Independent, self-funded, and run out of Charlotte, NC.
Robinson Labs is the homelab of Stephen Robinson, a ServiceNow architect in Charlotte, NC who got tired of renting intelligence. By day I design enterprise platforms; by night I run a local-first AI operating system on hardware I own.
The bet is simple: own your models, your memory, and your tools. Local inference, persistent memory across sessions, agentic tooling that does real work, no rented GPUs, no API key on the critical path. The interesting problems live in the wiring, not the billing.
It started as a pile of PCs under the desk and a mining-era stack of GPUs. Today it is fifteen machines on a 10-gigabit fabric, two NAS boxes, a custom water loop, and a llama.cpp cluster serving a 212B with roughly two million tokens of live context across three brain nodes. Tomorrow it moves to the garage when the last SFP+ link lands.
This is where I write down what I learn building it: the dead ends, the BIOS resets, the "nothing changed but everything broke" nights. The rule the whole thing runs on is the same one I bring to enterprise work: lean, efficient, no bloat, runs on anything.