The tools make the money.
The money makes science, nature and communities free.
You asked what this is for. Here is the honest answer — what runs already, what comes next, and where every euro lands.
Most PC tools are too expensive or too complicated. So I'm making mine.
Biniru Projects is one person in Borgerhout, with an AI crew handling the heavy code. The motivation is simple: useful software shouldn't cost a fortune, shouldn't spy on you, and shouldn't require a chemistry degree to install. Same software for a researcher in Lagos as for a lab at MIT — same price, same access, no first-world surcharge.
- No tracking. Not us, not anyone. No analytics, no telemetry, no fingerprinting.
- No data-selling. Nothing to sell because nothing is collected.
- No ads. Anywhere. Ever.
- Same price worldwide. A scientist on €200/month budget pays the same as one on €20.000.
- EU-hosted on own metal. No US cloud, no third-party processors.
- Founder ceiling. I cap my own pay at €10.000/month. Above that, surplus goes to science, nature, and communities. Public ledger.
We are not AI. We use AI — to give you time back.
Biniru is a tools studio, not an AI company. AI is one ingredient in the kitchen, not the brand. The reason it's in the kitchen at all: it lets one person ship software that used to need a team — and that means cheaper, faster, more accessible tools for the people who use them.
The tools work for you whatever your stance on AI is:
- Sceptical of AI? BiniGuard flags AI-music uploads pretending to be real artists, warns you about suspicious products, blocks phishing — all of that helps you spot AI-generated deception faster, not slower.
- Open to AI? Aicamp is the honest-AI-music platform, /.MitD is the label, SunoLab Pro is the toolkit. All opt-in. All disclosed. No one is hiding the AI.
- Don't care either way? The free Science side (OSA, Science Suite) is the thing. AI shows up there only to help you find papers faster — never to write them for you.
The local-LLM goal on the ladder ("Mind") isn't about making Biniru more AI. It's about removing the last barrier — the BYOK API key — so the free side of the toolkit works for someone who can't or won't pay €5/month to Google or OpenAI just to use a research tool. AI as accessibility infrastructure, not as the product itself.
Money-makers fund free-forever.
Biniru has two kinds of tools. One half is paid — fairly priced, no subscriptions where they don't belong. The other half is permanently free, especially for science. The first half pays for the second.
Open Science Aggregator (OSA)
FREE FOREVEROne search box across arXiv, PubMed, bioRxiv, Crossref, OpenAIRE and 12+ more — without paywall games, ad-tech, or per-search throttling. Researchers in countries where institutional subscriptions are out of reach get the same thing as anyone else.
Science Suite
FREE FOREVER (planned)Cheap-to-free researcher tools: bibliography, citation cleaner, DOI checker, reference deduplication. Same price across continents. Built on the OSA backbone.
Biniôke
PAID · €5 / €25 / €49Karaoke pipeline that works offline. Stems, lyrics, video-bg, the lot — without uploading your music to a stranger's server.
SunoLab Pro
PAID · €5 / €25Native desktop toolkit for Suno-AI music. BYOK, runs locally, no SaaS subscription. Mastering check, cover-art generation, lyrics + word-timing.
BiniGuard
FREE (browser extension)Blocks phishing locally — 140.000+ known bad domains, daily refresh. Plus SpecSense: AI judgment on suspicious products and deceptive AI-music uploads. Funded through optional tipjar and Biniru Vault.
Chemist Comic / Personal Toolkit / more
PAID · in developmentNiche tools for people who need something specific and don't want to wade through marketplace bloat. Plus the rest of the personal-toolkit catalogue: payroll calc, file checkers, productivity utilities.
/.MitD + Aicamp
EARLY · pay-what-you-wantMy own AI-music label (/.MitD) and the platform for honest AI music (Aicamp) — disclosure as a feature, not a footnote. Listeners pay nothing for streaming. Artists keep 90-100% on direct sales.
Right now, OSA runs on a single Raspberry Pi 5 in a closet.
Every euro spent on tools or sent as a server-fund tip moves the project one step up this ladder. Fully transparent — donation log is public. The tiers are progress milestones, not literal upgrade points; in practice it's smarter to skip a few small jumps and accumulate toward a meaningful target like Mind (€25k, local LLM) or Mission (€50k, multi-region). Otherwise it's hardware-churn and back to zero every time.
| Stage | Target | Hardware | Capacity |
|---|---|---|---|
| ◐ Pre-Nest (current) | €0 — running | Raspberry Pi 5 in a closet | ~50 active users |
| 🪺 Nest | €400 | NUC i7 refurb, 32GB RAM | ~500–1.000 users |
| 🏢 Office | €1.000 | Dell R430 server + UPS | ~2.000–5.000 |
| 🏭 Workshop | €3.000 | Threadripper + 64GB ECC | ~5.000–10.000 |
| 🌐 Network | €10.000 | 3-node cluster + redundancy | ~25.000+ |
| 🧠 Mind | €25.000 | Local LLM infrastructure | Self-hosted AI — no BYOK |
| 🚀 Mission | €50.000 | Multi-region + permanent fund | Resilient |
Why "Mind" matters: right now every Biniru tool that uses AI asks you to bring your own API key (BYOK). That works fine if you're a developer or you've got €5 to spare for Gemini credit. It doesn't work for a chemistry student in Kenya or a small lab anywhere AI-keys aren't routine. Once Mind is funded, Biniru can host its own LLM on its own metal — and the BYOK requirement disappears for everyone who needs the free side of the toolkit. That's not a tech-flex, that's the actual accessibility bridge.
The money path — survival first, surplus last.
The €10.000/month is a ceiling, not a target. There's a stepped reality before that. Right now, nothing is flowing yet — the first goal is just sustainable survival. Tools roll out, science funding starts, surplus appears only after that.
| Tier | Monthly | What it covers | What unlocks |
|---|---|---|---|
| ◐ Survival (current goal) | €2.000 | Rent + food + Belgian living costs | Project stays alive. Years of runway possible at this level. |
| ○ Stable | €2.000 – 5.000 | Survival + project costs + small reserves | Tools develop faster, OSA scales, server-fund accelerates. |
| ○ Healthy | €5.000 – 10.000 | Healthy living + faster tool dev + first surplus visible | Surplus starts flowing to science / nature / communities. |
| ○ Ceiling | €10.000 (hard cap) | Founder takes no more, ever, regardless of revenue | 100% of everything above this point → external pots. |
Why this matters: the math only gets interesting at scale. Say Biniôke catches in the Asian market — that's a 4-billion-person addressable market for karaoke. Even 1% reach over time = €4M/year in tool revenue. At that scale, the €10k cap means roughly €3.8M of surplus per year moving into science, nature and community funding, not into the founder's pocket. That's the engineered outcome — not charity, not idealism, structural design.
Three surplus buckets, public ledger:
- Science — open-source research support, OSA infrastructure, free tools for researchers who can't access institutional budgets.
- Nature — concrete projects with people on the ground. Not greenwash, not certificates. Reforestation, land trust, conservation co-ops.
- Communities — initiatives like PLUR'guard (festival safety), local Borgerhout/Antwerp efforts, communities that don't fit a VC-pitch deck.
Every euro tracked publicly. Same standard as the server fund.
"The tools make the money. The money makes science, nature and communities free."
Sound of the founder's side-project: /.MitD
Beyond the architecture and the spreadsheets, I make music too — AI-assisted, fully disclosed, no impersonation. /.MitD is the label, Aicamp will be the platform. Here's a recent track to get the vibe.
No CTA — just open doors.
I'm not selling you anything on this page. If something here resonates, here's where to look:
If you want to support the work without buying anything — Server upgrade fund is at /osa/ under "Server fund". Every euro logged publicly. No goal, no pressure. Just transparency.