Reefy is an OS for AI computers. It boots from a USB dongle and turns any PC into a self-hosted AI server: run AI agents, local LLM inference, vision pipelines, door-access control, anything you can put in a container - on hardware you already own.
Why we built it
The default playbook for self-hosting AI today is: install Ubuntu, fight NVIDIA drivers, configure Docker, set up reverse proxies, maintain backups, hope a firmware update doesn't brick the box. That's a barrier between you and a working private AI machine.
Reefy starts from Buildroot and hand-picks every package from the kernel up: 15-second cold boot, NVIDIA GPU as a first-class citizen, immutable A/B root with auto-rollback, encryption keyed to a USB dongle, no package manager on the device so the system never drifts. The app catalog is AI-focused from day one - AI agents (OpenClaw, Hermes), local LLM inference (Ollama, vLLM, SGLang), vision pipelines - not retrofitted onto a general-purpose distro.
What's different about us
- Open source: github.com/reefyai/reefy is the firmware; reefy-llm-proxy is the OpenAI-compatible gateway; reefy-qr-access is the door-access app.
- Bring Your Own Subscription: OAuth into your OpenAI Codex or xAI Grok plan, agents call it through the local proxy - no API keys, no per-token billing.
- Hardware watchdog A/B firmware: a bad update auto-rolls back to the previous working version. Safe for closet deployments.
- Cloudflared tunnels: every device gets a reefy.ai subdomain for remote access. No port forwarding, no VPN, no static IP.
Who runs Reefy
Reefy is built by a small team focused on giving individuals and small teams the cloud-like experience of one-click app deployment on hardware they own. Follow the project on X or watch the GitHub organization.