Junc and The Grid
The vision
Most people’s digital lives run on a handful of cloud platforms — file storage, messaging, media, calendars, smart home — owned and operated by companies with interests that don’t always align with the user’s. The goal of this project is to replace those dependencies with self-owned equivalents, unified by a locally-running AI assistant that actually knows your data.
A piece of junc is a household appliance: a personal compute node that serves as the networking layer, the cloud, and the intelligence layer for everyone in the home. Your data and the intelligence to use it live in the same place — your place, on your hardware.
Yes, it sounds like junk. That’s the point.
What is junc?
Junc (junction) is the concept. A piece of junc is a single node: one appliance running a full self-hosted service stack alongside a local AI assistant that has native access to all of it.
The key properties of any piece of junc:
- Local-first — All data and compute stays on the node. No cloud dependencies for core functionality.
- Network-first — Junc replaces your router. It is your home network, and everything on it is yours.
- Resilient — Built-in power redundancy keeps your junc running through short outages. Personal data is always available, even without an internet connection.
- Open source — Every component is open source software. No vendor lock-in.
- Household-scale — Every member of the household gets their own account, their own storage, and their own private context with Quorra.
- Intelligent — Quorra runs as a service with native access to everything on the machine. She’s the connective tissue between all the services.
This junc — JUNC1
JUNC1 is the name of this specific machine — the first piece of junc, the prototype where the concept is being built and validated. References to “JUNC1” in this documentation mean this exact hardware. References to “a junc” or “your junc” mean any node running the junc stack.
Virtualization: JUNC1 runs Proxmox as the hypervisor. The junc stack runs inside an Ubuntu Server VM (ID 100). A separate Windows 11 VM (ID 101) is used for gaming and is unrelated to the project.
| Host | IP |
|---|---|
| JUNC1 (Proxmox) | 192.168.0.100 |
| Ubuntu Server VM | 192.168.10.10 |
The full hardware specification is on the Hardware page. Both GPUs are passed through to the Ubuntu VM and drive local AI inference for Quorra via llama.cpp.
The Grid
The Grid is the long-term vision: a distributed network of personally-owned junc nodes. Each piece of junc on The Grid is independently functional — self-contained, locally intelligent, privately owned — but capable of communicating with others directly, with no platform in the middle.
This is the first piece of junc on The Grid. The Grid itself is a long-term goal. For now, the focus is on making a single piece of junc work exceptionally well.
Current phase
Phase 1 — single-node prototype
- Stand up core self-hosted services (file storage, media, home automation, code hosting, local LLM serving).
- Build Quorra’s retrieval pipeline so she can reason over personal data stored on the junc.
- Build service integrations so Quorra can take actions on junc services, not just answer questions.
- Validate the product concept with real daily use.
Quorra’s own milestone tracker is the detailed, current source of truth for build status.
Services
See Services for the full list of what runs on JUNC1, with ports and integration status.