Meet the Founders
Building the future of private, on-premise AI for small businesses.
Kyle – Founder & Lead Developer
Building the future of private, on-premise AI for small businesses.
I'm Kyle, the founder of PineCompute. My path to AI started unconventionally: studying neuroscience at Boston University, I became obsessed with how brains retrieve information—how context triggers memory, how associations form, how decision-making actually works. That curiosity shaped everything that came after.
When I started building AI systems, I realized that retrieval-augmented generation wasn't just clever engineering—it was mimicking how human memory actually functions. And I realized something else: if I understand how minds work, I can build AI that respects how businesses work. So I built locally. No cloud vendor lock-in. No external dependencies. Just PrivateGPT, Ollama, and a 16GB Linux PC, solving real problems.
Over the years I've built everything from trading systems to survival apps to multiplayer games. But every single project taught me the same lesson: the best AI is the AI you control. Not the AI you rent from a vendor. The AI that lives on your hardware, touches only your data, and answers to you.
Today, alongside co-founder David Rainear, I'm building PineCompute Core and other PineCompute—products that turn your private files into an expert assistant that never leaves your server. Because privacy isn't a premium feature. It's a foundation.
This isn't just another AI company. We're building something different: a philosophy where privacy, sovereignty, and intelligence coexist. Where you don't have to sacrifice control to get superpowers.
David Rainear brings complementary expertise to PineCompute as co-founder, working alongside Kyle to shape the company's strategic direction and product vision. Together, we're building solutions that give small businesses the AI superpowers that large enterprises take for granted—but without the vendor lock-in or privacy compromises.
A detailed profile for David is coming soon. For now, reach out if you'd like to connect with our full founding team.
Partnering with David Rainear to build PineCompute Core an open-source, fully on-premise "company brain" for small businesses. Leading technical development of PineHealth and other privacy-first AI products that run entirely on local hardware.
Dove deep into local AI deployment, building systems with PrivateGPT, Ollama, and vector databases. Created multiplayer games, crypto trading bots, and health AI prototypes—all while learning to bridge neuroscience insights with practical software engineering.
Specialized in deploying AI models locally using open-source tools. Optimized Linux environments for low-resource AI inference, experimented with vector databases (ChromaDB, FAISS), and built Gradio interfaces for offline AI applications.
Studied how biological neural networks process and retrieve information. This foundational understanding of memory, context, and association became the conceptual blueprint for building AI systems that augment human decision-making.
Open-source "company brain" that turns private files (PDFs, Drive folders, emails) into an expert LLM assistant. Fully on-premise with zero cloud dependencies—built on PrivateGPT backbone with custom interfaces.
Medical AI system built on PrivateGPT that processes medical textbooks and provides health consultations. All data stays on local hardware—perfect for healthcare orgs concerned about HIPAA compliance.
Our Research Continues.
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