LOCAL AI. OPEN HARDWARE. YOUR DATA STAYS WITH YOU.
Digital infrastructure
for you.
somsorium brings AI, collaboration, research and open infrastructure together in one system you can keep under your own control.
Runs on your own hardware
No forced cloud
Only what you approve is allowed
Will be published under AGPL-3.0
Every action is logged
Your data stays yours
Built in Leipzig
The system
Four building blocks. One open ecosystem.
somsorium connects personal AI, communication, research and local infrastructure. Each part works on its own — together they make a system in which data, knowledge and tools can stay under your control.
From a question to shared knowledge
One algae culture. One question. Many experiments.
What happens when an experiment does not end with its result — but becomes something others can build on?
A microalgae culture grows inside a laborium cassette. We want to understand how different conditions change its growth.
A simple question becomes a documented experiment — and that experiment can become the starting point for a shared research question.
How much light is enough?
Microalgae need light to grow. But more light does not necessarily mean more growth.
What changes when we vary the conditions deliberately?
A question becomes a controlled experiment.
laborium keeps track of what we change, what stays constant and what we observe.
The culture runs in a laborium cassette. Experimental conditions, measurements and observations stay connected to the experiment.
- Light cycle
- 12 h / 12 h
- Temperature
- — example value —
- Medium
- — example value —
- Started
- — example value —
The culture changes. So does the data.
Measurements and observations accumulate over time.
Not every difference is immediately visible — and not every change means the same thing.
Spot patterns. Ask better questions.
smolit can help compare measurement series, surface unusual changes and explore possible relationships.
Why does one culture develop differently from another? Which condition is worth testing next?
smolit · illustrationExperiment B changes more noticeably after day 4.
A result does not have to end in your own folder.
Results, images and context can be shared and discussed through mesorium.
That turns an experiment into something others can see, question and build on.
Full structured publication of the experimental setup, data and analysis is one of the parts we are continuing to build.
mesorium connects publishing, community and communication.
Microalgae · light experiment
How does light change the growth of a microalgae culture?
Others may notice what you have not seen yet.
A research group has seen a similar effect.
An SME contributes practical experience with cultivation or lighting.
A maker suggests a different setup.
A school class wants to recreate a simplified version.
One result becomes a discussion — and that discussion creates new questions.
The same experiment. Different conditions.
Others repeat the experiment — perhaps with a different light cycle, another culture or a changed environment.
Their observations can be shared again and compared with the original.
An observation becomes something others can test.
One experiment can provide an indication.
When others can understand it, change it and repeat it, a more robust picture can emerge.
That is where research, AI and collaboration meet in somsorium.
The smolit node can run the participating services locally.
Who it’s for
Who we’re building this for.
For you
Personal AI, your own data and tools that stay under your control.
smolit · smolit node Read more →Teams & organisations
Communication, knowledge and collaboration, without pooling everything with one central platform provider.
mesorium · smolit node Read more →Research & education
Document experiments, analyse data, publish results and develop them further together.
laborium · smolit · mesorium Read more →Makers & developers
Open software, open hardware, interfaces and systems you can understand, change and run yourself.
smolit node · laborium Read more →The context
What is changing right now.
AI is moving from a chat window to a tool that can work with files, accounts, devices and workflows. At the same time, more and more of our communication, work and data sits on platforms belonging to someone else.
We are building the other direction: systems that can run locally, work together openly and stay possible to follow.
Local, where local makes sense.
Connected, where working together needs it.
Open enough to stay checkable.
Where we stand
Where we are.
Some parts are running, others are being built. We would rather tell you which is which than let you guess.
Today
- smolit is a release candidate with a reproducible build.
- mesorium runs for private areas and connected groups.
- laborium runs locally and holds experiment and measurement series together.
- For the node there is a lab device and a tested build pipeline.
Next
- The audit view in smolit.
- Public read access in mesorium.
- The first complete run from question to published result.
- The repositories open under AGPL-3.0.
After that
- Parts list and build plan for the node.
- The lab hardware, so others can rebuild it.
Test network
somsorium is opening step by step.
Our first test network is planned for up to 5 organisations and 500 individuals. We are not assigning places yet. If you would like to try somsorium early, you can join the waitlist now — it commits you to nothing.
Non-binding. We’ll be in touch once we open suitable places.
