Commonlight Studio
Active / near completion
Working name for the local-first AI launchpad for authors, artists, causes, and creators. Formerly Solarpunk Press App.
Solarpunk Open Source FleetBIG C TECHNOLOGICAL RISK REGISTER
The book is the map. These are the tools after last orders.Twenty-three unlicensed machines that make dependence look optional.
Twenty-three proposals for practical, local-first technology that is private, repairable, cooperative, and useful in the real world.A catalogue of private, repairable, cooperatively governed tools. Each one risks teaching the public that a broken thing can be mended rather than replaced on a schedule we set. Do you know what that does to a quarterly forecast?
Owner-supplied AI Solartime visualisation — fictional, not a portrait or photograph.
01Available now
Commonlight Studio — the Solarpunk Press App, grown up and renamed.
01In development
SolarTraderBot is being developed with a separate safety and regulatory review before public claims or links.
21Future tools
Ideas are documented honestly as proposals, not presented as working products.
The catalogue
Ideas, in the open.
Some are active, some are being built, and most are proposals. Filter the fleet to see which is which.
Showing all 23 fleet ideas.
The Sovereign Shield
Concept
A private justice and evidence organiser for people facing abuse, tenancy fights, or wage theft.
Solarpunk Sentinel
Concept
A business guardian that audits contracts, leases, insurance gaps, and compliance traps.
Solarpunk Spore
Concept
A grassroots funding navigator for grants, civic money, and mutual-aid proposals.
Solarpunk Common-Wealth
Concept
A peer-to-peer mutual credit exchange for local services, rooms, tools, and care.
SolarTraderBot
In development
An ethical trading and profit-routing engine for personal or cooperative basic income.
Solarpunk Hearth
Concept
An offline homestead, repair, and resilience coach for flats, gardens, and off-grid patches.
Decentrasound
Concept
An anti-Spotify cooperative for direct artist-listener distribution and local music discovery.
Solarpunk Steer
Concept
A peer-to-peer transit mesh for rides, cargo, school runs, and community deliveries.
Solarpunk Stay
Concept
A money-free hospitality and house-sitting exchange built on trust and mutual credit.
Solarpunk Scribe
Concept
A calm, attention-free social journal for local updates without algorithmic bait.
The Local-Seeker
Concept
An offline-first search router that checks local knowledge before the ad web.
Solarpunk Seedbank
Concept
A genetic commons for seed libraries, germination logs, and neighbourhood exchange.
Coop-OS
Concept
A worker-cooperative operating system for proposals, tasks, consensus, and fair payouts.
Solarpunk Repair
Concept
A right-to-repair diagnostic shield for appliances, bikes, tools, and off-grid gear.
Solarpunk Apothecary
Concept
A safe local herbalist guide with interaction checks and offline remedy knowledge.
Solarpunk Scythe
Concept
A gleaning and harvest matcher for neglected fruit, surplus crops, and food routes.
Solarpunk Scholar
Concept
A resilient offline tutor and library node for low-bandwidth communities.
Solarpunk Salvage
Concept
An upcycling blueprint engine that turns scraps into useful builds.
Air-Shield
Concept
A decentralised air-quality sensor mesh for smoke, pollution, and local warnings.
Solarpunk Water
Concept
A rainwater and greywater architect for homes, gardens, and neighbourhood patches.
Solarpunk Souk
Concept
A maker-to-neighbour bazaar that replaces Amazon with local trade and fair exchange.
Solarpunk Aegis
Concept
A digital sovereignty auditor for data-broker deletion and privacy migration.