Sean Spratt: what I build, and where it runs
Some of these run on my own machines with local models, some call cloud models, and some mix the two. Each card says which part is which. My machines: Dexter (Windows, RTX 5070 Ti, Ollama), Manyon (M1 Max, MLX) and a Mac mini.
🔥 The Daily Fire
A news video made at 7:00 every morning since March 2026. It reads the world-news feed, picks five stories, writes a sardonic editorial with a memory of earlier days, voices it, paints the pictures, cuts the video, and sends it by iMessage.
- Local: writing on Dexter (gpt-oss 20B, a custom "manyon" model); voice (Qwen3-TTS) and pictures (FLUX) on Manyon.
- Internet: only the RSS feed in and the iMessage out.
📜 Dexter's Papers
Dexter reads the new AI research papers each day, grades them and narrates the best ones in its own voice, with art for each.
- Local: sorting the papers and writing Dexter's narration (Hermes 3 8B), and the voice (Kokoro on Dexter's GPU).
- Cloud: grading (Grok, with Gemini as a second reader) and the art (Grok images).
🖥️ Dexter, the rig
The GPU box the other projects lean on. It serves its models to Manyon over the home network and Tailscale.
The 14 local models on it
qwen3-next 80B (two builds) · Qwen3-Coder-Next · a coder model · Hermes 4.3 36B (+16k context build) · hermes-think · Cydonia 24B · gpt-oss 20B · "manyon" (built on gpt-oss 20B) · Hermes 3 8B (base, 16k and 32k builds)
🐉 Manyon's agent (Hermes)
An always-on assistant on Manyon: answers by iMessage, relays messages and watches mail for deadlines.
- Cloud: the main model is Claude Opus. It started on a local model (gpt-oss), which kept stopping partway through tasks, so it moved to the cloud on Oct 13, 2026.
- Local: the mail watcher uses Dexter's model to pull out deadlines.
Private; nothing public to link.
🎶 Choir
A Mac app and CLI that sends one prompt to many models side by side (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, xAI, Groq, Mistral and more) and to local Ollama and MLX models, then saves and compares the runs.
🗓️ Maker calendar
A daily illustrated record of what I made: each day's work from git turned into cartoon panels.
- Cloud: written with Claude; the art comes from Grok.
🎪 FestivalIMS
An incident and operations system for festivals, hosted on Cloudflare. SOAK is using it again in 2027.
📚 Series Notes
Illustrated reader's companions to whole book series: every novel summarized, hundreds of painted frames, fact-checked.
Everything else I've made: sean-makes-stuff.com