Koperwas designs and builds the hard stuff — real-time software, AI you can trust (local or cloud), mobile apps, and custom hardware. Sovereign when it counts, connected when it helps. No project too small or too complex.
Koperwas is a software and systems studio. We take hard problems — real-time coordination, AI you can actually trust, mobile and embedded products, measurement that stands up to scrutiny — and turn them into software that works: on your own hardware, in the cloud, or across both. From a focused prototype to a full platform, no project is too small or too complex.
When data can't leave the building, our systems run entirely on hardware you control — no cloud dependency, no per-message fees. When connectivity helps, we use it deliberately. Sovereignty is a capability you switch on, not a limit you're stuck with.
Deep roots in real-time systems mean software that responds now — live telemetry, streaming coordination, voice-native interfaces — built for people whose hands and eyes are already busy.
AI — local or cloud — that answers from real sources, cites them, and says plainly when it doesn't know, instead of inventing an answer that's expensive to be wrong about.
From custom firmware on an ESP32 sensor to a mobile app to a command board and audit chain — we design the whole path, and can prove every decision it made along the way.
From microsecond-sensitive real-time code and custom hardware to mobile apps, interpretable AI and validated behavioral science — a rare combination of technical range and research pedigree. Small prototype or complex platform, the same rigor applies.
Deterministic, time-critical software where response latency and reliability are non-negotiable — across real-time platforms including QNX.
Grounded AI systems with retrieval, citation and abstention built in — run fully on-premise for isolation, or reach a larger cloud model when it earns its place.
Native mobile apps and the backends behind them — location, voice, offline-first sync and hardware integrations, shipped to the App Store and Play Store.
Custom prototype hardware and firmware — microcontroller platforms including ESP32 and ESP8266, custom sensors and WiFi monitoring solutions, wired to the software that makes sense of them.
End-to-end design of resilient, multi-surface systems — device, firmware, API, app, command board and audit chain — on-premise, cloud, or both.
Two decades of published methodology for multi-event, time-based behavioral measurement — the science behind rigorous observational data.
A software developer and systems architect who has spent his career at the intersection of real-time software and behavioral science — and now, sovereign AI.
John Koperwas is a software developer and systems architect with a career built on making complex, time-critical software reliable in the field. His software design background runs deep in real-time systems, where determinism, latency and rock-solid reliability are the whole job — experience that spans real-time platforms including QNX, and reaches down to custom prototype hardware: microcontroller work on ESP32 and ESP8266 and bespoke WiFi-monitoring builds, wired to the software that makes sense of them.
That real-time discipline now drives his work in sovereign AI system architecture: local-first AI that runs on hardware the customer controls, grounded in their own documents, honest about what it doesn't know, and able to prove every answer. It's the same instinct — design for the hard constraint first, and the trustworthy behavior falls out of the architecture.
Alongside the software work, John has a long research pedigree in behavioral measurement and sequential analysis. With Professor Thomas L. Sharpe, he co-developed the BEST (Behavioral Evaluation Strategy and Taxonomy) software for real-time observational data collection and sequential analysis — used in research, teacher training, clinical practice and ABA worldwide — and co-authored the definitive methodology text with SAGE Publications.
Sharpe, T. L. & Koperwas, J. (2003). Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications. ISBN 9780761925606 — a step-by-step guide to computer-facilitated, multiple-event, time-based and sequential analysis of behavior. View on SAGE ↗
Real-time data collection and sequential-analysis suite (BEST Collection® / BEST Analysis®), distributed via Sage/Scolari and independently reviewed in the behavioral-science literature. Later evolved into ObserverWare ↗.
Each product solves a different problem — coordination, guidance, intake, measurement — but they share the same DNA: run it on your own hardware, keep the data in the building, and prove what it did.
A self-contained AI appliance — one box runs the model, your documents, the search and the voice. It answers from your own material, cites every source, and says plainly when it doesn't know. Pull the network cable and it still works.
Turn any phone into a live telemetry node. Track every person or asset on one command board, message them hands-free with voice, and prove where they were — self-hosted, with no third-party cloud. Built for events, field ops and lone-worker safety.
PORTAGE reads incoming citizen and staff requests, understands them with a local AI model, routes each to the right department by rules you write — and produces a signed, verifiable record of every decision. Deployed for municipal 311 as hello311.
Real-time tools for observing, coding and analyzing complex behavior — the modern evolution of the BEST / ObserverWare platform, trusted in research and practice since 2003. Now being rebuilt with neuro-symbolic AI and a local-first architecture.
The systems don't each reinvent the basics — they stand on a shared foundation. KAILib is that spine: a small, dependency-free library that unifies AI (local or connected), data, and networking behind one resilient surface, so every project — an offline appliance, a mobile backend, an embedded pipeline — starts hardened and stays honest.
Local models or networked services behind one provider-agnostic surface — streaming and caching included.
One interface over SQLite and Postgres: key/value, an append-only event log, parameterized SQL.
The network as a first-class citizen — guarded fetch, cloud services and search, SSRF-protected.
Retry, circuit breaker and concurrency limits on every call — model, database or network. And the base for ObserverWare_AI.
Real-time coordination, AI you can actually trust (local or cloud), a mobile app, a custom sensor, or a full platform — Koperwas builds for exactly those constraints. No project too small or too complex; briefings and demonstrations available, on your infrastructure or ours.
