How it was built

Built in order.

Hardware first, then one gateway, then the software. Built by DK, step by step, by rules that held the whole way.

  1. 01The hardware
  2. 02One gateway
  3. 03The software
  4. 04The rules
Follow the line.

01 — The hardware

Five machines. Four chip makers. One job each.

  1. NVIDIA

    01

    DGX Spark

    Hosts the models

  2. AMD

    02

    Strix Halo

    Makes images and video

  3. Intel

    03

    NUC

    Handles voice

  4. Apple

    04

    Mac mini M4 Pro

    Runs the AI gateway and control plane

  5. Apple

    05

    Mac mini M6

    The dev server

No machine does two jobs.

02 — One gateway

Switched off on purpose.

Every app gets its own key, with its own model list and budget.

A small relay on each machine falls back straight to the provider if the gateway is down.

Gateway Provider A relay on each machine
Gateway off
69seconds
Calls answered
156 of 156
By the backup path
58
Relays that switched back by themselves
Every one

Nobody touched anything.

03 — The software · October 2026

Twelve days on the line.

Built by DK with an AI pair programmer, Claude Code.

Before it

SketchMotion

A Claude-powered animation studio. It taught the lessons.

2026

Dmotion begins.

An AI animation and explainer-video studio.

  • 160 commits
  • about 20,700 lines
  • 10 working days

2026

LabScope begins.

The lab's own monitor: agentless and read-only.

  • 45 commits
  • about 18,400 lines
  • 4 days

2026

Dpages v0.1.

Prompt to animated websites, decks and infographics.

  • 55 commits in its first two days

2026

This site.

Made with Dpages, page by page, from a fact sheet of real LabScope numbers.

2026

Worldwide.

The site goes live and starts refreshing its own numbers every night at 23:00.

23:00

Every night · still running

04 — The rules it was built by

Seven rules. None of them bent.

  1. Nothing listens on the internet

    Every server dials out.

    0ports open to the internet

  2. Everything behind single sign-on

    No app stands on its own login.

  3. Every app has its own key

    Its own models, its own budget.

  4. Local first

    36%of the last 30 days' AI tokens were served by models in the lab.

  5. Look, never touch

    The monitor is read-only and installs nothing.

  6. Prompts stay private

    Prompts and answers are never stored by the monitoring.

  7. Measured, never made up

    Every number on this site is measured.

Two studios. One monitor. One site.

Under two weeks.

15 Oct 2026 → 27 Oct 2026Built by DK