Architecture

The structural blueprint of The Rose & Thorn — where space, function, and intelligence converge.

The Estate Model

The Rose & Thorn is not a single structure — it is a coordinated system of environments, each with a defined purpose within the estate intelligence network.

Core Zones

Main House

Primary residential and hospitality environment. Central coordination hub.

BrewHause

Production environment for fermentation, distillation, and craft systems.

Household Layer

Intelligence network of residents managing estate operations and continuity.

Garden & Grounds

Environmental extension of the estate — seasonal, atmospheric, and adaptive.

System Relationships

Each zone is interconnected through shared intelligence systems: memory, scheduling, environmental control, and hospitality orchestration.

Design Philosophy

The estate is designed as a living structure — not static architecture, but a responsive environment shaped by its residents, rituals, and routines.

Everything. Stays. Here.

This system processes your voice, your face, your guests' faces, your financial documents, your camera feeds, and your personal conversations — and not one byte of it touches a cloud server.

Private By Architecture

RTX 3090 24GB GPU inference server · faster-Whisper on GPU · local facial recognition · no external API keys

✦ RTX 3090 24GB GPU inference server ✦ All speech processed locally ✦ All vision AI on your hardware ✦ No API keys to external AI ✦ No data sold or logged externally ✦ Works without internet

The Engine

Every tool is open source. Every service is self-hosted. Every model runs on your GPU.

Ollama

LLM runtime — all 16 personas

Qwen3 14B / 32B

Primary reasoning models

Llama 3.2 Vision 11B

Fashion, shelf, document AI

MuseTalk 1.5

Photo-realistic lip sync

Home Assistant OS

Smart home hub

Frigate NVR 0.16+

AI security cameras

n8n

Agent orchestration

faster-Whisper

Local speech-to-text

Piper TTS

All persona voices

ComfyUI

Image & video generation

Grocy

Pantry inventory

Notion + n8n

Household memory