Powered by the LocalDiabetic vault · fed by the OpenDiabetic hive

The operating system
for daily life with diabetes.

Your meds, supplies, insurance, appointments, labs, records, and family — scattered across ten apps, an inbox, and a spreadsheet today. DailyLifeOS connects them into one coherent system you own. Not a smarter chatbot — a system that quietly keeps you on top of life. Your records never leave home.

90% software · 10% AI · the model is one service, not the star

90/10software / AI — the system knows, the model speaks
4layers — math & code · data · models · edge
1law — PHI never leaves your box
$0to the diabetic — funded by the hive

The center of gravity isn't the model — it's the workflow and the ownership. The thing you feel working for you every morning is the system helping you stay on top of life.

The LifeBoard — the screen you wake up to

Every card below is generated from your vault, not a mockup: next appointments, today's meds, your A1C trend, supplies running low, what's due for refill, your documents, your emergency contact. No model touches it — it's the deterministic system, made visible.

Open a sample LifeBoard → Run it yourself

Generated on your box, served on your box. The footer says it plainly: your records never left this box · N PHI-blind receipts · chain verified.

The three laws

Most projects start with the technology and go hunting for a problem. We start with the daily realities of living with diabetes — and build only what earns its place.

① 90% software, 10% AI

Real value is mundane: did I take my meds? when's my appointment? what was my last A1C? how many strips are left? Those are data, workflow, and retrieval problems — deterministic software. The model is the friendly natural-language interface, not the thing that knows.

② Integration over invention

The hardware is commodity and the open-source organs already exist — Nextcloud, Immich, Home Assistant, Paperless, ntfy, calendars, OCR. Nobody has connected them into one coherent diabetic-life experience. That experience is the product. The moat isn't a box.

③ The disappearance test

We build only what you'd notice if it vanished tomorrow — your refill reminder, your insurance documents, your appointment calendar, your family's emergency access, your records. A 10%-smarter chatbot? Nobody would notice. Utility over novelty.

The four-layer stack

Every layer is real — mapped to code that runs today or weights cooking right now. Honest status on each.

① Math & Code LIVE

The foundation — rules, schedules, reminders, supply tracking, escalations, audit trails, notifications, indexing, sync. None of it needs frontier AI.
Live: the reminder/nudge engine on the NAS (cron + ntfy + email), generic-off-box.

② Data — the vault LIVE

Records, insurance, contacts, appointments, labs, imaging, medication history — storage and retrieval, on your box.
Live: the 15-folder Home Vault with a hard invariant. Next: typed records so retrieval is a query, not a file hunt.

③ Specialized Models IN BUILD

Purpose-built diabetic models that understand CGM data, insurance terms, wound-care, supply management — domain knowledge beats parameter count.
Cooking now: DiabeticAnchor-27B. Proven: the foot-care & appeal edge models.

④ Edge Deployment LIVE

Train once in the hive, distribute distilled: 27B → 14B → 9B → 4–7B, down to the box in your home. Most people never need the 27B locally.
Live: the on-box edge brain (organize/summarize/remind; diagnosis refused).

Most users never need a frontier model running locally. They need "find my insurance card" and "remind me to refill insulin." Software problems first — the model is there when language understanding helps.

Integration over invention

The 90% is mostly wiring proven tools together and teaching them to speak diabetes — behind the firewall, with receipts, under one conversational shell.

Daily realityProven open-source organWhat DailyLifeOS adds
Records & documentsPaperless-ngx · Nextcloudtyped diabetic taxonomy · 10-second retrieval
Wound trackingImmichwound-progression timeline · clinician-share
Lab results (A1C)OCR (tesseract)structured history + trend
Meds & refillsntfy + reminder engine ✓ livemed schedule · days-of-supply math
AppointmentsCalDAV · Radicalevisit-prep packets · podiatry cadence
Supplies & inventoryGrocyreorder-before-zero
Sensors & automationHome AssistantCGM / scale ingest · alerts
Family & emergencythin customemergency access · escalation ladder

The one law: the firewall

A digital life OS holds your most private information. So it has exactly one inviolable rule.

🏠 Your box (LocalDiabetic)

Your vault, your records, your photos, your inference — all on hardware you own. Raw PHI is read in memory, used, and never persisted off-box.

PHI never leaves home.

models flow ▼ down receipts flow ▲ up PHI crosses NEVER

🐝 The hive (OpenDiabetic)

Cooks the models, runs the heavy compute, receives only non-PHI receipts. It refuses any data that isn't typed open / synthetic / model.

Knows nothing about you.

Enforced in code, both sides: the hive runs assert_non_phi; the edge brain refuses diagnosis with a hard 422 and never writes PHI. Every action emits a hash-chained, PHI-blind receipt you can recompute yourself at diabeticledger.com.

The disappearance test

The simplest test of a real product: would you notice if it vanished tomorrow?

Nobody would notice

A chatbot that's 10% smarter. A clever demo. A benchmark score. The novelty layer most AI products ship — and the thing a diabetic least needs.

we skip it

You'd feel the hole instantly

Your refill reminder. Your insurance documents. Your appointment calendar. Your family's emergency access. Your A1C history. Your supply count.

we build it

Same spirit as the mission itself: give people what they need, not what you have.

Where it sits in the house

DailyLifeOS isn't a standalone app — it's the daily-life layer of the OpenDiabetic ecosystem. The model is one service among many.

🐝 OpenDiabetic — the hiveCloud-side: compute, datasets, cooked models, community resources. Trains once, sends knowledge down.
🐝 LocalDiabetic — the boxYour home node: the vault, automation, notifications, family support, local inference. DailyLifeOS is what runs on it.

A 2-bay NAS, a UGREEN, a ZimaCube, a Jetson — any is enough, because most of the value comes from math, code, storage, and execution. The model just makes the interface friendlier. The hardware is a commodity; the experience is the product.

Honest status board

No vaporware. What runs today, what's framework, what's cooking — stated plainly.

LayerLive todayFramework / in build
① Math & Codereminder / nudge engine (NAS + ntfy + email)supply tracking · escalations · indexing
② Data — vault15-folder Home Vault + hard invarianttyped records + indexed retrieval
③ Modelsfoot-care & appeal edge models (proven)DiabeticAnchor-27B (cooking)
④ Edgeon-box edge brain (diagnosis refused)27B→14B→9B→4B distillation ladder

First build: the typed vault + retrieval — so "find my insurance card" and "what was my last A1C?" return in ten seconds. Highest disappearance-test value, pure software, no model required. The model becomes the shell once the system underneath is solid.