// dev collective

Webuildsoftwarethatships.

PulseOnix is a small collective of developers and researchers: client work, open source, AI engineering, hackathons.

Available for new projects

Four things, done properly.

The range is deliberately small: build for clients, push the frontier in AI and systems, publish in the open, and show up when it counts. Every pillar is backed by real work.

01

Custom development

Websites, web apps, internal tools, integrations and automations. Built to spec and shipped properly, not left as a prototype.

web · apps · integrations
02

AI & ML engineering

Model fine-tuning, inference engines, agent pipelines and Hugging Face ecosystem work: from a weekend experiment to a production line.

ml · agents · inference
03

Open source & research

Systems programming, AI research and developer tooling published in the open, with honest results and reproducible reports.

systems · research · tooling
04

Hackathons

Fast, focused builds under pressure. An idea becomes a working demo in a weekend, and we show up with something real.

ideas to demos, fast

Built in the open, still moving.

Active research and open-source projects, currently in development and running locally. Scroll: each project files the previous one away.

01
research

Kestrel

A consequence-driven agent that learns hidden rules purely from experience, no corpus and no pretraining, across six phases from tabular world models to self-modifying exploration.

by Alish Karki

  • Verified knowledge transfer between agents: 0% to 100% in one episode
  • Specialists to generalist: 3.1x speedup, all rules mastered
  • Self-modifying exploration: 30% faster re-mastery after rule swaps
  • Runs on CPU in seconds, every claim backed by logged experience
  • Python
  • RL
  • World models
  • Research
coming soon
02
in development

PRISM

A CPU LLM inference engine in C99 where everything is a plugin: kernels, model architectures, tokenizers, samplers, even the generation loop and frontend.

by Alish Karki

  • The whole engine composes from a ~500 line registry core
  • GGUF and llama2.c checkpoints, F32/F16/Q8_0/Q4_0 kernels
  • AVX2 kernels parity-tested against the reference backend (about 9x f32)
  • OpenAI-compatible REST API and quantized KV cache included
  • C99
  • LLM inference
  • Plugins
  • Systems
coming soon
03
open source

hfm

A multi-account Hugging Face manager: one CLI and one MCP server for every HF account, repo and Space, built for humans and AI agents alike.

by Alish Karki

  • OAuth device flow: no tokens pasted into dotfiles, auto-refreshed
  • MCP server exposes the same operations to AI agents over stdio
  • Read-only mode and an audit log as safety rails for agent access
  • Repos, uploads, secrets and transfers, all account-switched
  • Python
  • CLI
  • MCP
  • Developer tools
coming soon
04
open source in development

vek

A systems-level project written in C, exploring low-level programming and performance-critical computation.

by Alish Karki

  • Written in C for direct hardware control and memory management
  • Systems programming focus: performance, efficiency, resource control
  • Low-level implementation without runtime dependencies

Small crew, parallel skills.

A handful of friends who build together: systems and inference, AI and tooling, web and automation. We cover each other's gaps and hold everything we ship to the same bar.

Alish Karki

AI & Embedded Developer

AI agents, embedded systems & developer tools

@Alish-0x

Ritesh Raut

AI & Full-Stack Developer

AI agents, ML & web apps

@RautRitesh

Sewak Sunar

Mechanical Developer

Computational design & engineering tools

@sewaksunar

Sudin Rai

AI & Full-Stack Developer

AI agents, RAG systems & tooling

@sudin-tech

Have a project in mind?

Tell us what you're trying to build. We'll reply with honest feedback, a realistic scope, and a clear path, even if it's "you don't need us for this."

[email protected]

Currently accepting new projects

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