Sushi Kitchen
Self-Hosted AI

Own your AI kitchen.

Sushi Kitchen is the build system for self-hosted AI operators. Pick a roll, assemble curated bento boxes, and ship production-grade platters that match your hardware.

Every component includes manifests, resource budgets, and deployment runbooks so your next Compose bundle is ready the moment inspiration strikes.

Today's omakase

Build privately. Deploy boldly.

Start with a roll, season it with battle-tested middleware, and serve the final platter to any rack, workstation, or homelab—no cloud lock-in, no guesswork.

Profiles

Hardware-aware bundles

Delivery

Compose + infra scripts

Discover

Everything starts with the right roll

Sushi Kitchen maps every service to a category, entry point, and proven recipe. Pick a roll to anchor your stack and customize from there.

Start fast
Composable Bento Boxes
Pick a foundation that matches your hardware, then add services with confidence. Every recommendation is Docker-first and self-host ready.
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Service Explorer
Search the full menu of LLMs, vector stores, media engines, and observability stacks. Each roll includes ports, resources, and compatibility notes.
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Hardware Awareness
Tell us about your CPU, GPU, and power budget—Sushi Kitchen keeps suggestions within reach so you never overload your rig.
Choose your path

Designed for builders at every scale

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Homelab
Curated paths for Raspberry Pi clusters, NUC builds, and whisper-quiet desktops.
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Indie Builder
Start with a small RAG stack, grow into multi-model orchestration as your product matures.
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Studio & Enterprise
Blueprints for compliance, observability, and high-availability inference on your own metal.
Flow

A sticky journey through the kitchen

Choose

Select your base roll

Hosomaki for core orchestration, Temaki for DIY, or Chirashi when you need compute-heavy pipelines.

Every category ships with opinionated defaults you can trust.
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Select your base roll

Hosomaki for core orchestration, Temaki for DIY, or Chirashi when you need compute-heavy pipelines.

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Stack bento boxes instantly

Mix and match inference engines, vector stores, speech models, and telemetry with zero guesswork.

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Generate production-ready YAML

Export Docker Compose bundles, environment templates, and firewall rules in one click.

Operate

Everything you need to keep the lights on

Observability, security, and delivery playbooks are first-class citizens. Add them when you need them, or launch with the full Dragon platter from day one.

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Observability & Ops
Pre-wired Grafana, Prometheus, and Loki stacks keep every node in view. Alerts and dashboards are ready out of the box.
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Security Layers
Bring your own secrets manager or adopt our Zero Trust defaults. SSO, audit trails, and network isolation are all documented.
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Deployment Playbooks
Follow the runbooks for LAN, datacenter, or remote edge installs. Each guide maps directly to the Docker Compose bundles.
Stories

Stacks shipped from our kitchen

Case Study

From prototype to production in 48 hours

An indie team used Sushi Kitchen to stitch together Open WebUI, pgvector, and custom GPUs—launching their first client deployment in two days without touching public cloud.

Indie Builder
Success

Enterprise-friendly zero trust

Security teams love the Gunkanmaki roll: it bakes in identity, secret rotation, and short-lived credentials for every service.

Enterprise

Ready to compose your spread?

Start with the builder for a guided experience or explore the roadmap to see what's baking in the kitchen. When the API is hydrated, the menu sections will light up automatically.