Keel
Registered
Reachable, and standing under the name. A thing is registered when a stranger can use it without being introduced to its author first.
A deterministic simplicity engine for Rust. Ranks a codebase against itself and refuses to grade it.
An offline question-answering appliance. Every claim carries a citation to the corpus it came from, and nothing leaves the box.
A GPT-2 engine you can see inside. The forward pass is written out rather than called into, so the residual stream can be traced, read and steered.
On the ways
Under construction. A hull on the ways is not a ship and is not counted as one.
A visual instrument for working on real codebases.
AI governance framework.
A Macro-MoE. Routes to small local specialists instead of one general model.
Lost
Begun in earnest, then abandoned. Only self-directed work is entered here; commissions are somebody else's ship. None of it died of bad code.
Self-hosted chat cleared for IL2+ workloads. Rust and Axum, Postgres in-cluster.
I built it for someone and it never got used. It stayed mine.
A self-hostable purple-team wargame range.
I moved my homelab and never set it back up. A range with nothing to run on is just a repository.
A personal AI workspace.
I no longer remember what it was for. Eight commits in a single day and not one of them stuck.
A remote control for Cider, the Apple Music client.
I moved off Linux, which is the only reason I was running Cider. The remote had nothing left to control.
Register
Keep the answers short. We read for whether you build, not for polish. You get an answer either way, including no.
What this is
Keel is an umbrella you ship under until you can ship alone. You're here because you can build but can't release. No entity, no partners, no reach. Keel carries that weight while you learn to carry it yourself. It is not a server to hang out in.
What you get
While you don't have one.
Engineering, security, business, growth, design. Somebody here does the part you don't.
Mentors and experts sit in the allies channel. Real contracts and grants land in opportunities.
What you owe
Any size. It just has to be real.
If it happened in a DM, it didn't happen.
Ten minutes from you is a day off somebody's week.
Leaving a project is fine. Vanishing from one isn't.
Who reads your request
I'm Owen, founder of Keel. I've seen a big problem within recent years of startups, so many people have good ideas, good execution, but when it comes to finding partners, growth, and production, they halt. So I started Keel to counteract that. I wanted a space where I could meet likeminded people in a professional manner, to help me close gaps I couldn't alone.
That's the true, albeit short backstory, but here's a little more about me. I'm 18, always been hands on. When I was 12 I dove into game exploiting, specifically Roblox & Minecraft. I started off making simple scripts for Roblox, mainly just massive repository scripts of what I could find, as well as UI libs, and custom GUIs for others. Then I went in a little deeper, started writing my own dlls for Roblox executors, learning C on the way.
I shifted gears (literally) as I got into more mechanical things. I tinkered with vintage ATVs (Suzuki LT125) and anything else I could get my hands on. As of late it's been almost entirely cars. I had the opportunity to get some hands on experience at a Porsche tuner shop and built up a 400hp BMW 335i. My AI and recent engineering endeavors are fresh, but deep and constant, from learning the basics of ML and Quant, to setting up an autonomous pentesting lab on enterprise hardware.