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Category: Claude & AI

  • A self-hosted Visio, set up in an afternoon

    Diagrams are how infrastructure gets explained, and Microsoft Visio is the tool most organisations know. It is also licensed per seat.

    flows.libcsys.com is our answer: draw.io, the open-source diagramming tool, running on our own servers behind our single sign-on. It opens and saves Visio .vsdx files, ships the shape libraries engineers expect (network, cloud, flowchart, BPMN, UML) and costs nothing per user.

    How it came together

    Claude installed it, put it behind our sign-on, gave it a home in the LIBCSystems apps menu and checked that files open, save and share correctly. The whole thing went from idea to working service in an afternoon.

    This is the pattern we bring to clients: find the open-source tool that does the job, run it properly under your own domain and sign-on, and stop paying rent on software you only need to own.

  • From two photos to a 3D house in fifteen seconds

    From two photos to a 3D house in fifteen seconds

    We were given two photographs of a hillside villa: one from the air, one at dusk from the front. The question was whether we could turn them into a 3D model to build on.

    Two photos are not enough for a true 3D scan, which needs dozens of overlapping shots. So instead of scanning, Claude read the photos the way an architect would: three terraced levels stepping up the hill, long glass walls, deep rounded slabs overhanging the terraces, a courtyard and a driveway.

    What came out

    • A Blender model of 252 objects, generated by a script in about fifteen seconds.
    • Three renders: a dusk front view, a daylight aerial and a floor-plan cutaway with the roofs removed.
    • An export ready for a game engine, so the house can be walked through, not just looked at.

    It is a shell, not a finished design, and that is the point. The slow part of 3D work is the blank canvas. Claude removes it, and a person spends their time on the decisions that matter.

  • AI is my team: why Claude is revolutionary for a small business

    AI is my team: why Claude is revolutionary for a small business

    For most of computing history, a business got as much technology as it could hire people to run. Claude changes that equation, and we run LIBCSystems as the proof.

    Behind libcsys.com is a full business suite: single sign-on, mail, cloud files and calendars, documents, video meetings, team chat, IRC, mailing lists, diagrams, a blog, a public status page and analytics. It runs on infrastructure we operate ourselves, alongside dozens of other sites, with one senior architect in charge and Claude as the team.

    What “AI as the team” actually means

    • Claude does the work: builds and deploys services, writes and tests code, reads logs, traces faults and writes the documentation.
    • A person approves it: nothing that touches a client’s systems or speaks in someone’s name goes out without a human decision.
    • Everything is recorded: every change is committed, backed up first and verified live, so there is always a way back.

    Why that is revolutionary

    A small business can now have the systems a large one has, run with the same care, at a fraction of the cost. The skill that matters is no longer typing every command. It is knowing what good looks like, and holding the work to it.

    That is what we offer clients: AI-assisted operations, with a human who signs his name to the result.