Merely LLC · Ashland, Kentucky

Tools for people who are their own infrastructure.

We build local-first software, graph-shaped web tools, and community-owned radio systems. The work is open, inspectable, and made to keep working on your own terms.

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community radio

Retinue · field status

Radios that work when the towers do not.

Small LoRa radios relay encrypted messages device to device without cell towers, internet service, or a monthly bill. Three units are exchanging data on the workbench today. The next field target is a ten-site FIVCO pilot.

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radios on air: 3
mesh standards: 3
unit cost: ~ a tank of gas
monthly bill: none

what we build

Retinue

Digital-radio transport: mesh wireless standards today, with a broad hardware base as the destination.

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Turnstone

A graph-shaped browser: pages, media, and notes live as nodes you can relate, arrange, and revisit.

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Mere

The modular graph-browser library for graph truth, arrangement, memory, retrieval, identity, and peer layers.

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Genet

A Servo-derived, data-oriented web engine family for rendering web content inside Merely applications.

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working principle

Your tools should explain themselves, preserve your data, and remain useful when somebody else's service is unavailable.