John Forfar

John Forfar

AI Engineer at OwnX · Melbourne, Australia · Davao, Philippines

I build sovereign local AI: AI that runs on hardware you own instead of someone else’s cloud. And I teach thousands of developers how to run it themselves.

15+ yrs
Engineering
BHP → Solana → decentralised AI
65+
Engineers led
Infrastructure automation, BHP
~3,000
Hackathon participants
OpenX Network global hackathon
50,000+
Newsletter subscribers
Technical newsletter, OpenX Network / Openmesh
2,000+
Developers mentored
Discord, workshops, accelerators
Selected work

What I have built

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On YouTube

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Writing

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I Put 9 AI Agent Engines on One Box With Zero Cloud - Which One Actually Finishes the Job?
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I Put 9 AI Agent Engines on One Box With Zero Cloud - Which One Actually Finishes the Job?

I put a team of 8 AI employees on one small box and ran them overnight

I put a team of 8 AI employees on one small box and ran them overnight

30+ Open Source Apps That Kill Your Subscriptions - The OwnOS App Store!

30+ Open Source Apps That Kill Your Subscriptions - The OwnOS App Store!

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