THE SOMNI PLATFORM
Purpose-Built Apps. Open-Source Foundation.
Everything runs on your hardware. No cloud accounts, no vendor lock-in, no required cloud services. One platform that handles smart home control, property management, automation, and more — and at the Intelligence tier, even the AI assistant runs on a machine you own.
What You Get
Every app runs locally on your hardware. Here are the highlights — there's much more under the hood.
Somni Home
Dashboard to control lights, locks, climate, and media. Real-time room-based navigation with Apple HomeKit and Siri support.
AI Voice & Call Screening
“Hey Somni” voice control for your home. AI screens incoming calls, blocks spam, and engages scammers so you don't have to.
Life OS
Personal command center aggregating tasks, calendar, health, and finance from the tools you already use. Offline-first.
162+ Available Automations
Pre-built automations handle the details — document intake, email routing, financial syncs, calendar management, and more.
Somni Property
Building maintenance tracking across 11 categories. Asset management, document storage, and insurance claims documentation.
Somni Portal
Resident, admin, and contractor portal. Maintenance requests, ticket dispatch, work order photos, and automated call transcript summaries.
Property Automations
Contractor SLA monitoring, tenant registration, lease management, invoice processing, and move-in/out inspections — all automated.
AI Telephony
AI answers tenant calls, routes to the right person, transcribes conversations, and summarizes for your records.
Room-based control with real-time status
Built on 80+ integrated open-source projects. 0 required cloud dependencies for core operations.
How They Connect
Shared Authentication
Every app uses OIDC auth through Authentik. One login, every application. Role-based access controls who sees what.
Unified Data Layer
Encrypted credential management and PostgreSQL store structured data for all services. Everything stays on your hardware.
AI Orchestration
OpenClaw is the AI Assistant backbone of the platform. It drives every app through SomniMCP, the tool registry that exposes your home, property, and automation data to AI. Prefer Claude directly? SomniMCP also connects as a standard MCP server to Claude Desktop — same tools, your choice of assistant.
The assistant works at every tier. What changes is where it runs: at Essential, Home, and Home+ it answers through cloud AI providers, so those requests leave the house. At Intelligence it runs entirely on your own hardware via Ollama — your conversations never leave, and it keeps working when your internet doesn't. Same assistant, different address.
One login for everything — secure single sign-on across all your apps
How It's Built
Your smart home runs on hardware at your location. Your data stays yours. Your system alerts us when something needs attention, and we handle everything remotely.
An Integrated System at Your Home
We build a system, not a computer. It runs on a node sized to your home, controls your devices, runs your apps, and keeps working even if the internet goes down.
- ✓ ZimaBlade 7700 or ZimaBoard 2 — fanless, quiet, low-power
- ✓ Add an SFF node for cameras, storage & multi-zone
- ✓ NVIDIA DGX Spark / ASUS Ascent GX10 for fully local AI
- ✓ Additive tiers — add a node, never replace one
- ✓ Hardware you own outright, procured at cost + 10%
We Manage It Remotely
Your system sends us health alerts through a secure connection. We push updates and fix issues without touching your router or exposing anything to the internet.
- ✓ Automated health monitoring
- ✓ Seamless updates, no downtime
- ✓ Self-healing if something crashes
Open-Source Foundation
Built on 80+ proven open-source projects including Home Assistant, with 18 custom smart home components featuring spatial intelligence and room-graph propagation.
Three-Zone Networking
Your home network stays private. Smart devices run on their own isolated network. Our management access uses a separate encrypted tunnel. Three zones, zero exposure.
Works Without Internet (Core Automations)
Core automations run locally. If your internet drops, lights, automations, and sensors keep working. You only lose remote access until it returns.
For the Technically Curious: Full Architecture Details
How We Manage Your System Remotely
Container Orchestration: K3s (lightweight Kubernetes) orchestrates 20+ services on your hardware. If something crashes, it automatically restarts within seconds. FluxCD handles GitOps-based deployments with auto-rollback.
Your Local Access: Access all dashboards from any device on your local network. Home Assistant, energy monitoring, tenant management (property owners) - all available at local addresses. No internet required for daily use.
Your Remote Access (Optional Add-On): Secure remote access via HTTPS. Access your dashboards from your phone while traveling. No port forwarding, no complicated setup. Completely separate from our management access.
Our Management Access (Included): We connect through a secure, encrypted Tailscale VPN tunnel (WireGuard encryption) that's completely separate from your home network. No ports opened on your router. Your access and our management access are on separate networks.
Complete Open-Source Stack (20+ Services)
Core Platform
- • Home Assistant - Device integration & automation
- • K3s - Lightweight Kubernetes orchestration
- • Tailscale - Secure VPN mesh network
- • Cloudflare - Zero Trust tunnels & CDN
Data & Storage
- • PostgreSQL - Primary database
- • Nextcloud - File storage & sync
- • Paperless-ngx - Document management
- • Homebox - Home inventory
Security & Monitoring
- • Authentik - SSO & identity management
- • Wazuh - Security monitoring (SIEM)
- • Bitwarden - Password management
- • Frigate - NVR with AI detection
Automation & AI
- • OpenClaw - AI Assistant backbone (pairs with SomniMCP)
- • SomniMCP - Tool registry (also connects directly to Claude)
- • Node-RED - Visual automation flows
- • Ollama - Local LLM runtime
Deployment Architecture
• K3s for container orchestration on edge hardware
• FluxCD for GitOps continuous deployment with auto-rollback
• Traefik for reverse proxy, TLS termination, and service routing
• Longhorn for distributed persistent storage and backup
Custom Somni Components (Home Assistant)
Complete Portability
Every service is open-source and exportable. If you ever leave Somni, you can hire another engineer to manage your cluster, manage it yourself (we'll provide documentation), or export all data and migrate. You own the hardware, the data, and the configurations.
Your Private Application Library
Replace cloud subscriptions with self-hosted alternatives. All applications use a single login with multi-factor authentication.
Home Assistant
Nextcloud
Bitwarden
Grafana
AdGuard
Prometheus
Obsidian
Node-RED
Pi-holeHome AssistantNextcloudBitwardenGrafanaAdGuardPrometheusObsidianNode-REDPi-holeHome AssistantNextcloudBitwardenGrafanaAdGuardPrometheusObsidianNode-REDPi-hole
PostgreSQL
Docker
Tailscale
Cloudflare
Redis
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Ollama
Traefik
ESPHomePostgreSQLDockerTailscaleCloudflareRedisn8nOllamaTraefikESPHomePostgreSQLDockerTailscaleCloudflareRedisn8nOllamaTraefikESPHomePhotos & Media
Immich (Google Photos replacement), Calibre-Web, Music Assistant
Security & Privacy
Bitwarden, Frigate NVR with AI detection, AdGuard ad blocking
Files & Documents
Nextcloud, Paperless-NGX, Obsidian knowledge management
77+ apps
Pre-configured and ready to deploy. All with single sign-on and multi-factor authentication.
Built for Privacy
Every application runs on your hardware. No cloud accounts, no vendor lock-in, no required cloud services. Cloud AI is optional at every tier and never required — and at Intelligence, the assistant runs locally too, so nothing leaves your network. You own the code, the data, and the infrastructure.
See It In Action
Every app runs locally on your hardware. Get a free quote to see what your home could look like.