Part of the Kiwi Edge AI Stack | Founder OS: NZ-Start-Up | Agent policy: .github/agent-fleet/

Sovereign hybrid edge AI for NZ farms and founders - local-first + multi-model, Te Mana Raraunga aligned - collaborating with Venture Taranaki, startups.com investors and Kotahitanga Investment Fund (HITL + cultural advisory for formal approaches).

See AI Infrastructure Leadership for our positioning as New Zealand's leader in sovereign edge AI Infrastructure.

Agents inform, draft, prepare, monitor, and remind. Humans advise, sign, file, send, and pay. Anti-hallucination policy: .github/agent-fleet/anti-hallucination.md | Congruence: CAT_CONGRUENCE.md

Coastal Alpine Tech products treat operational and personal data as taonga. Defaults favour local-first operation, purpose-limited collection, and Human-in-the-Loop for high-stakes actions.

Agents inform, draft, prepare, monitor, and remind. Humans advise, sign, file, send, and pay.

Fleet policy: fivepanelhat / Kiwi Edge AI Stack · COMPLIANCE.md · COMPLIANCE_REGIONS.md · SECURITY.md

Every Coastal Alpine Tech repository is expected to surface Privacy, Security, and Governance in the README and COMPLIANCE.md / SECURITY.md:

1. Privacy — local-first defaults, Privacy Act 2020 awareness, Te Mana Raraunga spirit, opt-in labelled third-party AI
2. Security — no silent exfiltration, least privilege, SecOps / red-team cadence on fleet CI
3. Governance — HITL for high-stakes; agents draft/prepare only; humans sign, send, file, and pay

The Kiwi Edge AI Stack exists so Aotearoa can run hybrid edge + multi-model AI for farms, founders, and frontline care without defaulting to always-on foreign cloud dependency.

1. Primary industries locked to cloud SaaS - Rural latency, outages, and offshore data residency conflict with real operations and Te Mana Raraunga.
2. Fragmented product landscape - Growers, EDAs, and whanau face many disconnected tools instead of one coherent stack.
3. Founder overhead - Early NZ companies burn time on formation, compliance, and grants with little local digital capacity.
4. Social navigation fatigue - Whanau in high-stress pathways face scattered directories and equity gaps.
5. Shallow "AI employees" hype - Unconstrained agents create legal and cultural risk; NZ needs hard HITL ceilings.

Hardware target: Raspberry Pi 5 (16GB) + Hailo-10H NPU | Policy: agents draft/prepare; humans sign/send/pay.

Coastal Alpine Tech is a pre-seed company engineering in New Plymouth, Taranaki, with field context in regional primary industries (including Mana Kai-class / Horowhenua agritech). Benefits are framed as pathways, not guaranteed job numbers.

See Solution we have built above. Cross-portfolio map: Kiwi Edge AI Stack | employment detail: NZ-Start-Up investor pack.

Coastal Alpine Tech’s defensibility comes from the tight integration of six capabilities that are rarely combined at the edge:

• Edge orchestration — LangGraph multi-tenant mesh (Weaver) that keeps every tenant’s knowledge and state strictly local.
• Sovereign architecture — Default-offline, Te Mana Raraunga-aligned paths. Data generated on whenua stays on whenua unless the owner explicitly moves it.
• Hardware optimisation — Canonical target of Raspberry Pi 5 16GB + Hailo-10H with energy-aware telemetry (joules, tokens/s) built into every portal path.
• AI deployment tooling — Shared Core SDK + dual-platform installers + Aether companion so the same stack runs on Windows/Linux workstations and production edge nodes.
• Proprietary local datasets — Continuous DataFlywheel that records trajectories, human feedback, and hardware outcomes on-device, then curates golden sets under owner control. Nothing leaves the node by default.
• Inference optimisation — Hardware-aware measurement and adaptive local paths (Ollama + optional Hailo acceleration) tuned for sub-10 W rural nodes rather than cloud GPUs.

These are not separate features. They form a single closed loop: sensors → local inference → trajectory capture → human-in-the-loop correction → improved local models → better decisions — all while remaining offline-capable and sovereignty-compliant.

The result is a system that becomes more valuable the longer it runs on a given farm or site, without requiring continuous cloud connectivity or data export.

Coastal Alpine Tech is pre-seed. The following artefacts exist so that enterprise buyers, partners, and investors can see the design intent, current controls, and staged path forward — without over-claiming certification or maturity that does not yet exist.

Status (July 2026): Working technical controls (SecurityGuard, DataFlywheel, tenant isolation design, SecOps workflows) + comprehensive design-target documentation. External audit and formal attestation are future phases gated on pilots and commercial traction.

Citation indexes acknowledging Coastal Alpine Tech research and development from organisational Drive materials. These are design-intent / lineage documents, not certifications or audited valuations. No personal data is published.

Index: docs/artefacts/README.md

Fleet mirrors: also published under docs/artefacts/ in Core, stack, Aether, Weaver, Byte-Size-Kai, Front_Line_Whanau, scaffylads, and NZ-Start-Up.

Technology is currently ahead of commercial packaging. The commercial logic is documented so investors and partners can see customer segments, packaging shape, recurring revenue intent, GTM sequence, and sales funnel — without invented ARR or public dollar prices.

Pricing posture: Specific dollar figures are not published. Commercial terms are set per pilot or partnership and refined with real willingness-to-pay data.

Coastal Alpine Tech Limited pre-seed startup, New Plymouth, Taranaki, Aotearoa New Zealand.

We are building offline-native, data-sovereign edge intelligence for remote industrial, agricultural, and biosecurity settings across Aotearoa. This org profile maps our Kiwi Edge AI Stack early-stage product architecture and open engineering work, not a claim of large-scale commercial deployment or raised Series capital.

Our stack is hybridised across Coastal-Alpine-Core, Weaver, Aether, and coastal-alpine-stack: develop on Windows or Linux; target production edge on the canonical nodeRaspberry Pi 5 (16GB) with Hailo-10H NPU (40 TOPS AI Accelerator / AI HAT+ 2) to support customary data rights (Te Mana Raraunga / Maori Data Sovereignty) and offline operation in rural catchments facing cloud blackouts.

A compact view of the governance work now living in this org profile (full framework under .github/compliance/):

Status (pre-seed): Compliance framework documents are in-repo as design targets not an external SOC 2 Type II attestation. Implementation is early-stage. Local docs:SKILL.md | Implementation guide | Audit checklist | Security Roadmap | Threat Model

Org home for Maori AI | deeptech | agritech | sovereign edge funding discovery and applications (HITL required):

Re-verify every status on the funder site before applying. Agent drafts are not submissions.

All Coastal Alpine edge repositories document this same target. Do not mix Hailo-8 / Hailo-10L / 8GB SKUs in product docs.

The entire portfolio is standardised on the Coastal Alpine Tech proprietary licence. Front_Line_Whanau, Aether (both previously Apache-2.0) and CAT-mail (previously MIT) were relicensed to proprietary; this governs each repo going forward, and does not affect versions already distributed under the earlier open licences.

Each repo ships a root LICENSE file. Prefer SPDX in GitHub repo settings so the UI does not show NOASSERTION.

Byte Size Kai is the forefront agritech offering on this stack - sovereign multi-modal crop intelligence for microgreens and Mana Kai-class growers (Horowhenua field context / Taranaki engineering).

CAT Gold / Platinum / Diamond labels are internal design maturity targets for a pre-seed company not third-party certifications or claims of enterprise production fleets.

End-to-end target data path on a sovereign edge node, hybridised with the Aether companion. Design intent: sensors and actuators stay on-farm; inference and orchestration stay local. Develop on Windows or Linux; target deploy on RPi 5.

Diagrams: Architecture images and Mermaid maps describe the target product architecture for this pre-seed stack. They are engineering design maps not claims of large-scale commercial fleet deployment.

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subgraph FIELD["Field & marine sensors"]
direction LR
S1["Water probes<br/>pH | DO | turbidity"]
S2["Soil probes<br/>N-P-K | moisture"]
S3["Vision / audio<br/>CSI | mics"]
S4["Hive cameras<br/>YOLO streams"]
end
subgraph FIRMWARE["Edge nodes Sovereign-Edge-Firmware"]
direction LR
ESP["ESP32 nodes<br/>mTLS MQTT"]
HUB["Pi hub services<br/>Mosquitto | Node-RED"]
end
subgraph RUNTIME["Hybrid runtime Core | Weaver | stack | RPi 5 16GB + Hailo-10H"]
direction TB
K3s["K3s / compose<br/>coastal-alpine-stack"]
Core["Coastal-Alpine-Core<br/>SecurityGuard | Telemetry | Flywheel | portal_core"]
Weaver["Weaver<br/>LangGraph multi-tenant RAG"]
Ollama["Ollama<br/>Gemma 4 e4b local LLM"]
Hailo["Hailo-10H NPU<br/>40 TOPS vision accel"]
end
subgraph PORTALS["Domain portals offline agents"]
direction LR
Blue["Byte Size Kai"]
Sting["Sting-Operation"]
Aqua["AquaGuard"]
Soil["SoilGuard"]
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Aether["Aether<br/>ReAct | skills | HITL | desktop control"]
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direction LR
Win["Windows 10/11<br/>install.ps1"]
Lin["Linux workstation<br/>install.sh"]
RPi["RPi 5 16GB + Hailo-10H<br/>production edge"]
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S1 & S2 & S3 & S4 --> ESP
ESP --> HUB
HUB --> K3s
K3s --> Core
Core --> Weaver
Weaver --> Blue & Sting & Aqua & Soil
Core --> Ollama
S3 & S4 --> Hailo
Aether -.->|"skills, CI, HITL, computer use"| Core & Weaver
RUNTIME -.-> HOSTS
ORCH -.-> Win & Lin
class S1,S2,S3,S4 sense
class ESP,HUB fw
class K3s,Ollama,Hailo hw
class Core core
class Weaver,Blue,Sting,Aqua,Soil app
class Aether companion
class Win,Lin,RPi host

The hybrid foundation repos ship one-line installers for both platforms. Production edge remains RPi 5 (Linux); Windows and Linux workstations are first-class for development.

# Linux system packages (Debian/Ubuntu/RPi OS)
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y python3 python3-dev python3-venv python3-pip git build-essential

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/fivepanelhat/Coastal-Alpine-Core/main/install.sh | bash

irm https://raw.githubusercontent.com/fivepanelhat/Coastal-Alpine-Core/main/install.ps1 | iex

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/fivepanelhat/Weaver/main/install.sh | bash
# or from a clone: python3 bootstrap.py

irm https://raw.githubusercontent.com/fivepanelhat/Weaver/main/install.ps1 | iex
# or from a clone: python bootstrap.py

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/fivepanelhat/Aether/main/install.sh | bash
aether doctor

irm https://raw.githubusercontent.com/fivepanelhat/Aether/main/install.ps1 | iex
aether doctor

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/fivepanelhat/coastal-alpine-stack/main/install.sh | bash

irm https://raw.githubusercontent.com/fivepanelhat/coastal-alpine-stack/main/install.ps1 | iex

ollama pull gemma4:e4b # Weaver / portals / edge
ollama pull qwen2.5-coder:7b # Aether text
ollama pull qwen2.5-vl:7b # Aether computer-use vision

1. Sovereign by Design: Data generated on NZ whenua is processed and stored locally, fully conforming to Te Mana Raraunga principles. We avoid commercial third-party cloud data leakage.
2. Rural Resilience: Our systems are engineered to withstand rural connectivity blackouts, executing local multi-modal vision and audio inference without any internet connection.
3. Regulatory Safety: Domain agents are designed to support actuator lockouts (e.g. fertigation lines) so operators can reduce risk of Regional Council rule breaches field validation is part of the pre-seed roadmap.
4. Cross-platform hybrid: Foundation packages target Windows and Linux for development; intended production edge is RPi 5 + Hailo-10H.
5. HITL by default: High-risk agent actions and capital/compliance decisions require human approval no silent autonomous implementation of governance changes.

Developed with pride in Taranaki, New Zealand.

See the full GOVERNANCE.md for decision rights, roles, HITL policy, and escalation.

Internal maturity model not external audit grades:

• Diamond: security, observability, and deployment hardening goals
• Platinum: AI continuous improvement + data flywheel goals
• Gold: workflow-native design with transparent HITL gates

Kotahitanga (collective unity) guides capital allocation for sovereign AI and indigenous data infrastructure:

Full reference set on this repo:

Next focus (suggested): keep submodules on Core 0.5.4; smoke-test installers on clean Windows and Linux hosts; advance Week 112 compliance implementation against the local checklist; link new AI_INFRASTRUCTURE_LEADERSHIP.md from investor/grant materials.

Coastal Alpine Tech Sovereign Edge AI for Aotearoa New Zealand