KAIZEN
The AI That Stays Home.
Est. 1998 — Founded by Shawn McCalla
Technical writing on sovereign AI, local infrastructure, cybersecurity, and the engineering behind Project Kaizen.
On being called weird for building things, sharing publicly, and seeing what's coming before the room catches up. The weird ones were never wrong. They were just early.
Read Article →Roku Live TV on Emby + Apple Silicon was broken. Every forum said give up. We found the root cause, built a wrapper-based fix, tested it end-to-end, and open sourced it.
Read Article →Building production-grade security around a 19-container Mailcow Docker stack on peered infrastructure. Custom firewall, kernel hardening, automated auditing, off-box monitoring. From zero to a 94/100 automated security audit score.
Read Article →Is Apple sitting on the most important AI infrastructure play that nobody's talking about? Four Mac Studios. 2TB unified memory. 600 watts. The math is changing.
Read Article →Most people use large language models to generate text. I built one that locks doors, arms alarms, adjusts thermostats, and reasons about who just pulled into the driveway.
Read Article →In 1998, I co-founded a cybersecurity company called INTRAC.NET. Nearly three decades later, the same question drives me: how does every layer of a system talk to every other layer? The answer now fits in a rack in my closet.
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KAIZEN
The AI That Stays Home.
Est. 1998 — Founded by Shawn McCalla