A bespoke aluminum private AI computer in a warm modern interior

A private technology practice

Technology,
made entirely yours.

Private AI. Custom computers.
Thoughtful automation.

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Why tsugi

The best technology should feel less like a product and more like it belongs to you.

tsugi.works designs and builds private technology for people, families, and companies who want more than whatever came in the box.

We bring hardware, software, AI, automation, and security together into systems that are unusually capable—and unusually personal.

What we make

One practice. Six ways in.

01

Private AI

Personal intelligence that works with your knowledge, your tools, and your rules—running privately at home or inside your company.

Local modelsPrivate knowledgePersonal agents

02

Custom computing

Quiet, capable machines built for a particular purpose: home AI, creative work, family archives, secure infrastructure, or something new.

Home serversWorkstationsPurpose-built devices

03

Connected homes

Networking, media, lighting, access, and control systems designed as one calm whole—not a drawer full of competing apps.

NetworksSmart homeMedia systems

04

Automation

The repetitive digital work disappears. Your messages, schedules, files, devices, and routines begin working together around you.

Personal workflowsBusiness systemsAgentic automation

05

Privacy & security

Practical protection for the people, devices, accounts, and memories that matter—without turning your life into a security exercise.

HardeningRecoveryFamily readiness

06

Special projects

Robots, e-ink tools, private social systems, unusual interfaces, and the good ideas that do not fit inside a product category yet.

PrototypesCustom electronicsImpossible ideas
A custom computer being assembled carefully by hand

Commissioned, not configured

Designed around a person—not a product category.

No two commissions need to look alike. We select, build, connect, and refine every part around what the finished system should make possible.

Bring us an idea

How it works

A commission from first conversation to finished system.

Direct. Discreet. Built to last.

01

Understand

We begin with how you live or work, what is frustrating, and what you wish technology could simply do.

02

Design

We shape the smallest, clearest system that solves the real problem—and make every choice understandable.

03

Build

Hardware, software, and services are assembled, configured, tested, and installed as one finished commission.

04

Remain

We stay close enough to keep it useful, secure, and evolving as your life and the technology change.

What we believe

Private by default.

Beautiful enough to live with.

Simple enough to understand.

Capable enough to feel impossible.

The future should arrive quietly.

Start a commission

Tell us what you wish existed.

Start with the problem, the idea, or even the thing that just annoys you. We will help define what comes next.

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