CLIQUERAFT

Cliqueraft is a small, independent setup — closer to a workbench than a company in the usual sense. The work sits at the edge of the network: embedded boards, sensors, and small robotics-adjacent hardware, running software that has nowhere to hide if it runs slow.

A large share of the time here goes into GPUs and the low-level end of machine learning — CUDA, quantized models, and inference squeezed onto hardware that was never really built for it. The interesting question isn't how large a model can get, but how much it can still do once almost everything has been taken away from it.

Power shows up as a real constraint, not an afterthought — boards that idle on a few hundred milliwatts, batteries that need to last months instead of hours. This page tries to follow the same rule: no web fonts, no trackers, nothing loaded that doesn't need to be, so it stays light wherever it's opened.

Alongside the hardware, Cliqueraft also builds a small number of niche Android apps — narrow, specific tools meant to do one job well and then get out of the way. They're kept alive quietly, the same way most of this work happens: over long stretches, in the background.

Over time, the direction has been drifting toward research questions in the same territory — embedded intelligence, low-power inference, that kind of thing — without any particular product waiting at the end of them. Nothing formal. Just where things seem to be heading.