CIDAH · Open-source Corporate AI
We didn't reinvent the wheel.
We put Ferrari wheels on the best stack in the world.
Credits
CIDAH is built on open-source infrastructure created by others. This page names them.
Claude
Letta
n8n
LibreChat
MongoDB
Caddy
Docker
OGL
We are here because we stand on the shoulders of giants.
Elon Musk · CBS 60 Minutes with Scott Pelley, March 30, 2014 · After Isaac Newton, 1676
"The wisdom here is not to say 'we've got to invent everything ourselves'. The wisdom is to know what 10% or 20% of the stuff we have to invent — and what we should go use that exists."
Steve Jobs — WWDC 1997
01 — The stack
The giants.
Chosen, not invented.
Each of these is a project we build on — and owe to. Every giant named. Every license honored.
01 · Intelligence
Claude
by Anthropic · 2021
Every substantive reasoning step in CIDAH runs through Claude. Chosen for Anthropic's commitment to Constitutional AI.
Opus 4.x
anthropic.com
02 · Memory
Letta
by Letta Inc. · 2023
Descending from MemGPT research at UC Berkeley's Sky Computing Lab. Gives CIDAH matter-scoped, auditable memory.
MemGPT lineage
letta.com
03 · Workflows
n8n
by n8n GmbH · 2019
Every deadline alert, every document classification, every routing rule. Visual when needed, code when required.
Fair-code
n8n.io
04 · Interface
LibreChat
by Danny Avila · 2023
Role-gated, self-hosted, privilege-aware chat surface. We extend it; we don't replace it.
MIT licensed
librechat.ai
05 · Database
MongoDB
by Merriman, Horowitz, Ryan · 2007
Document-oriented NoSQL database. Powers CIDAH's flexible schema for matters, clients, and legal artifacts.
Open-source 2009
mongodb.com
06 · Web Server
Caddy
by Matt Holt · 2015
Automatic HTTPS by default. Written in Go. Served trillions of requests. The simplest path from domain to secure traffic.
Auto HTTPS
caddyserver.com
07 · Containers
Docker
by Solomon Hykes · 2013
Containerization that changed deployment. Every CIDAH service runs in a Docker container — portable, isolated, reproducible.
Open-source
docker.com
08 · Graphics
OGL
by Nathan Gordon · 2019
Minimal WebGL library powering the flowmap distortion on this very page. A 60KB giant of web graphics.
MIT licensed
github.com/oframe/ogl
02 — Why this stack
Not our opinion.
The market's.
Selected public statements from people who use these components at scale. We include them because the decisions we made rest partly on decisions they made first.
Claude is incredible. Anthropic made a huge leap in coding and reasoning. We use it all over our company. Anybody who has a software company really ought to get involved and use it.Jensen Huang
CEO, NVIDIA — Davos WEF, January 2026
We are just starting to understand how to build compound AI systems around large foundation models.Ion Stoica
Professor, UC Berkeley · Co-founder, Databricks — on backing Letta, 2024
n8n was the big unlock. Tools like ChatGPT and Claude are great, but n8n is the thing that allows you to integrate AI into your work and your processes in a safe and controlled way.Ollie Scheers
CTO, Huel
n8n provides SOAR capability and workflows in a low-code model, as well as the ability to code for more complex workflows and integrations. It did everything that we wanted, all in one tool.Claire Van Hinsbergh
Cyber Operations Engineering Manager, Vodafone
03 — The position
CIDAH is open source — and it will stay that way.
Because the stack underneath is open. Because our clients deserve auditability. Because giants built this ground.
We don't claim the infrastructure. We claim what we built on top of it — and we release that, too, so the next firm doesn't have to start over. The THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES file lists every license, every attribution, every dependency. Read it. That's the whole point.