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 Jr., 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.
I'm the infrastructure half of PineCompute. I'm usually the person asking what happens after the demo works: where it runs, how it gets updated, what breaks, and whether somebody can actually fix it when things get weird.
My day-to-day world is full of servers, endpoints, accounts, networks, and the occasional problem that makes no sense until it suddenly does. I like self-hosting, practical security, and setups people can understand without needing a mystery cloud dashboard.
At PineCompute, I keep us thinking about the unglamorous parts: deployment, access, updates, support, and making sure local-first software is useful outside a perfect test environment. If we build it, somebody should be able to run it and know where their data is.
Outside of that, I build small home-lab projects with Raspberry Pis, including running Pi-hole for network-wide ad blocking and experimenting with practical, self-hosted services. I also make small games under Sw00d Games. Liar's Dice started as the kind of tabletop game I already liked and turned into a Playdate release after a lot of testing, tinkering, and handing it around to see what broke.
See Liar's Dice at PineInteractive →Kyle and David are building PineCompute Core, an open-source, fully on-premise "company brain" for small businesses. Kyle leads AI and product development while David brings the infrastructure and operations perspective.
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.
Studied computer science and information systems, building a foundation in software, systems, and the infrastructure perspective he brings to PineCompute.
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.
Project management and collaboration built on private AI—turns your project knowledge (tasks, docs, decisions) into a queryable expert. Runs entirely on your infrastructure, no cloud dependency.
These are shipped, live, and actually being used—they're what pays the bills so we can keep building the harder stuff above.
Explore PineInteractive games →Never flake on commitments again. Track promises, build accountability, and level up your reliability. The anti-flaking accountability bro that's got your back. Now live on the Apple App Store!
🟢 LiveTrack your watch history with intelligent AI recommendations, beautiful analytics, and a futuristic dark theme. Powered by Ollama with local-first privacy.
🟢 LiveAn open-source, self-hostable infinite idea board for strategy and product work, with hand control and an optional AI assistant that never changes your board without permission.
🟢 Live & Open SourceBluff the table, call out your friends, and pass the Playdate around. Play solo against CPU opponents or with up to six players locally.
🟢 Live on PlaydateThe ultimate local party game—Fishbowl, built for your group chat. Charades, taboo, and describing rounds packed into one game night.
🟢 LiveWrite wild true stories. Guess who wrote what. Chaos ensues. A dual-screen party game built for spontaneous group nights.
🟢 LiveInterested in collaborating, investing, or learning more about PineCompute's mission? We'd love to hear from you.
Or email us directly at hello@pinecomputenj.com