SKYe Technologies R&D is run by James McLoud, based in LaGrange, Ohio. It's a solo operation — one person, directly involved in every engagement, from the first conversation through to the shipped tool.
The actual engineering — architecture decisions, debugging, infrastructure — gets done by directing Claude, Anthropic's AI, as a hands-on build partner. James defines the problem, scopes the fit, and makes the calls; Claude does a lot of the heavy lifting on the technical side. It's an honest way of working, and it's part of why a solo shop can move fast without cutting corners.
Internally, SKYe runs its own private local AI stack — Ollama, Qwen 2.5 14B, Open WebUI, and a retrieval system over its own knowledge base — built from scratch on consumer hardware. That same local-first thinking carries over to client work whenever privacy or data control actually matters: your material stays under your control by default, not routed through a black-box subscription.
The philosophy is simple: start with a real, specific problem, not a product pitch. Build the smallest thing that actually solves it. If it doesn't need to be complicated, it won't be.