Kenneth Eversole is co-founder and CEO of OpsCompanion, the AI security company behind Standpipe — the on-device control layer for AI. Writing about AI security, sovereign intelligence, and infrastructure.
TL;DR: my current stack Two machines. An M4 MacBook Pro (24GB) for work, and an always-on Mac mini for background automations. Local model is Gemma4-E2B-IT, run through Ollama on each machine. Cloud when I need more power: GLM 5.2 for coding, Gemini Flash for writing, DeepSeek V4 Flash for general automations, reached through OpenRouter. A custom router (slowly becoming a product called Standpipe)…
I have been constantly thinking about what it means for individuals and companies to be able to independently use AI models. Especially specific ones, ones where they are extremely personalized, because they can access all your personal data, but in a safe way. When I think of the term, I come back to "sovereign," but we are looking over the edge of the AI field, where "Sovereign AI" is only…
AI agents are selfish. I use that word deliberately because I want to invoke something human, something you can feel rather than just analyze. When a little kid won't share their cookies. They're not trying to be malicious; they just don't know the importance of sharing yet. Right now, every agent stack in production resembles that kid. Each one is designed to perform a specific…
There's an old study, maybe from Harvard, about team sizing. Eighty percent of the work will be done by twenty percent of the team. Whittle a team of ten down to five, and one person will carry most of it. For some reason, this ratio holds across nearly everything. When it comes to software, though, we have a strange inverse situation. The twenty percent gets enormous amounts of attention.…
A few weeks ago I wrote that we automated everything except knowing what's going on . Unforuntly it looks like 2026 is going to be the year of the slop wars instead of the year we get AGI. AI made it cheap to build software. It did not make it cheap to own. Anyone can generate the mvp now. The bill shows up later: when the integration breaks, when it touches real data, when finance depends on…
Software is being democratized. The cost of building just collapsed in a way most people haven't fully processed yet. Anyone with an idea and access to an AI agent can ship a product. What used to take a team of twenty and six months now takes one person and a weekend. That's not hype. It's happening right now, everywhere, all at once. But here's what nobody's talking…
The day before Christmas Eve, a venture capitalist I genuinely liked told us no. It came after months of conversations, re-engagements, the kind of sustained back-and-forth where you start to confuse interest with commitment. I sat down at my dining room table, the same one where Hannah and I eat dinner and pretend to be adults who own a house, and I cried. Not a noble cry. The broken kind, the…
This is the start of something fun, rewarding, and is 100% an experiment technically and personally