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Binary Spirits,
Digital Alchemy

AI-powered tools for the curious

What is Highball Technomancy?

We're technomancers—blending artificial intelligence with useful technology to create curious tools that empower the adventurous. Our mission: transmute intelligent, transparent, and powerful platforms that put you in control.

AI-Powered

Leveraging cutting-edge machine learning and LLMs to provide intelligent insights and automated decision-making.

Built for Adventurers

Designed for those who aren't afraid to explore new unknowns and push boundaries in their every day lives.

Open Source

Transparency is our foundation. All our projects are open-source, allowing you to audit, modify, and contribute.

On Tap

What we're building right now. Some of it is alive. The rest are design documents, strong opinions, and the scribblings of madmen. We think both options are worth showing you.

Alpha
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Permafrost

An on-chain DeFi grid trading system run by Frostbyte — an AI organism that reasons the way a brain does instead of the way a bot does. Where other machines just read the chart, Frostbyte reads the people behind it: who's moving, what they want, how they've behaved before, and what an event actually means versus what it looks like. Most systems recognize patterns. Frostbyte tries to understand psychology.

Built with:

Python FastAPI React TypeScript PostgreSQL Redis InfluxDB Docker

Permafrost is in alpha and the repository is private during development. Nothing here is financial advice, a performance claim, or an offer of anything.

In Development
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Vigil

A simple budgeting app that answers one question well: what do I actually have? Your bank balance, your balance after budgeted expenses, and your balance after subscriptions — three numbers, plus ninety days of history and a heads-up thirty days before a charge lands. Multi-bank ledgering is on the roadmap.

Built with:

React Native Expo TypeScript SQLite Plaid
Design Phase
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Sargasso

A local-first AI agent framework built on one unbreakable rule: no actor grades its own homework. The model that does the work never decides the work is done — an independent judge that never saw its reasoning checks it against criteria set before it started. Built on lessons borrowed from Hermes and OpenClaw, with the honesty made structural instead of optional.

In Development
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Trance

A desktop shell for Claude with a real theme engine and live usage monitoring — plus Parallel Think, built for the moment a long conversation has to hand off to a fresh one. The new chat gets most of the context and quietly gets some of it wrong. Parallel Think puts the two in the same room, or checks a decision against a chat carrying no context at all. Same principle as Sargasso, pointed at everyday work.

Built with:

Electron Node.js JavaScript Anthropic API
Design Phase
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Project Anamnesis

Our mad science project. An operating system built for a synthetic mind instead of a human one, and a language for speaking to it on its own terms. Sixty years of OS design assumed the machine was a tool for people. Anamnesis asks what the machine's own home would look like — and whether continuous identity is something you can actually build. We don't know if it's possible. That's the point.

Design Phase

Dicefire

Gamified disaster recovery exercises for businesses, run as a tabletop RPG with an AI dungeon master. Your team rolls for it. The AI never says no — it raises the cost and narrates the consequence. The fun happens during the session; the teaching happens in the post-mortem.

Some of this lives on our GitHub organization. Some of it isn't there yet.

How We Build

Production-grade tech stack. Modern, robust, and battle-tested.

Python

Backend & AI

React

Frontend

PostgreSQL

Database

Docker

Infrastructure

Claude AI

AI Integration

Grafana

Monitoring

FastAPI

API Framework

Redis

Caching

Frequently Asked Questions

Everything you need to know about Highball Technomancy and our products.

Our Company

What is Highball Technomancy?
Highball Technomancy is an AI team focused on building intelligent tools of all kinds spanning whatever catches our eye. We like to blend artificial intelligence with an array of technologies, to create powerful, transparent platforms for developers, adventurers, hobbyists, hackers, and people named Gary.
Are your products open-source?
We believe in transparency and community-driven development. Some of our projects are fully open-source, while others (like Permafrost during early development) are private with invitation-only access. Check our GitHub organization for available open-source projects, but pardon our dust. We're still growing, after all.
How can I contribute or get involved?
We welcome contributions! Check out our GitHub organization for open issues, feature requests, and contribution guidelines. You can also reach out directly via email (see Contact section) if you're interested in collaboration opportunities or have feedback on our products.

Permafrost

Is Permafrost free to use?
Permafrost will be free and open-source once publicly released. Currently in private development, it will eventually be available for anyone to download, modify, and run. You'll only need your own exchange API keys and infrastructure to host it.
What cryptocurrency exchanges are supported?
Currently, Permafrost supports Coinbase. We're actively working on adding Binance, Kraken, and other major exchanges. Follow our development progress for the latest updates on exchange integrations.
How does the AI-assisted trading work?
Permafrost uses Claude AI to analyze market conditions and provide trading recommendations. The AI acts as a supervisory manager, reviewing strategies and suggesting adjustments. You maintain full control—the AI suggests, you decide.
Can I test strategies without risking real money?
Absolutely! Permafrost includes a comprehensive sandbox mode that simulates real market conditions. Test your strategies, refine your grids, and build confidence before going live. Sandbox mode behaves identically to live trading—just without the financial risk.
What technical skills do I need to run Permafrost?
Basic knowledge of Docker and command-line interfaces is recommended. If you can run Docker containers and follow setup instructions, you can run Permafrost. We provide detailed documentation and are building a more user-friendly installation process.
Is automated trading safe?
Trading, whether manual or automated, always carries risk. Permafrost provides tools to help you execute strategies systematically, but it cannot eliminate market risk. Always start with small amounts, use sandbox mode extensively, and never invest more than you can afford to lose. We are not financial advisors.
How can I get access to the private repository?
Permafrost is currently in private development with invitation-only access. We're testing with a small group of early users before public release. Contact us via email if you're interested in early access or collaboration opportunities.

Other Projects

What other products are you building?
We're actively developing additional AI-powered tools in the business sector! While Permafrost is our flagship product, we're exploring disaster recovery tools, artificial life systems, and other insane ideas, such as suborbital lobster cannons. Stay tuned for announcements.
Will future products also be open-source?
Our commitment to transparency extends to all our products. We aim to make our tools open-source whenever possible, allowing the community to audit, contribute, and benefit from our work. Some products may start private during early development but will eventually become publicly available. Some of our more ambitious products, however...well....we will just release those to the wild.

Contact & Support

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