Rudder

Rudder is a personal operating system. It acts as a local-first dashboard and coordination layer.

I built this because I wanted to own my telemetry. The system runs entirely on local hardware. It collects health data, biometric patterns, and journal entries.

Local-First Architecture

Most software today relies on the cloud. That means your data lives on someone else's servers.

Rudder shifts that control back to you. The stack is built on Next.js, SQLite, and vector embeddings. It runs on a local Mac Studio. It communicates with smart devices over secure local protocols.

The system processes data locally. It builds a connected graph of your life. It relates what you did, how you felt, and how your body responded.

Key Capabilities

• Sovereign Data Storage: Your biometric logs never leave your physical machine.
• Graph Connections: Every metric and note becomes a node in a relational database.
• Local Processing: Algorithms analyze patterns locally without external API calls.
• Offline Mode: The system does not need an active internet connection to function.

This is a developer-first project. You can clone the repository, run the setup script, and deploy it to your own home server.