Crucix: Self-Hosted Personal Intelligence Terminal for Cross-Domain Situational Awareness

Feed-monitoring setups often implode. Browser tabs pile up. Bookmark folders get stale. RSS feeds and scheduled searches overwhelm.

The problem with manual polling is it expects intelligence to fit your schedule. It doesn't.

Crucix works differently. It watches 27 feeds around the clock. Alerts you when something changes. You can even query it on your phone,

The key difference is you don't have to check; you're told. Worth a serious look.

What Crucix Is

Crucix is a self-hosted personal intelligence terminal monitoring 27 parallel feeds simultaneously. The coverage spans domains that most intelligence dashboards treat as separate tools: satellite fire detection, flight tracking, radiation monitoring, satellite constellation status, conflict event data, sanctions lists, economic indicators, live market prices across multiple asset classes, social sentiment.

The operating model is Jarvis-style persistent monitoring. The dashboard auto-refreshes every 15 minutes via Server-Sent Events. Configured thresholds push alerts to Telegram or Discord when monitored conditions change — a radiation reading above baseline, a flight diversion in a monitored region, a sanctions list update. You receive the notification without checking anything.

The LLM integration adds a command interface accessible from a phone. The command interface offers several functions. It generates a synthesized cross-domain summary of the current intelligence state. It actively queries all 27 feeds for anomalies and surfaces the most significant changes since the last check. No cloud dependency — the LLM runs locally or against a self-managed endpoint. Your queries and the intelligence data they process stay on your own infrastructure.

Feed Architecture and What It Monitors

Physical World Layer

The physical world layer taps into feeds like NASA's FIRMS for satellite fire detection, ADS-B for flight tracking, radiation monitoring networks, and satellite constellation status. These feeds translate real-world events into geographic coordinates, providing fire detection anomalies, unusual flight patterns, radiation spikes, and orbital changes. The sources, FIRMS and public ADS-B aggregators, are solid, and data quality is high.

Geopolitical and Financial Layer

This layer combines conflict events and sanctions lists with economic indicators and live asset prices. An analyst can watch a conflict escalate, see commodity prices move, and track sanctions all in one place. No need to piece it together from separate tools. Conflict events and sanctions lists, economic indicators, live asset prices are available.

Social and Signals Layer

The social and signals layer adds social sentiment feeds, which act as an early warning. Social sentiment doesn't confirm events but often precedes them. A spike in a monitored region is a prompt to check other layers for corroborating signals.

Alert Pipeline: Telegram, Discord, and LLM Commands

The alert pipeline serves as the operational core. Configure a threshold — for example, when radiation readings exceed the baseline, conflict intensity crosses a defined level, or a sanctions list change involves a monitored entity. Crucix sends a notification to Telegram or Discord when that threshold is crossed.

The notification reaches you wherever you are. You don't need to be looking at the dashboard.

The fundamental improvement over a dashboard-only model is significant. Dashboards require your presence, whereas alert pipelines require correct configuration.

You need to monitor conditions over time. Not snapshot them periodically. Dashboards can't do that.

The LLM command interface operates through messaging channels, such as Telegram or Discord on your phone. The /brief command returns a summary of all 27 feeds, providing the intelligence state at that moment, distilled into a brief. The /sweep command queries all feeds for anomalies, comparing current readings against baselines and surfacing significant changes.

Running /sweep from a phone, without a laptop, is a qualitatively different capability. Any dashboard requires a desktop session.

The LLM integration does not require a commercial API. It connects to a locally running model or self-managed endpoint. The natural language command capability is available. You ask questions in plain language and get synthesized answers.

Self-Hosted Deployment and Configuration

The deployment model for Crucix is straightforward for anyone comfortable with self-hosted tools. The GitHub repository at calesthio/Crucix contains the codebase and setup documentation. All feed aggregation, alert logic, refresh cycles, and LLM processing run on your own infrastructure. Nothing phones home. Query patterns, which feeds you are watching, what thresholds you have configured, what questions you are asking, are not visible to any external service.

The live demo at crucix.live is a good evaluation starting point. It runs the full feed set, demonstrates the dashboard and alert interface, before you commit to a local deployment. The demo removes the setup barrier entirely, helping you assess whether the tool fits your workflow.

Production deployment means owning the infrastructure. Updates, uptime, and configuration management are your responsibility. Updates, uptime, and configuration management are your responsibility. This is the expected operational model for self-hosted open source tools. Analysts should consider this when evaluating Crucix as a persistent monitoring solution rather than an occasional evaluation.

Workflows and Use Cases

Overnight Monitoring

Crucix is most effective when you're not around. Before logging off, review your thresholds, including radiation baseline, conflict intensity, sanctions watchlist, and market price bounds. Crucix monitors these continuously. If a threshold is crossed, you receive a Telegram notification. This returns to a prioritized alert, rather than sifting through 27 feeds, which is a meaningful improvement.

Breaking Event Correlation

The /sweep command is valuable. A big event hits, such as conflict, infrastructure, or market shock. /sweep shows all 27 feeds at once, providing a connected picture in seconds, with information on ADS-B flight diversions, fire detection spikes, social media sentiment, and market moves tied to conflict. Manual monitoring takes much longer.

Trader-Analyst Overlap

Crucix serves a rare use case where geopolitics meets markets. On one surface, you get real-time prices, conflict data, sanctions, and indicators, with no context switching. Commodity prices reflect conflict zones. Currencies react to sanctions. Market mood tracks events, all simultaneously and clearly. Radiation baseline, conflict intensity, sanctions watchlist, market price bounds.

Limitations and Honest Assessment

Feed quality varies across 27 sources. NASA FIRMS and ADS-B are solid, social sentiment and conflict event data can be spotty. They inherit issues from their providers.

Anomalies in reliable feeds like NASA FIRMS or ADS-B have a greater impact than anomalies in sentiment feeds. It is essential to know the source reliability before acting.

Crucix covers a lot of ground, with 27 feeds across eight domains. The feeds are not deep on any one thing. When Crucix flags something, such as weird ADS-B patterns or radiation spikes, you dig deeper with specialist tools. MarineTraffic provides vessel history, sanctions databases provide entity details, and conflict databases offer incident-level data. Crucix tells you where to look.

The self-hosting model is used. A live demo is available. Persistent monitoring means deploying, configuring, and maintaining the system yourself. Analysts are aware of the overhead, and it should be factored in.

Verdict

Crucix fills a gap. Cross-domain situational awareness with push alerts and LLM briefings, self-hosted, no licensing cost, is a unique setup. Commercial platforms with similar features are too expensive for most budgets.

Push alerts are key. Monitors that notify you when conditions change are more effective than dashboards that require manual checks. Crucix removes the need for constant polling, allowing one analyst to handle multi-domain monitoring.

The LLM command interface sets Crucix apart. You can get briefings and sweep results via Telegram, without needing a laptop. Web dashboards can't match this flexibility. For analysts on the move during breaking events, Crucix is a big upgrade.

You can try Crucix at crucix.live. If the feed works for you and self-hosting is feasible, check out the GitHub repo.

Best for analysts, journalists, traders, and researchers needing cross-domain monitoring with push alerts and LLM briefings without high costs. Live demo: crucix.live · GitHub: calesthio/Crucix