$ whoami
5L Labs — commercial privacy-first research, est. 2023 (NYC)
$ cat mission.txt
Advancing Technology for Humans and Bots with Privacy in mind.
$ ls areas/
self-hosted-iot/ home-ml-iot/ applied-ai/ frontier/
$ ./hire-us --consulting ▊
INDEX OF /·FILTER:
| DATE | TYPE | AREA | TITLE | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-02-23 | writing | frontier | Learning about learning? | |
| 2026-02-18 | writing | home-ml-iot | GarageCam Lives! ExecuTorch on RPi 5 | |
| 2025-12-10 | writing | frontier | Time Decay of Information | |
| 2025-12-01 | writing | self-hosted-iot | NetworkManager and VPN Tunneling | |
| 2025-11-16 | writing | home-ml-iot | Thoughts on Jarvis 2.0 | |
| 2025-10-19 | writing | self-hosted-iot | Overlord - Home Network Kill Switch | |
| 2025-09-15 | writing | home-ml-iot | Continued Adventures in CheapML for IoT |
~/projects
recruiter rankings
The industry standard for evaluating and ranking recruitment firms based on verified performance and data.
open embeddings
A community-driven standard and registry for high-quality, open-source vector embeddings for AI applications.
overlord network kill switch
A hardware-independent network control system designed for immediate and complete network isolation in commercial environments.
~/consulting
We take on a small number of engagements each quarter.
Private ML systems, on-device inference, and IoT architecture audits.
CURRENT AVAILABILITY: Q3 2026
./inquire →