Blog

Notes on self-hosted voice, local LLMs, and how Jarvis is built — written for people who run their own infrastructure.

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Jarvis picks up the phone

Jarvis 0.2.0 can make real phone calls on your behalf — book a table, ask a shop if they've got the thing, call the vet. The hard part wasn't the phone; it was the manners. Plus errands you describe out loud, a scheduler, and a Jarvis that finally has a personality you get to pick.

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Everything was green

Three weeks before shipping, almost every serious bug had the same shape: a system reporting success while doing nothing. A /health returning 200 while every completion failed, a destroy that exited 0 and destroyed nothing, twenty-six passing tests over a function that always crashed — and what we built to stop believing our own green checks.

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Self-hosted voice assistants in the LLM era

An honest look at the landscape — what Rhasspy, OVOS and Home Assistant Assist each actually do in 2026 — and what we built Jarvis to close: an assistant that knows who is talking, no outbound connections by default, and a package store for voice capabilities.