Built by someone who reads the hard things
I’m a physics PhD who has spent a career reading dense material for a living — papers, patents, technical specifications. I wrote and filed my own patent applications, nine of them, which means I know exactly what it is to depend on actually understanding a large, hostile pile of documents, and exactly what it costs to fall behind one.
SCL exists because the tools on offer asked me for a trade I wasn’t willing to make: hand your library — and with it your line of thinking — to a datacenter, or drown. I built the third option: the AI comes to your documents, on your machine, and answers to you.
Why it’s built the unusual way
Most AI is cloud-first because that is how the vendor monetises your data and amortises its datacenters. SCL is the opposite by design — local-first, private by architecture. A cloud competitor can’t copy that without abandoning the business model it runs on. The architecture is the promise: privacy you can verify, not a policy you have to believe.
The company
ShortCut Linking, Inc. is a Delaware C-corporation. We build in the open, we name what is still rough, and we’d rather you trust us than be impressed by us.