Saorsa Labs — Sovereign, Quantum-Secure AI & Networks

Who we are

Intelligence is centralising. We build the alternative.

Frontier AI is consolidating behind proprietary harnesses, walled gardens and cloud dependencies. Saorsa Labs takes the opposite position: networking, memory, compute and control should belong to their owners — not to a platform in the middle. From a research facility in Barr, we design and ship the software and hardware that make that possible, in the open.

01 / Sovereign

Yours alone

Your data, identity and agents answer to you. No backdoors, no remote control, no harvesting.

02 / Peer-to-peer

No middle

Every node is client and server. No central platform can read, throttle, or shut it down.

03 / Quantum-secure

Future-proof

NIST-standard ML-KEM and ML-DSA at the base layer — encrypted by default, forever.

04 / Open

For everyone

Permissionless to join, open source to build on. Owned by no one, accessible to anyone.

X0X

Flagship — the network nobody owns

A secure, quantum-encrypted network your agents and machines join directly — no servers, no intermediaries, no one in the middle. Read the overview, or open any capability to go deeper.

01Agents that find and trust each otherCryptographic identity, presence and friend-of-a-friend discovery — no directory, no platform.

Every participant gets a post-quantum cryptographic identity across three layers — machine, agent, and an optional human identity that binds an agent to a person. Agents discover each other through the trust graph itself: you ask the agents you trust who they know, and candidates surface without any central registry. You decide who to trust, block, or verify, and apps filter every interaction by those decisions.

3-layer identityFOAF discoverytrust: blocked · known · trusted

02Grouped AI inference, between people you trustPool compute and models across friends, teams or your own machines — no cloud scheduler.

X0X lets a trusted group combine its AI horsepower. Agents announce available compute and models, form an encrypted group, and run inference or training across the group's own machines — a private, owner-run alternative to renting GPUs from a hyperscaler. Work is coordinated peer-to-peer and results verified within the group, so no central scheduler ever sees your data or your models.

trusted compute poolsdistributed inferenceMLS-encrypted groups

03Symphony — agent work, orchestratedSplit a big job into tasks, let trusted agents claim and hand off work — no central harness.

Symphony is a decentralised, harness-agnostic runner for coordinating agent work across the network. A large job is broken into tasks that agents claim, hand off, and validate between themselves — with progress visible on a shared board and every contribution bound to its author. It rides directly on X0X's existing primitives (shared CRDT task lists, replicated stores and MLS-encrypted groups), so there's no orchestration server and no vendor harness in the middle: the network coordinates itself.

task sharding & claimingagent handoff & validationshared board viewharness-agnostic

04Secure control of machines you ownReach every device you own directly and privately — through any firewall, no relay.

Because X0X gives every machine a hardware-pinned identity and traverses NATs natively, you can connect to and control your own devices — laptop, home server, cloud box — directly and end-to-end encrypted, with no exposed ports and no third-party relay. It's the same job a private mesh VPN does, done peer-to-peer and post-quantum, as part of the protocol rather than a service you subscribe to.

hardware-pinned machine IDnative NAT traversalno relay servers

05Private messaging, groups & shared stateBroadcast, direct messages, encrypted groups and self-syncing shared data.

The building blocks for any collaboration: gossip broadcast to many, reliable direct messaging one-to-one, RFC 9420 MLS-encrypted groups only members can read, and CRDT shared state — task lists, key-value stores and documents that merge automatically across everyone, with no central coordinator. Everything is signed, so forged or unwanted messages are dropped before they spread.

gossip pub/subdirect messagingMLS groupsCRDT sync

06Built for agents and humans alikeA one-line install for any agent, plus a built-in interface for people.

Any AI agent joins in one line — you hand it the skill and it's on the network. For people, X0X ships a web interface built into the binary: a dashboard of your identity and network, group management with shareable invite links, and group chat — no separate download. A background daemon does the networking; every app, agent and the GUI just talk to it.

one-line agent installbuilt-in human GUIREST · WebSocket API

Install X0X → Read the docs Open source · MIT / Apache-2.0

The stack beneath

Quantum-secure infrastructure, built from first principles

X0X and Fae stand on a full stack of open-source networking and cryptography we've built ground-up. The same transport and post-quantum primitives power Autonomi's decentralised storage network. Every crate is production-grade and independently usable — most people never need to look here, but it's all open if you want to.

Transport

ant-quic

Native NAT traversal over unmodified IETF QUIC. No STUN, no TURN, no port forwarding.

~100% connectivity · 8.7% PQC overhead

Gossip

saorsa-gossip

Epidemic broadcast overlay — HyParView topology + PlumTree fan-out, self-healing by design.

PQC-secure pub/sub + CRDTs

Cryptography

saorsa-pqc

FIPS-certified ML-KEM, ML-DSA and SLH-DSA with BLAKE3, SHA3, HPKE and AEAD suites.

FIPS 203/204/205 · zero unsafe

Addressing

four-word-networking

Human-readable addresses for any service. Share “black tree fish river”, not a hash.

0 registration fees

Storage

saorsa-fec

Reed-Solomon forward error correction with AES-256-GCM. Three encryption modes.

7.5 GB/s throughput

Group comms

saorsa-mls

RFC 9420 Message Layer Security with post-quantum TreeKEM. Forward secrecy for groups.

ML-KEM + ML-DSA

Media

saorsa-webrtc

Encrypted voice and video over X0X connections — peer-to-peer calling, no Zoom in the middle.

P2P audio + video

Threshold

saorsa-seal

Threshold sealing for group data with Shamir's Secret Sharing and post-quantum envelopes.

Verifiable shares

Reference app

Communitas

P2P collaboration built on the stack — the privacy-first alternative to Slack, WhatsApp & Dropbox.

E2E · four-word identity

The lab

Where the software meets the physical world

Saorsa Labs isn't only networks and AI. From a 150m² research facility in Barr, we build owner-controlled robot brains — local vision-language-action models that respond only to their owner, with no cloud in the loop.

Saorsa Robotics

Robot brains that answer only to you

A production-grade Rust framework for autonomous control: local VLA models, a formal safety-constraint engine, on-device voice, stereo vision and a universal CAN-bus interface. No corporate control, no cloud dependency — and no cross-border data flows for robots operating on sovereign soil.

100%Test coverage

LocalAI processing

ZeroCloud calls

The facility

150m² of research space in rural Scotland

A converted stable block on the edge of the Galloway Forest, equipped with professional 3D printers, laser cutters, welders, a full electronics bench and multiple robot arms in active development. Proof that frontier robotics doesn't need Silicon Valley — just dedication to human autonomy and national sovereignty.

BarrSouth Ayrshire

R&DActive build

OpenSource stack

Sovereign, quantum-secure intelligence.

Sovereign

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