camera vision, computer use, scheduler, and more
• Long-horizon memory: SQLite + ANN vector search + entity graph
• Layered security model with default-deny policy and reversibility engine
• Skills system: install, create, and share Python-based capability extensions
• GitHub →

🤖 saorsa1 — Companion Model Series

Fine-tuned LLMs built on Qwen3.5, optimised for Fae's warm and considered conversational style.

• MLX format — runs natively on Apple Silicon via mlx-lm
• Apache 2.0 licence
• saorsa1-tiny-pre-release →

🌐 saorsa-core — P2P Networking Library

A multi-layer peer-to-peer networking library written in Rust.

• Kademlia DHT with K=8 replication and geographic awareness
• Adaptive routing with ML-optimised path selection
• Post-quantum identity: ML-DSA-65 public keys
• Human-readable addresses via four-word-networking
• Built on ant-quic for native NAT traversal
• GitHub →

🔗 saorsa-node — P2P Network Node

The reference node binary for the saorsa network — deployable on servers and embedded devices.

• Runs the full DHT + routing + QUIC stack
• Global bootstrap network (NYC, SFO, Helsinki, Nuremberg, Singapore, Tokyo)
• Health and metrics HTTP endpoints
• GitHub →

⚡ ant-quic — QUIC Transport

QUIC transport with native NAT traversal — no STUN, ICE, or TURN servers required.

• Implements draft-seemann-quic-nat-traversal-02
• Post-quantum cryptography via saorsa-pqc
• GitHub →

🔐 saorsa-pqc — Post-Quantum Cryptography

Production-ready post-quantum primitives.

• ML-DSA-65 (signatures) and ML-KEM-768 (key encapsulation)
• Used throughout the saorsa networking stack and Fae
• GitHub →

🕸️ x0x — Decentralised Agent Network

A peer-to-peer network for autonomous agents. Agents join the global network with a single call and discover each other without any central server.

• Available on crates.io, npm, and PyPI
• Global always-on network with bootstrap nodes across 6 continents
• Built on the saorsa P2P stack (QUIC, DHT, post-quantum identity)
• GitHub →

🏘️ communitas — Decentralised Collaboration

A privacy-first collaboration platform built with Dioxus + Tauri 2, powered by the saorsa P2P stack.

• GitHub →

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Have questions about Fae, saorsa1, or our networking stack?

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Links

• 🐙 GitHub
• 📧 david@saorsalabs.com
• 📄 Apache 2.0 · AGPL-3.0