Le Space Automation

Compute and data, back in-house

That is the core of local-first peer-to-peer, and it is what we do: your data stays with you, and it is computed where it lies — on your devices, not on somebody else's servers. Your team and your business partners get it from you directly, device to device; a relay at most brokers the connection. And continuously, not in a backup window at night, every change travels encrypted into the archive: decentralised by preference — and, if you want it, a second copy with a classic cloud store such as Amazon S3, Google or Azure, which we build on request.

The rule behind it is simple: compute comes back in-house, and outside the house there is only ciphertext — whether it is hosted centrally or decentrally. The one exception we name: the language model. It runs locally, or with a provider of your choice, and then only gets what you hand it redacted.

The sums have turned around

Off-the-shelf software existed for one reason: building your own was unaffordable, and maintaining it even more so. First you bought it on a CD and paid once, then you rented it as a cloud subscription — the logic stayed the same: better to bend the business to the software than the software to the business. With AI agents, what used to cost months now takes days — and upkeep, the true killer of custom software, becomes routine work that runs. So the case for off-the-shelf and for the subscription falls away, piece by piece. Not every cloud tool is replaceable tomorrow — but the list of what pays off as an in-house solution grows every month.

Add two reasons that have nothing to do with money. With rented software your data sits with third parties, often under US law — every data-protection review becomes a supply-chain review. And when the provider raises prices, retires the product or gets sold, you negotiate from the weakest position: without your software, and with your data in their hands.

“Data is safer in the cloud” — true against the laptop, and against a server of your own

The second argument for rented software was safety: backups, redundancy, an operations team. Fair — against a single laptop, and just as fair against the server in the back room: small and large companies alike moved it to the cloud because patching, backups and round-the-clock duty were not their business. We do not bring that server back. With us, local does not mean one device but all of yours: they carry the same data and reconcile among themselves, with no server in between. And every change travels encrypted into a decentralised archive, from which a new device gets everything back with your passkey. That is the data centre's redundancy — only nobody but you holds the key. Today the archive sits encrypted on Aleph Cloud; Filecoin Onchain Cloud and Lighthouse are in the works. And whoever wants it gets a second copy with a classic host — Hetzner, Amazon, Google, Microsoft —, built on request, ciphertext there too: the provider holds a copy it cannot read.

The cloud, by contrast, is a honeypot: one breach at the provider hits every customer at once, and the provider sees everything in the clear. That place does not exist with us — no server, no password, only ciphertext in the archive. What remains is your device; you protect it with rented software just the same, because that is where the browser runs your session.

Said honestly: this holds once a second device or the archive is set up — a single laptop without an archive is as vulnerable as ever. Which is why archiving is part of the set-up with us, not a pro tip. And you keep browser and operating system current yourself; we patch no servers, because there are none.

What we automate

• Receipt flow and pre-accounting — with Le Space Belege as a ready building block: collect receipts, match payments, hand over the DATEV package
• Quotes and invoicing, with payment matching
• Post and mail intake: sort, extract the data, file, draft replies — never sent unchecked
• Data transfers between systems that do not know each other: CSV, interfaces, portals
• Recurring reports and evaluations
• Replacing single subscription tools with a tailored tool of your own

How the agents work

• Agents write and maintain the code; people set the goals and check every result. We answer for what runs — not the model.
• Every change lives versioned in Git: traceable, revertible, with its reason.
• Automated tests are the net: whatever the agents change has to prove nothing breaks before it reaches you.
• Open source wherever possible — checkable instead of taken on trust. The value is not in the code but in it running, and in someone standing behind it.
• Your model, not ours: the AI runs locally or at a provider of your choice, and your data stays in house — as with Le Space Belege.

Step by step, not big bang

We start with one process, not your whole IT. The current solution keeps running alongside until the new one has proven itself in daily use — only then is the next process due. And you can cancel without loss: if you cancel us, you keep the software, the source code and your data. With a subscription you keep an export file.