Before you continue...

CARLOS is an AI-enabled project, and all CARLOS software to date has been entirely produced using a combination of LLM-based coding products from Anthropic, OpenAI, and open-weight alternatives. Whilst CARLOS represents an approach to apply these products toward new standards of openness and release of corporate ownership of internet-based software and data, we realise that there are folks for whom use of these products is unacceptable. With that said, if folks will continue to use AI to produce software, our mission is to show that AI unlocks ways to produce better software for everyone.

One of the principles behind the project is full disclosure of AI use, and AI-written language, starting here.

A new software infrastructure layer for the web

Fast, secure web apps: hosted, hybrid, or on-prem. Lower costs, own your data, and enjoy performant apps on modern or older hardware. With or without AI.

Use the apps Build on it

The status quo with web software is pretty grim: centralised, rent-seeking, bloated software that with the advent of AI seems to be getting worse. CARLOS asks the question: what if AI could make software better for everyone, whether they choose to use it or not?

CARLOS attempts to make impossible things possible and hard things easy:

Uncompromising flexibility for app builders, a new level of control for end-users.

I WANT TO USE CARLOS APPS

Own the software you use.

Chat, mail, office, code hosting. Yours to run, cloud or self-hosted.

Show me the apps I WANT TO BUILD CARLOS APPS

Start shipping better, faster

Ship full-stack web apps that deploy in seconds to anyone anywhere

Show me how
FOR PEOPLE WHO USE SOFTWARE

The apps

Each one is an instance your team owns. Same app wherever it runs.

The full gallery, with goals and status

How to get them

Cloud, hybrid, or on-prem: it's all the same to CARLOS

Hosted, today

Sign in to Carloku and switch on the apps your team needs. Nothing to install.

FIRST STOP Go to carloku.com

Your own box, when you want it

One static binary, a bucket and DNS. Take the same apps home with you.

SELF-HOSTED How the platform works

For your whole company

Why an organisation would run on CARLOS, in eighteen slides.

THE PITCH use.carlosframework.com

Know what a host can see

Every app carries a trust class, S to C, a licence class, L1 to L5, and three remix flags. Publish the database and see what leaks.

SA1A2A/pubBC

The trust classes, explained

FOR PEOPLE WHO BUILD SOFTWARE

Build on it

Six simple promises, one shape for every app, and an agent that already knows the way.

Start a new app

Go from zero to your big idea. Don't get bogged down with architecture that should be easy

Get started

Ship your product on it

Hosted and customer-run deployments from one codebase. One instance per customer. All out of the box.

Why you would migrate your product

The six letters in full · How the platform works · The skills on GitHub