About

11 years of infrastructure.
One operating system.

Every system I've touched needed the same thing: automation that actually understands what it's doing. Enterprise identity at the Air Force. HPC at Boeing. Endpoint security at Tanium. The pattern was always the same — massive scale, fragile automation, no real intelligence.

AitherOS is the system I wish I'd had. An operating system where AI agents run like real programs — with memory, security, resource limits, and self-healing. Built on everything I learned managing infrastructure for hundreds of thousands of users.

David Parkhurst

Founder & Solo Engineer · Aitherium

USAF, 690th Cyberspace Operations Squadron

Enterprise Active Directory Services Functional Lead

Managed identity infrastructure across a $10B network. Automated at scale because there was no other option.

Boeing HPC Data Center

Systems Engineer

Tape archival infrastructure and high-performance computing systems. Built the plumbing that kept aerospace data flowing.

Tanium — Core Escalation Engineer

Enterprise Endpoint Security

40,000+ endpoints. Learned what happens when security doesn't scale — and how to make it scale.

Aitherium — Solo Founder

Everything

250K+ lines of code, 131 services, 15 agents — designed, architected, and built by one person using AI-augmented development.

Principles

What we believe.

Your data stays on your machine.

No cloud telemetry. No API proxying. No "anonymous usage data." AitherOS runs 100% on your hardware. Period.

Agents are programs, not prompts.

An agent should have memory, security boundaries, resource limits, and a lifecycle — just like a real process. That's what an OS provides.

Self-healing over monitoring.

Dashboards tell you something is broken. Pain signals fix it automatically. The system should heal itself before you even notice.

One person can build a platform.

AI-augmented development changes what's possible. AitherOS is proof that a solo founder with the right tools can build at the scale of a 20-person team.

Built solo. Scaled like a team.

250K+

Lines of Code

131

Microservices

15

Agents

1

Engineer

AI-augmented development isn't a buzzword here. It's how one person builds at the output of a 20-person engineering team. AitherOS is both the product and the proof.

Where this is going.

The AI industry has a platform problem. Everyone is building frameworks — Python libraries that help you chain LLM calls together. Nobody is building the infrastructure layer underneath.

Operating systems solved this for traditional software 50 years ago. Process scheduling, memory management, security boundaries, inter-process communication — these aren't optional features, they're the foundation everything else is built on.

AI agents need the same thing. They need GPU scheduling so they don't crash each other. Memory management so they can remember across sessions. Security boundaries so they can't access what they shouldn't. Health monitoring so they can heal themselves.

AitherOS is the operating system layer the AI industry is missing. And it runs on your hardware, not someone else's cloud.

See the platform running.

No pitch deck. No sales call. Just launch the app and see it live.