Crucix: a free, self-hosted OSINT intelligence terminal

What it is

Picture the wall of screens you see in a newsroom: fires spotted by satellite, planes in the sky, radiation readings, market prices, conflict reports, sanctions lists, the mood on social media. Crucix puts all of that on one dashboard. It pulls from 27 open data feeds every 15 minutes, and it runs on your own computer.

Connect it to an AI model and it becomes a kind of quiet lookout. When something meaningful changes, it messages you on Telegram or Discord, with alerts sorted by how much they matter. Type a simple command like /brief and it gives you a summary.

Why it caught our eye

This kind of overview used to belong to organisations with teams of analysts. Crucix is free, and the project sums itself up in one line we love: "No cloud. No telemetry. No subscriptions." Plenty of people seem to agree, judging by how quickly it has spread on GitHub.

If you just want a look, there's a public demo at crucix.live.

What it means for you

You probably don't need radiation readings. But if you import goods, sell abroad, or depend on flights and market prices, the idea is worth sitting with: an assistant that watches the world for you and only taps your shoulder when it counts. Even if you never install it, ask yourself which three signals you'd want someone watching for your business.

Words worth knowing

• Self-hosted: the software runs on your own machine, not on a company's servers.
• Open-source intelligence: useful information gathered from public sources, like satellite data or official lists.
• LLM: a large language model, the kind of AI behind tools like Claude.
• Telemetry: data an app quietly sends back to its makers about how you use it.