Company
Meet the Edgibles.
We care about this problem. The asymmetric power of big tech has always worried us, and putting data and software back in the hands of ordinary people and small businesses is what drives us. We build what we use: this website, the cards catalog and our own test machines all run on Edgible.
Stefano Picozzi
Co-founder and CEO
Twenty years in senior leadership roles at Netscape, BEA Systems (Oracle) and Red Hat, then CTO of a startup that is now an established business. Startup programs at Antler and the University of Adelaide (ThinkLab). Co-author of DevOps with OpenShift (O'Reilly). MBA and a mathematical statistics degree, with postgraduate study in IT and behavioural economics.
Jackson Hirst
Co-founder and CTO
Lead Cloud Engineer at a circular-economy startup and Google Cloud Certified Data Engineer. Startup programs at the University of Sydney (Incubate ProtoX) and the University of Adelaide (ThinkLab). A sugar cane farmer, he also builds agtech to optimise how a farm is run. Bachelor of Advanced Computing and Bachelor of Commerce.
Why what we do matters
Why. How. What.
Why
Keep your data close
The more an agent knows about us, the more useful it is. That data should stay close to us, not in someone else's cloud.
How
Host your own way
On a spare computer, a home server, a small cloud machine, in whatever way suits you. Edgible makes any of them safely reachable.
What
Self-hosted private AI
Your agents, models and apps on your own machines, with an AI that sets them up and Edgible that keeps them safe.
Your data's coming home.
For investors
A billion agents.A trillion apps.*
We are entering a world where the way people and companies use computing changes for good. Software stops being something you buy and starts being something you ask for: highly customised, bespoke, targeted apps, built for "free" by an AI, for one person, one team or one afternoon.
Every one of those apps, and every agent that uses them, works only by knowing us: our files, our habits, our clients, our children. The question that decides everything is where all of that lives. Edgible is the answer that keeps it with you.
The world we're entering
The easy place to run it all is someone else's cloud.
When software costs almost nothing to make, the scarce thing is trust. Agents only work well when they know us, and today the easy way to run them is a big platform's cloud, where every memory, record and question becomes data held, and often used, by someone else.
People and companies will want the other option: the same convenience, with the data on machines they control. That option has to be safe, easy and looked after, or it will stay a hobby. That is the market we are building for.
What changed is who can run it. Self-hosting used to mean reading documentation, wrestling with servers and certificates, and knowing what to do when it broke. Building Edgible's own playbooks, cards and tests, we've watched a good AI assistant take over most of that: it picks the app, sets it up, asks before anything risky, and explains what happened. What was an opaque craft is now within reach of anyone with a decent AI tool.
How people use it
Three ways in.
Years, weeks or minutes: your data stays home every time.
Stays for years
The keeper
A safe home
The apps you live with. Set up once, used every day, and easy to hand over when someone steps down.
Stays for weeks
The guest
A guest room, with a check-out date
Apps with a job to do and an end in sight. Run one for as long as it's needed, then keep what matters and clear out the rest.
Stays for minutes
The job
A clean room
Soon, one-off work over sensitive files, done on your own machine. Data in, results out, and nothing left behind.
What exists today
An open catalog that runs on Edgible itself.
We built the front door in the open: a growing library of tested, self-hosted apps (cards), the card-kit that tests and publishes them, and an AI skill that turns a person's need into a running app. All of it is free and public, and every app ends with the same step: publish with Edgible. That makes the catalog our engine for demand, and a steady source of what to build next.
What makes it different
Getting reachable is the easy part. Trust is the hard part.
Anyone can make a machine reachable. People hand over their data to the ones they can trust to keep it safe and keep it running.
Tested
Not promised
Every app in the catalog is tested end to end, and the results are public.
Guided
AI sets it up
A person describes what they need; the AI picks a tested app and sets it up safely, so you don't have to be technical.
Looked after
With proof
Backups you have actually restored, health checks and upgrades, so it keeps running.
Each tested app makes the next person's setup easier, and each setup makes the catalog better. That loop is the part that is hard to copy.
What compounds
Distribution
AI reaches for us by default
Our recipes are written for AI, and we're measuring how well each assistant follows them. Every AI that learns them sends people our way.
Evidence
Proof that builds up
Every week of testing on real machines adds to a record nobody can fake, and nobody can fast-forward.
Network
Machines and people
Organisations, shared machines and recipes people share back. Each member makes it more useful for the next.
Software is getting cheap. Trust isn't. That's the part we're building.
How we earn
Free to start. Paid for peace of mind.
A standard freemium model. The apps stay free; we charge for looking after them. Small and mid-sized businesses are the core of our revenue.
Free
Get going
- The open catalog and the AI-guided setup
- A starter allowance of apps on your own machine
- Try it safely, then move to a machine that stays on
Individuals
Looked after
- Managed backups with restore drills
- Monitoring, security checks and update notices
- More apps and more machines
Teams
Handed over
- Shared access and handover when someone steps down
- Managed off-site storage and one-click restore
- Support for clubs, small firms and clinics
Why a business pays: it runs on a few tools it cannot lose, has no IT team, and already pays for hosted versions. Having them backed up, watched and handed over when someone leaves is worth more than the fee, and so is keeping client data on its own machines. Tiers and what sits in each are a direction, not a price list.
Let's talk.
Whether you'd like to run Edgible, work with us, or invest in what comes after the cloud-first era, we would like to hear from you.
Get in touch* Where we see computing heading, not a count of today. Most of these apps will be used once and thrown away; the ones worth keeping are the ones that hold our data.