Furcate · platformNodes · governance · orchestration
THE
FURCATE PLATFORM
The nodes run at the edge, each under its own Furcate machine identity; Furcate Control orchestrates them across the local network. One architecture the operator owns end to end.
Furcate · platform
Furcate The nodes · edge to site | The nodes — Micro, Small, Base, Site — that sense and decide where the signal lives, from a milliwatt sensor to a small on-prem data centre. The substrate the rest is built on. |
Machine identity Built into every node | Every Furcate resource operates under a Furcate machine identity — a DID and a role minted on the operator's perimeter. Identity is part of the platform, not a vendor service. |
Furcate Control The orchestrator · separate app | Manages the local network, devices, firmware flashing, identity, and connectivity. CLI and desktop. |
Built on
| Local attestation & verification | Powers the immutable local ledger that records what each model saw and decided. Provable on the operator's perimeter — no central server in the loop. |
| Global connectivity · gated | Reaches beyond the local network only when the operator grants it. Closed by default; opening it is an explicit, scoped delegation. Where money has to move with the work, settlement runs on the Canton Network. |
Local by default · global by grant
How it composes
| Meshes | Nodes on one site form a peer fabric. They discover each other on the local network, then talk to each other directly. The operator picks the transport that suits the site. |
| Clusters | Many sites coordinate as one cluster. Each site keeps running on its own; the cluster layer is how they share what they choose to share. |
| Models ask models | When a small model needs more — a deeper read, a wider check, a richer modality — it asks a neighbour or a higher-tier node. No node has to hold the whole picture. |
| Content-addressed data | Models and large artefacts move by hash. Once a model is on one node, every other node can pull it from there. The same content goes to many nodes, fetched once. |
Local first · LAN second · off-edge by grant · always fail-soft