Most shops treat open source as marketing wallpaper. We still ship tools we use ourselves — and we keep them public because that is how we learn the stack properly.
OLLMchat sits in that strip: a real AI client across Windows, Android, and Linux, with semantic search over your own tree and Vala libraries we reuse in commercial work. It is not a brochure feature. It is the lab bench.
The kind of screen we ship — not a slide deck.
The same pattern shows up elsewhere — RooJS for UI we trust, speech-to-text when privacy matters, wrappers when the platform will not bend. Free does not mean unfinished; it means we are willing to own the code in the open.
If you are exploring similar problems — agents, search, or cross-platform clients — the public repos are the honest starting point. The stories here are how we talk about that work without inventing case studies.
