Value before code
Readiness reviews, process redesign and an automation roadmap a board, a founder or a ministry can fund. Build, buy or partner, decided on evidence.
Open weight AI, free software and Linux Mint for builders across Asia.
Bishop, Rook & Knight is an open source foundation based in Pattaya, on the Gulf of Thailand. We turn open models and free code into working systems that a clinic, a school, a firm or a district office can own outright.
What we do
Most organisations do not need another subscription. They need someone to find where AI genuinely helps, wire it into the tools already in use, and stay until it works. We follow five steps, and publish what we build so others can reuse it.
- 01
Identify
Map the daily work, find where time and money leak, and choose the few changes that pay back first.
- 02
Integrate
Connect ledgers, inventories, records and inboxes so one version of the truth exists.
- 03
Implement
Ship an early version into real hands within weeks, on hardware the owner controls.
- 04
Monitor
Track accuracy, drift, usage and benefit, so problems surface before users notice.
- 05
Improve
Update models, retrain staff and hand over documentation a local technician can follow.
Programmes
Six areas of work, each released under free licences and built on open weight models where AI is involved.
Models inside your walls
Assistants, document search, decision support and agents running on open weight models on your own machines. Confidential files never leave the building.
Stock, orders and ledgers
An AI layer over the systems already running, and complete open platforms where none exist: inventory, purchasing, invoicing, supply chain and plant data.
Safe by design
Access control, leak prevention, audit trails, model and data security. AI that a regulator, an auditor or a patient can trust.
Care after launch
Benefit tracking, drift monitoring, usage oversight, updates and retraining. A partner for the long term rather than a handover and goodbye.
Linux Mint, ready to teach
Prepared machines for clinics, classrooms and offices that run well on ordinary hardware, plus workshops so people keep them running themselves.
Work behind us
Systems our founder and team have shipped before and alongside the foundation. Organisations stay unnamed; details are shared in conversation.
Investment firm
A private AI engine the firm owns outright
An on-premises platform from GPU selection to inference serving, retrieval over research libraries, memo and deck drafting from chat, and an evaluation harness. Two modes keep proprietary work physically apart from web research.
- 20 users in production
- 96GB workstation GPU
- Bought once, no seat licences
Investment team
Deal flow, portfolio and team in one stack
A pipeline tracker with approval workflows, a portfolio manager with live pricing and a daily partner report, a weekly workstream portal and an investee news tracker, all behind single sign-on.
- 4 platforms live
- Daily automated reporting
- Reusable engines
Family office
Public face, private tools
A brand website with a private family portal blueprint behind it, and a structured products workbench with Monte Carlo pricing, assisted research and branded reports.
- 8 page site
- Workbench in use
- Portal blueprint
Beverage distributor
An operating system for a sales force
Spreadsheets replaced by one platform: order entry reconciled against warehouse invoices, receivables ageing, inventory sync, tastings, commissions, territory maps, an AI sales coach and outbound voice agents.
- 571 active accounts
- 89 API routes
- 23 tables
Fashion label
An ERP that made the shop tell the truth
Goods received, transfers, purchase orders, invoicing with VAT and loans for shoots, with two way sync to the online store. Six years of sales reconciled, and the monthly leadership report now takes one click.
- 12 locations and channels
- 97.8% history linked
- 53 screens
Public hospitals
Inventory for a national health network
Earlier in the founder's career: pre-sales lead for a medical inventory system covering 1,300 public hospitals, and digital records, laboratory and billing projects at 500+ hospitals in six Asian markets.
- 1,300 hospitals
- 6 markets
- Records to billing
Who it is for
Medical practitioners
Clinic records, pharmacy stock, claims and scheduling that keep working when the internet does not.
Students and schools
Linux Mint labs, coding courses and a private tutor model that runs on the school's own server.
Entrepreneurs
Inventory, orders, invoicing and a sales assistant for a shop, a workshop or a distributor, without monthly fees per seat.
Finance
Firms holding confidential information get research, deal flow and portfolio platforms that stay inside their perimeter.
Industry
Plant readings turned into output, energy and downtime signals, maintenance before breakdown and parts demand forecasts.
Governments and servicemen
Public offices and veterans get systems they can audit, translate and maintain without a foreign vendor's permission.
Across Asia, the goal is some of the best systems in the world, made close to the people who use them and owned by them.
Why open
A clinic, a school or a district office should not stop working because a licence lapsed or a foreign cloud bill went unpaid.
- Weights you can download sit on machines you control.
- Code you can read can be audited, repaired and taught.
- A web nobody gates keeps the door to all of it unlocked.
How to take part
Bring a problem, a skill or a spare machine. Maintainers, partners and first projects are welcome.
- Bring a problem
- A clinic, school, office or business with work that should be easier. We start there.
- Pull requests
- Fix a bug, add a feature or improve a model pipeline.
- Documentation
- Guides that a nurse, a teacher or a clerk can follow.
- Translations
- Interfaces and manuals in Thai, Hindi, Bahasa and every language people actually use.
- Hardware
- Spare laptops, small servers and single board computers for testing.
- Teaching
- Workshops and classes, in person or online.
Founder: Arjun Sharma
A dozen years on the tools before the foundation: 4G networks, a computer science classroom, hospital ERP across Asia, an MBA in Hong Kong, then private AI for investment firms and family offices.