Founder-led technical leadership for consequential software, architecture, AI, and delivery decisions.
Sawfwair is a software practice based in Prince Edward Island and working globally. We embed with growing teams that need the judgment of a senior technical leader and the output of a hands-on builder — without pretending strategy and delivery are separate jobs.
Founder Kyle McCullough brings a career spanning film production, games shipped with Ubisoft, multi-million-dollar U.S. Department of Defense research at USC, enterprise AI, and CTO leadership. Sawfwair turns that range into clear decisions, durable systems, and shipped products.
- Fractional CTO leadership — retained technical ownership across product, architecture, teams, vendors, and delivery.
- Critical product delivery — embedded 6–12 week engagements when an important system has to move.
- AI systems — grounded model, agent, retrieval, computer-vision, and workflow infrastructure beyond chatbot wrappers.
- Architecture and performance — designs that survive real users, real constraints, and the next stage of growth.
- Agent-accelerated execution — coordinated AI workflows with human accountability and proof at every boundary.
Mere is a local-first AI ecosystem: one runtime contract from a single machine to private remote compute, visual workflow authoring, plugins, and agent-ready workspace operations.
| Surface | Repository | Role in the system |
|---|---|---|
| Runtime | mere.run | Local multimodal inference, model management, training, workflows, and API serving. |
| Studio | Mere Graph Studio | Portable visual workflow authoring and operations. |
| Compute | Mere Relay | Private remote scheduling and outbound-only compute nodes. |
| Operations | MereKit | Onboarding, context, diagnostics, MCP tools, and workspace operations. |
| Connections | MereKit Link | Declarative links, sync policy, and integration boundaries. |
| Extensions | Mere plugins | User-controlled bridges to external compute and providers. |
The public repositories include runnable software, release artifacts, architecture decisions, operational boundaries, tests, and documentation. The aim is not to talk about local-first AI in the abstract; it is to make the claim inspectable.
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sawfwair.com · kyle@sawfwair.com · Prince Edward Island, Canada
