Open source · Nairobi, Kenya

Intelligence that stays with you. Not in the cloud.

Jarida is an open-source community building privacy-first AI and software — rooted in Africa, built for the world.

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Current project

Goose In A Pond

+ Goose On The Go

A modular, agentic AI home assistant built on Block's open-source Goose agent. Fully local. Fully yours. Runs on edge hardware with offline voice, smart device control, and a self-improving memory layer — no subscription, no cloud dependency.

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Capabilities

Fully local. Fully yours.

Local hardware

Runs entirely on NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano — no cloud required.

Offline voice

Wake-word detection and real-time speech recognition, fully on-device.

Modular agents

Built on Block's open-source Goose framework, extended with custom MCP servers.

Privacy-first

All computation, memory, and speech stay on your hardware by default.

Smart home control

Native integrations plus IR, Bluetooth, and Android sandboxing for SDK-less devices.

Goose On The Go

Mobile companion app for remote control, notifications, and on-the-go access.

Development roadmap

Foundation

Goose on Jetson hardware, offline voice, local LLMs

Smart Home

Device control, Goose On The Go MVP, Moonbeam MCP

Self-Improving

Adaptive prompts, security integration, memory editor

Community Release

Public open-source release, dev kit, starter templates

Open source

Software built openly.

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Community

Designed with, not just for.

Jarida is community-run. Every project is peer-reviewed, every release scored against our public heuristics, every feature credits the people who built it.

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