Founder @OfflineProtocol. Coordination for machines.
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Precisely what we’re solving at Offline Protocol. General intelligence is great for generic tasks, but beyond these basic cloud controlled tasks, agents lack the coordination and environments to access new capabilities that are beyond its cloud reach. This is where we come in.
Worth watching this whole presentation by Pat. This particular slide is why I'm so excited about the next decade. I haven't experienced a bigger gap between capabilities and adoption in my short career.
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Sometimes being a founder means taking a VC call on the hallway floor because your HVAC unit flooded your room and you had to wake up at 8am to remove all your belongings into your living room and there are workers tracking dirt and sawdust all over your home from the loud af power tools they're using to cut open your entire floor while you try to cure your headache from the strong fumes with a $20 uber eats order of chai that spilled into the bag on the way here and for some reason chrome decided to log you out of every single website you use daily and your terminal running 8 different agent sessions crashed and session resume refuses to work and your laptop is overheating but you can't turn the AC on because of all the dust in the apartment and you've already been super sick and experiencing fatique for the last 2 days, but no one likes to talk about this side of starting a company because it's not as sexy
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Every device is more useful when it can work with the devices around it.
Offline Protocol lets machines find each other, securely share data, and request capabilities they don’t have themselves, even without internet. A robot can ask a nearby camera to inspect something. A technician’s device can retrieve equipment history on site. A fleet can share updates locally and sync back to central systems when connectivity returns.
We give developers the infrastructure to build these interactions into their products: identity, discovery, secure communication, reliable delivery, and shared state in one stack. The demo below brings that together: agents authorizing, purchasing, and delivering a real hardware capability entirely over local connections.
Let's go offline.
I just made an agent on my computer pay for an image capture and processing session on a connected hardware device that was authorized to provide this capability by another agent on another device. I accomplished all of this without any internet connections between these devices.
The possibilities this opens up are endless, autonomous vehicles can coordinate with drones for route guidance, connect to sensors to receive weather updates, or coordinate with each other to exchange skills in a swarm. Productivity robots can talk to personal assistants to understand user preferences, or receive outage data from field technicians to perform repairs, all without the need for an active internet connection or expensive backhaul solutions.
Useful intelligence has moved onto devices; autonomous systems are expanding from isolated machines into fleets; and connectivity continues to fragment across Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, cellular, satellite, and specialized radios. Those networks extend reach, but none supplies the shared application contract required to decide who may act, what capability is available, which route should carry the request, how state converges after disconnection, and what evidence proves completion.
Offline Protocol packages the missing contract as one integrated stack and abstracts multiple transports with automatic failover; OfflineID provides device-owned identity that peers can verify locally; Messaging Layer Security protects sessions; serverless discovery lets a device advertise, find, and invoke a capability without DNS or a cloud directory; reliable delivery adds acknowledgment, retry, deduplication, retention, and replay; and the shipped CRDT data layer synchronizes application state through compact deltas and deterministically merges concurrent offline edits.
Our protocol has reached 350,000+ cumulative deployed device instances, with 11,500+ network clusters active in the trailing 30 days, and 12,000+ SDK package installs. Within a month of starting our commercial motion, we've already signed 4 LOIs, 2 paid pilots, 6 more in technical scoping, and have several enterprise level distribution partnerships in negotiations.
I have historically been too quiet and not outspoken enough about our work, a VC recently told me I am too humble about our trajectory and technology, and so for once I want to really share how confident I feel about the progress we're making and the brand new paradigm of machine coordination our technology opens up.
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I just made an agent on my computer pay for an image capture and processing session on a connected hardware device that was authorized to provide this capability by another agent on another device. I accomplished all of this without any internet connections between these devices.
The possibilities this opens up are endless, autonomous vehicles can coordinate with drones for route guidance, connect to sensors to receive weather updates, or coordinate with each other to exchange skills in a swarm. Productivity robots can talk to personal assistants to understand user preferences, or receive outage data from field technicians to perform repairs, all without the need for an active internet connection or expensive backhaul solutions.
Useful intelligence has moved onto devices; autonomous systems are expanding from isolated machines into fleets; and connectivity continues to fragment across Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, cellular, satellite, and specialized radios. Those networks extend reach, but none supplies the shared application contract required to decide who may act, what capability is available, which route should carry the request, how state converges after disconnection, and what evidence proves completion.
Offline Protocol packages the missing contract as one integrated stack and abstracts multiple transports with automatic failover; OfflineID provides device-owned identity that peers can verify locally; Messaging Layer Security protects sessions; serverless discovery lets a device advertise, find, and invoke a capability without DNS or a cloud directory; reliable delivery adds acknowledgment, retry, deduplication, retention, and replay; and the shipped CRDT data layer synchronizes application state through compact deltas and deterministically merges concurrent offline edits.
Our protocol has reached 350,000+ cumulative deployed device instances, with 11,500+ network clusters active in the trailing 30 days, and 12,000+ SDK package installs. Within a month of starting our commercial motion, we've already signed 4 LOIs, 2 paid pilots, 6 more in technical scoping, and have several enterprise level distribution partnerships in negotiations.
I have historically been too quiet and not outspoken enough about our work, a VC recently told me I am too humble about our trajectory and technology, and so for once I want to really share how confident I feel about the progress we're making and the brand new paradigm of machine coordination our technology opens up.
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Cross-machine payments built with @stripe btw.
Cc @jeff_weinstein @segall_max, I think you'll enjoy this
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Looking to connect with people from:
@MongoDB @supabase @balena_io @ZebraTechnology @EMQTech @nvidia @Siemens @Canonical @siliconlabs @HiveMQ @awscloud @Microsoft
Any introductions, tags, reposts will be helpful. Ideally want to connect with someone on product partnerships.
@OfflineProtocol's commercial footprint is growing rapidly and there are some really interesting opportunities I want to bring to technology partners.
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This is a good opportunity to announce IntelligenceMesh by Offline Protocol.
Our stealth offline AI product that lets you install local models to run offline, train your own models with others without internet, build specialized personas for assistance, provides emergency resources tailored to your location, connects you in emergencies to other nearby users over mesh, and a whole lot more coming.
For those who bought our sold out hardware run, this is also where you manage companion devices and inference partners.
IntelligenceMesh is our way to open up an offline network into the endless possibilities of frontier innovation, and it’s FREE forever!
for safety reasons, it’s incredibly important to keep an abliterated local model on your phone. you never know when you’ll be in an emergency with no cell service and need information
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Any tips for fundraising for a company with 350,000 users from 140 countries on $0 cac and organic commercial interest and signed pilots for their infrastructure which is the most robust stack for local coordination among autonomous machines?
Asking for a friend who has no family VC connections and hasn’t spent any time in SF.
Hope this makes it onto VC feeds
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satvik retweeted
The likelihood of #Internet access being shut down at the cable and ISP levels is increasing year by year, including in the #EU and the #US .
It’s better to be prepared in advance.
Your world doesn’t end where the signal does.
Introducing Fernweh V2: a private messenger that works online and off-grid. When the internet disappears, encrypted messages and files move through nearby devices; when it returns, Fernweh seamlessly shifts to an encrypted online relay.
V2 also brings high-quality voice and video calls, private group chats, nearby discovery, device-owned identity, profiles, and a dynamic reputation system, all without a central cloud inbox holding your conversations.
Fernweh V2 is live on iOS and Android. Experience the everywhere messenger.
Download iOS: apps.apple.com/us/app/fernwe…
Download Android: play.google.com/store/apps/d…
Learn more about the technical architecture and features: offlineprotocol.com/blog/fer…
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Very cool.
Your world doesn’t end where the signal does.
Introducing Fernweh V2: a private messenger that works online and off-grid. When the internet disappears, encrypted messages and files move through nearby devices; when it returns, Fernweh seamlessly shifts to an encrypted online relay.
V2 also brings high-quality voice and video calls, private group chats, nearby discovery, device-owned identity, profiles, and a dynamic reputation system, all without a central cloud inbox holding your conversations.
Fernweh V2 is live on iOS and Android. Experience the everywhere messenger.
Download iOS: apps.apple.com/us/app/fernwe…
Download Android: play.google.com/store/apps/d…
Learn more about the technical architecture and features: offlineprotocol.com/blog/fer…
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an incredible amount of work from the entire team.
fernweh v2 took on some genuinely difficult technical problems, and seeing it finally out in the world feels special.
proud of everyone at @OfflineProtocol for making this happen. onwards.
Your world doesn’t end where the signal does.
Introducing Fernweh V2: a private messenger that works online and off-grid. When the internet disappears, encrypted messages and files move through nearby devices; when it returns, Fernweh seamlessly shifts to an encrypted online relay.
V2 also brings high-quality voice and video calls, private group chats, nearby discovery, device-owned identity, profiles, and a dynamic reputation system, all without a central cloud inbox holding your conversations.
Fernweh V2 is live on iOS and Android. Experience the everywhere messenger.
Download iOS: apps.apple.com/us/app/fernwe…
Download Android: play.google.com/store/apps/d…
Learn more about the technical architecture and features: offlineprotocol.com/blog/fer…
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my first piece of work at @OfflineProtocol: shipped 🚢
fernweh is a private messenger app that works when you have an internet connection, and even when you don’t.
if you need help getting started, reach out and i will personally help you get onboarded.
live now, on iOS and android.
Your world doesn’t end where the signal does.
Introducing Fernweh V2: a private messenger that works online and off-grid. When the internet disappears, encrypted messages and files move through nearby devices; when it returns, Fernweh seamlessly shifts to an encrypted online relay.
V2 also brings high-quality voice and video calls, private group chats, nearby discovery, device-owned identity, profiles, and a dynamic reputation system, all without a central cloud inbox holding your conversations.
Fernweh V2 is live on iOS and Android. Experience the everywhere messenger.
Download iOS: apps.apple.com/us/app/fernwe…
Download Android: play.google.com/store/apps/d…
Learn more about the technical architecture and features: offlineprotocol.com/blog/fer…
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Super excited to finally bring this out into the world!
After amazing feedback and validation for V1 over the past year, we set out to build an experience that accommodates your daily life. Now, you don't need to switch between messaging apps everytime the internet disappears.
Just use Fernweh everyday, everywhere.
DM me on Fernweh (@sxtvik) to receive memes and dog pics.
Your world doesn’t end where the signal does.
Introducing Fernweh V2: a private messenger that works online and off-grid. When the internet disappears, encrypted messages and files move through nearby devices; when it returns, Fernweh seamlessly shifts to an encrypted online relay.
V2 also brings high-quality voice and video calls, private group chats, nearby discovery, device-owned identity, profiles, and a dynamic reputation system, all without a central cloud inbox holding your conversations.
Fernweh V2 is live on iOS and Android. Experience the everywhere messenger.
Download iOS: apps.apple.com/us/app/fernwe…
Download Android: play.google.com/store/apps/d…
Learn more about the technical architecture and features: offlineprotocol.com/blog/fer…
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Your world doesn’t end where the signal does.
Introducing Fernweh V2: a private messenger that works online and off-grid. When the internet disappears, encrypted messages and files move through nearby devices; when it returns, Fernweh seamlessly shifts to an encrypted online relay.
V2 also brings high-quality voice and video calls, private group chats, nearby discovery, device-owned identity, profiles, and a dynamic reputation system, all without a central cloud inbox holding your conversations.
Fernweh V2 is live on iOS and Android. Experience the everywhere messenger.
Download iOS: apps.apple.com/us/app/fernwe…
Download Android: play.google.com/store/apps/d…
Learn more about the technical architecture and features: offlineprotocol.com/blog/fer…
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Hardware is difficult.
In March I ran some experiments on our SDK, it worked, and people wanted to own a version of it.
I’d never touched hardware before, never made a Shopify store before, never sold physical products before, truthfully I didn’t even know how to ship packages.
Over the last 5 months we built an incredible app focused on offline AI, local emergency resources, resilient connectivity, and community sovereignty, all supported by this tiny device.
On Monday, I finished mailing out the last batch of the 150 orders we received, and this was just the beginning because over the next 5 months we are committed to providing truly magical implementations of local and offline AI, in a way that’s never been seen before.
It is fun to try new things.
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Making our Mesh SDK one of the most robust and dynamic networking stacks has always been a huge part of our mission.
Enabling transport switching to include a radio provider in Reticulum and decentralized internet-based relays via Nostr helps us in supporting many new use cases!
Not every form of disconnection looks the same. Sometimes there is no conventional network at all. Devices are separated by kilometers, infrastructure is damaged or absent, and short-range radios cannot close the distance. Other times, internet access exists, but the available route is filtered, fragile, centrally observable, or dependent on infrastructure the application does not control.
We added Reticulum and Nostr to our Mesh SDK to address both conditions.
Reticulum extends Offline Protocol into long-range and infrastructure-sparse environments through LoRa, serial, TCP, UDP, I2P, and other interfaces. Nostr adds a decentralized relay path across reachable internet infrastructure without requiring every application to depend on one central endpoint.
Together with Bluetooth LE, Wi-Fi Direct, and internet transport, applications now have five network paths behind one coordination layer for identity, routing, reliability, security, service discovery, and telemetry.
This infrastructure serves the systems being deployed today, but it is also built for what comes next. Agents, robots, drones, vehicles, sensors, and on-device models will need to discover, authenticate, exchange data, and coordinate across networks that change underneath them.
Read the technical deep dive: offlineprotocol.com/blog/two…
Explore the open source SDK: github.com/Offline-Protocol/…
We are also opening a limited number of design-partner engagements for teams building with long-range radios, decentralized relays, remote telemetry, field systems, and bandwidth-constrained infrastructure: offlineprotocol.com/contact
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we just open sourced our mesh sdk - the first developer product coming out of the Offline Protocol infra stack.
it lets you build apps that work without an internet connection, without having to deal with the painful nuances of native mobile networking or figure out and configure different transports yourself.
really excited to see what people build with it. 🫡
A year ago, Offline Protocol was a thesis: software should not stop working when the internet disappears.
Currently, that thesis runs across 350,000+ devices in 80+ countries and 10,000+ active mesh clusters. Our SDK has crossed 9,000 downloads this year and now supports deployment paths across iOS, Android, Linux, macOS, and Windows.
Today, we are open sourcing the Mesh SDK behind it.
This is infrastructure for the present, but also for what comes next. As agents, robots, drones, vehicles, sensors, and on-device models multiply, billions of new peers will need to discover, verify, communicate, and coordinate without routing every local interaction through the cloud.
The disconnected edge needs a programmable peer layer for identity, privacy, transport, trust, and coordination. Offline Protocol is that layer, and now our infrastructure is open.
Read the full announcement: offlineprotocol.com/blog/ope…
Explore the SDK: github.com/Offline-Protocol/…
For companies looking to build with us, we are opening scoped design-partner evaluations for teams building mobile applications, wallets, logistics systems, remote telemetry, industrial devices, DePIN hardware, and bandwidth-constrained infrastructure. Reach out here: offlineprotocol.com/contact
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