Lacuna Labs

Apps

Three shipping, one on the roadmap. One studio.

The Curator

private beta · v2.5

A collection partner for someone who collects, catalogs, and cares for objects of value. Drop a piece’s photo in, get help understanding it: what it is, who made it, what era, what’s worth knowing. Then list it for sale — Etsy, eBay, both at once if the operator wants.

Built on six substrates: Cortex (the operator’s local graph), Engram (per-operator cloud projection), Loam (cohort-anonymized world knowledge), Atlas (curated public reference), Apollo (the public reading surface), and Sakura LLM (the on-device voice that ties them together).

Go to The Curator →  ·  Request beta access →

Lacuna

v0.3 · alpha

A resident operator daemon for a single-user POSIX host. A Unix-shaped tool with a small mind, a large toolkit, and a refusal-first permission model. It listens on localhost; it answers most queries from a deterministic toolkit; it falls through to a small local language model when the toolkit cannot.

Privileged operations route through a tiered permission matrix — five tiers, scoped and time-limited grants, append-only audit log. The on-device assistant for site reliability engineers, platform engineers, and Unix-philosophy adherents who want a chat surface in front of their host’s standard toolkit.

Lacuna on GitHub →  ·  Request repo access →

Baobab

private beta · v0

A pan-African and Black-diaspora portal that fuses news, markets, and federated community under an ambient-intelligent layer. Live commodity prices across 29 markets, AI-curated news from 28 diaspora and long-form sources, federated Matrix-backed rooms for every commodity and every African country, a free embedded wallet on Polygon, and a library of Black classical thought you can read in the browser.

The substrate is open and decentralized. The lens is ours. Identity and money live on the chain — users own their wallets, their reputation, their connections. Forums and chat run on Matrix — federated, open source, censorship-resistant. We hold operational state to make the platform quick and quiet; everything load-bearing lives elsewhere so the community cannot be deleted by us.

Six launch languages — English, French, Arabic, Portuguese, Swahili, Hausa — cover most of the continent and the diaspora in their primary tongue. The editorial floor is opportunity-forward; hard news is opt-in.

Go to Baobab →  ·  Early access →  ·  Read the interactive doc →

Gastronomy Graph

roadmap · 2026 Q4

The world of food — ingredients, techniques, lineages, regional schools — as a real graph, not a recipe blog. The same substrate discipline as The Curator: a curated public reference, a per-cook local graph, and a wrapper that admits when it’s guessing.

For the home cook who wants to know why a technique works, for the professional building a menu out of a lineage, for the researcher tracing a dish across centuries. Not another search engine over recipes; a real reference graph.

When it lands: target 2026 Q4. Atlas (the Curator’s reference substrate) is the prototype; the food schema slots in alongside the antique-makers schema once the substrate is generalized.