Open beta
FastCast
Native Windows screen recording and streaming. Local MP4 recording, webcam overlay, and RTMP/RTMPS output without OBS complexity.
- Native Windows
- Hardware H.264
- RTMP/RTMPS
Sturm Technologies
Selected builds
Native Windows creator tools, local-first AI workflows, and practical software shipped under Sturm Technologies. This page is the proof of work: what has shipped, what is in flight, and the engineering underneath it.
The product family
Fast Series
Practical Windows tools for creators: recording, playback, clipping, compression, and short-form production. This is the commercial line everything else on this page feeds into.
Current lineup
Products in flight
Every tool below has a real product page and an honest status. Four of the five are downloadable today, and nothing is promised before it ships.
Released
FastPlay
Lightweight local video player for Windows. Fast startup, responsive seeking, hardware-accelerated decode. Free and open source.
- Rust
- FFmpeg
- D3D11
- WASAPI
Open beta
FastClip
Turns long videos into vertical clips locally: ranked highlights, 9:16 crops, and optional captions via on-device transcription.
- Rust
- Tauri
- FFmpeg
- whisper.cpp
Beta
FastCompress
Practical video compression for creators. Plain-English presets for Discord, email, and YouTube, with local FFmpeg processing.
- Rust
- FFmpeg
- Native GUI
Experimental
FastShorts
AI-assisted short-form video pipeline: story packages in, narrated and captioned vertical MP4s out, rendered on local hardware.
- FFmpeg
- ComfyUI
- Local-first
Fast Series overview
How the five tools fit together into one recording-to-shorts workflow.
See the series
Under the hood
Engineering systems and experiments
Infrastructure, research, and side builds that inform the products. Most are public on GitHub: read the code, run it yourself. The bigger systems have their own pages.
LocalAgent28
Local-first agent runtime for MCP workflows, with explicit trust controls, replayable runs, and built-in evals.
Rust
FaceForge
Privacy-first, local-only Windows app for AI face blur and video redaction, optimized for NVIDIA RTX GPUs. Public alpha available.
Python
VideoForge
Local-first Windows app for cleaning up, upscaling, reframing, and exporting video on your own NVIDIA GPU. Nine-stage pipeline, three engine routes.
Rust + Python
rave3
A Rust-native, GPU-resident AI video engine with a bounded pipeline: decode, preprocess, inference, then encode.
Rust
VideoForge-Native
Local-first image and video enhancement with deterministic execution paths.
Rust
trust1
A trust firewall for local-first agent tool execution.
Rust
runscope
A local-first dashboard for comparing runs, tracking regressions, and preserving provenance.
Rust
DNA-AI10
Local, privacy-focused bioinformatics. Analyzes raw DNA data against ClinVar, then a local Llama 3 model explains health risks in plain English.
Python
OmniBabel1
Local-first, real-time desktop translation and transcription for Windows. Nothing leaves your machine.
Python
redditresearcher
A CLI-first Reddit research pipeline that turns repeated pain patterns into structured product and content research.
Python
NeonSnake-ACR
A cyberpunk arcade game blending classic Snake with RPG progression, tactical combat, and boss battles.
TypeScript
opengotchi
An open-source desktop pet built with Tauri, React, TypeScript, and Rust.
TypeScript
copasty
Copy and paste, made into a small focused tool.
Python
Capabilities
What this work demonstrates
- Native Windows app development
- Rust production tooling
- Media capture, encode, playback, and export pipelines
- Local-first AI workflows
- Product packaging and public releases
- Licensing and monetization infrastructure
The products ship as the Fast Series
Recording, playback, clipping, compression, and short-form production for Windows. Need something custom built instead? Start a project on the build page.