Coastal Alpine Tech Limited — pre-seed startup, New Plymouth, Taranaki, Aotearoa New Zealand.

We are building offline-native, data-sovereign edge intelligence for remote industrial, agricultural, and biosecurity settings across Aotearoa. This org profile maps our Kiwi Edge AI Stack — early-stage product architecture and open engineering work, not a claim of large-scale commercial deployment or raised Series capital.

Our stack is hybridised across Coastal-Alpine-Core, Weaver, Aether, and coastal-alpine-stack: develop on Windows or Linux; target production edge on the canonical node — Raspberry Pi 5 (16GB) with Hailo-10H NPU (40 TOPS AI Accelerator / AI HAT+ 2) — to support customary data rights (Te Mana Raraunga / Māori Data Sovereignty) and offline operation in rural catchments facing cloud blackouts.

A compact view of the governance work now living in this org profile (full framework under .github/compliance/):

Status (pre-seed): Compliance framework documents are in-repo as design targets — not an external SOC 2 Type II attestation. Implementation is early-stage.
Local docs: SKILL.md · Implementation guide · Audit checklist

Org home for Māori AI · deeptech · agritech · sovereign edge funding discovery and applications (HITL required):

Re-verify every status on the funder site before applying. Agent drafts are not submissions.

All Coastal Alpine edge repositories document this same target. Do not mix Hailo-8 / Hailo-10L / 8GB SKUs in product docs.

CAT Gold / Platinum / Diamond labels are internal design maturity targets for a pre-seed company — not third-party certifications or claims of enterprise production fleets.

End-to-end target data path on a sovereign edge node, hybridised with the Aether companion. Design intent: sensors and actuators stay on-farm; inference and orchestration stay local. Develop on Windows or Linux; target deploy on RPi 5.

Diagrams: Architecture images and Mermaid maps describe the target product architecture for this pre-seed stack. They are engineering design maps — not claims of large-scale commercial fleet deployment.

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    subgraph FIELD["① Field & marine sensors"]
        direction LR
        S1["Water probes<br/>pH · DO · turbidity"]
        S2["Soil probes<br/>N-P-K · moisture"]
        S3["Vision / audio<br/>CSI · mics"]
        S4["Hive cameras<br/>YOLO streams"]
    end

    subgraph FIRMWARE["② Edge nodes — Sovereign-Edge-Firmware"]
        direction LR
        ESP["ESP32 nodes<br/>mTLS MQTT"]
        HUB["Pi hub services<br/>Mosquitto · Node-RED"]
    end

    subgraph RUNTIME["③ Hybrid runtime — Core · Weaver · stack · RPi 5 16GB + Hailo-10H"]
        direction TB
        K3s["K3s / compose<br/>coastal-alpine-stack"]
        Core["Coastal-Alpine-Core<br/>SecurityGuard · Telemetry · Flywheel · portal_core"]
        Weaver["Weaver<br/>LangGraph multi-tenant RAG"]
        Ollama["Ollama<br/>Gemma 4 e4b local LLM"]
        Hailo["Hailo-10H NPU<br/>40 TOPS vision accel"]
    end

    subgraph PORTALS["④ Domain portals — offline agents"]
        direction LR
        Blue["Blue-Moon"]
        Sting["Sting-Operation"]
        Aqua["AquaGuard"]
        Soil["SoilGuard"]
    end

    subgraph ORCH["⑤ Aether companion — hybrid edge AI + computer use"]
        Aether["Aether<br/>ReAct · skills · HITL · desktop control"]
    end

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        direction LR
        Win["Windows 10/11<br/>install.ps1"]
        Lin["Linux workstation<br/>install.sh"]
        RPi["RPi 5 16GB + Hailo-10H<br/>production edge"]
    end

    S1 & S2 & S3 & S4 --> ESP
    ESP --> HUB
    HUB --> K3s
    K3s --> Core
    Core --> Weaver
    Weaver --> Blue & Sting & Aqua & Soil
    Core --> Ollama
    S3 & S4 --> Hailo
    Aether -.->|skills · CI · HITL · computer use| Core & Weaver
    RUNTIME -.-> HOSTS
    ORCH -.-> Win & Lin

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    class ESP,HUB fw
    class K3s,Ollama,Hailo hw
    class Core core
    class Weaver,Blue,Sting,Aqua,Soil app
    class Aether companion
    class Win,Lin,RPi host

The hybrid foundation repos ship one-line installers for both platforms. Production edge remains RPi 5 (Linux); Windows and Linux workstations are first-class for development.

# Linux system packages (Debian/Ubuntu/RPi OS)
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y python3 python3-dev python3-venv python3-pip git build-essential

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/fivepanelhat/Coastal-Alpine-Core/main/install.sh | bash

irm https://raw.githubusercontent.com/fivepanelhat/Coastal-Alpine-Core/main/install.ps1 | iex

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/fivepanelhat/Weaver/main/install.sh | bash
# or from a clone: python3 bootstrap.py

irm https://raw.githubusercontent.com/fivepanelhat/Weaver/main/install.ps1 | iex
# or from a clone: python bootstrap.py

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/fivepanelhat/Aether/main/install.sh | bash
aether doctor

irm https://raw.githubusercontent.com/fivepanelhat/Aether/main/install.ps1 | iex
aether doctor

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/fivepanelhat/coastal-alpine-stack/main/install.sh | bash

irm https://raw.githubusercontent.com/fivepanelhat/coastal-alpine-stack/main/install.ps1 | iex

ollama pull gemma4:e4b          # Weaver / portals / edge
ollama pull qwen2.5-coder:7b    # Aether text
ollama pull qwen2.5-vl:7b       # Aether computer-use vision

1. Sovereign by Design: Data generated on NZ whenua is processed and stored locally, fully conforming to Te Mana Raraunga principles. We avoid commercial third-party cloud data leakage.
2. Rural Resilience: Our systems are engineered to withstand rural connectivity blackouts, executing local multi-modal vision and audio inference without any internet connection.
3. Regulatory Safety: Domain agents are designed to support actuator lockouts (e.g. fertigation lines) so operators can reduce risk of Regional Council rule breaches — field validation is part of the pre-seed roadmap.
4. Cross-platform hybrid: Foundation packages target Windows and Linux for development; intended production edge is RPi 5 + Hailo-10H.
5. HITL by default: High-risk agent actions and capital/compliance decisions require human approval — no silent autonomous implementation of governance changes.

Developed with pride in Taranaki, New Zealand.

Condensed from the compliance and Kotahitanga work added to this profile — product landing above remains primary.

Internal maturity model — not external audit grades:

• Diamond: security, observability, and deployment hardening goals
• Platinum: AI continuous improvement + data flywheel goals
• Gold: workflow-native design with transparent HITL gates

Kotahitanga (collective unity) guides capital allocation for sovereign AI and indigenous data infrastructure:

Full reference set on this repo:

Next focus (suggested): keep submodules on Core ≥0.5.4; smoke-test installers on clean Windows and Linux hosts; advance Week 1–12 compliance implementation against the local checklist.

Coastal Alpine Tech — Sovereign Edge AI for Aotearoa New Zealand 🇳🇿