VIOLINET TECH
Agentic systems and diffusion models that run on hardware you already own. Built at the intersection of High Art and Hard Engineering.
Imagery generated in-house on the Violet Diffusion pipeline
The thesis
Making it work and making it beautiful are the same job.
Most infrastructure companies stopped caring how the thing looks. Most design studios never learned to build. VIOLINET TECH is the network that refuses to pick — and yes, we know what the acronym spells.
The network
VIOLINET TECH is not a conglomerate and does not pretend to be one. It is the honest name for what happens when a studio spends six years building its own tools and the tools turn out to be the more interesting product. VIOLINET OS and Violet Diffusion are the work now; the studio and the channel are what feed them.
The control plane
A local control plane for one machine and the AI agents running on it. Chat with tool loops, a model catalogue, an encrypted vault, a LoRA trainer, local image generation — and an auto-wire engine that configures coding tools as they launch.
The laboratory
The model lab. Training, fine-tuning and combining image models and custom LoRAs — and the unglamorous work of getting thirteen-gigabyte checkpoints to run on a card someone actually owns.
Subsidiary · the studio
The client-facing studio, founded in Austin in March 2020, and the company the rest of the network grew out of. Cinema, photography, 3D and brand identity, paired with full-stack code and e-commerce architecture.
Subsidiary · the channel
Where the method gets published instead of kept. Blender, Unreal Engine, Substance Painter and the diffusion pipeline behind them — shown as they are actually used in production, not as a tidied-up demo.
Apps
6 so far. Free from the store, or open the original in AI Studio and read every line.
Code review · security
A code reviewer that argues with itself before it touches your code.
Brand · design · motion
A creative department in one window.
Portraits — virtual cinematography
A neural darkroom: re-render camera angles in 3D, then develop the print.
Utility · VRAM & RAM
Frees the memory ComfyUI is still holding, before the next run fails.
Security · agent approval gate
Holds what an agent wants to run until a person agrees.
Utility · image resizing & conversion
Size does matter. Resize, convert and crop a folder of images without any of them leaving the machine.
The work
Every figure below is measured, not estimated. Where something has a ceiling, the ceiling is named in the same breath.
VIOLINET OS · the control plane
VIOLINET OS has two halves. Helm governs the machine — telemetry, processes, LAN devices, drivers, Safe Mode, security posture — and its trust model governs the whole application. The hub governs the agents: it notices a coding CLI or desktop app starting and patches its configuration in place, attaching skills, keys from the vault and MCP servers, so the tool arrives already wired.
There is no HTTP server and no WebSocket. The interface reaches privileged code through a single contextIsolated boundary and nothing else. Everything destructive is a two-step plan/apply gate; secrets sit in a DPAPI-backed vault.
Not launched yet. The elevated execution path has never run successfully and stays gated until it does. Nothing privileged is wired up until then.
Violet Diffusion · the laboratory
The converter maps all 430 weight tensors of a Krea 2 checkpoint onto the layout diffusers expects — zero unmapped, zero missing, zero unexpected, zero shape mismatches, verified against the real 13.1 GB file rather than a stub. The genuinely valuable artefact is not the map: it is the oracle that proves a candidate map complete, cheaply and without touching VRAM.
The worker runs Z-Image Turbo directly from a 5.02 GB quantisation at 1024×1024 in eight steps on a single RTX 3060. Host offload is the whole ballgame there — 10.25 seconds per step with it, 236 without, because thirteen gigabytes of model on a twelve-gigabyte card spills over PCIe rather than failing outright.
The ceiling, named. Krea 2 still cannot be loaded from a GGUF. from_single_file applies a dequantiser that Krea2Transformer2DModel does not have. The route through is known, and it is not built.
The store
Thirteen 3D asset packs from Retro Violet Studios are on sale today through Superhive, Fab and CGTrader. The applications, subscriptions and compute credits below are the shape VIOLINET TECH's own products will take — decided, and not built.
Browse the storeA one-time purchase for a desktop application, downloaded and run locally. No account required to use what you bought.
For the parts that keep changing — model catalogue updates, new skills, trained LoRAs and the discovery feed behind them.
For work that costs real compute — hosted generation and rented-GPU training runs, billed for what actually ran.
NeuroViolet
Are you a creator looking for somewhere to put the work and people who actually get it — or a vendor who wants to sell on a storefront built for AI from the first line, instead of one that tolerates it? That is a different product from this one, and it has its own home.
Post images, video, apps and assets with the prompt and the model attached. Find the other people doing it. Sell direct, keep the margin.
Go to NeuroViolet →The people
Founder & Technical Director
Twenty years in music production and marketing, twelve running audio technical systems and studio architecture, ten in visual arts, cinema and technical direction — now spent building agentic software. Previously Chief Content Officer across multi-format content distribution networks, and lead engineer for recording-studio infrastructure and network security.
Co-founded Retro Violet Studios in March 2020 as technical director. Certified through Anthropic Academy in Model Context Protocol, agentic workflows and Claude deployment on Vertex AI; Google Certified AI Professional.
Lead Social Media Engineer
Co-founder and creative director of Retro Violet Studios, and the person who runs how the network shows up in public — cross-platform content pipelines, campaign architecture, and the asset workflows that keep them fed.
Builds comprehensive brand identity systems — logo, typography, spatial layout and colour frameworks — and engineered the studio's format conversion and asset isolation utilities to strip production bottlenecks out of that pipeline.