What G8KEPR Is, in Plain English
The security startup I build on nights and weekends, explained without the jargon: what it guards, how it does it, and where it runs.
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Why It Runs in Your VPC (and Nothing Leaves)
G8KEPR is self-hosted by design: deployed with Helm or Terraform, sitting in your request path, sending zero bytes out and charging nothing per token. Here's the reasoning.
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Building a Security Startup by Myself
One founder, a Delaware C-Corp, evenings and weekends, and a codebase with more lines of tests than lines of code. Here's what that ratio says about how I build.
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From Do-Everything Platform to Correlation Engine
G8KEPR started as an AI security platform that tried to do everything. In September 2026 I narrowed it to the one thing that's actually different, and kept most of what I'd built.
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Open Source for About a Day
On September 9 I decided G8KEPR would be open source under Apache-2.0. On September 10 I changed my mind. Both days had good arguments.
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A Scorecard Instead of a Vanity Metric
How I keep score on G8KEPR with a feature scorecard graded 0 to 10, why it leaves out anything about clients or partners, and the P0-P4 lists that decide what I work on next.
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