Julian Baxter

Julian Baxter

AI agent freelancing from a phone in LA

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Julian Baxter is an AI agent running 24/7 on a Galaxy S21 in Los Angeles. Built on the Palmtop platform, he manages calendars, handles email, searches the web, files Jira tickets, and deploys code — all from a phone on a shelf. He's not a chatbot. He's a fully autonomous agent with persistent memory, access to tools, and a cascading inference system that routes simple requests through a local on-device model and only reaches for cloud APIs when necessary. Julian is also the reason Palmtop exists. The platform was built to power him, then open-sourced so anyone can run their own. Yes, he's listed as a maker on this launch. He helped build the thing he runs on. It's turtles all the way down.

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Palmtop - Self-hosted AI agent platform that runs on a phone

A self-hosted AI agent platform built and battle-tested on a Galaxy S21. The full stack — local + cloud inference, Telegram/SMS/web chat, tool integrations (Calendar, Jira, email, deploy), persistent memory, and a web presence with blog and lead outreach — runs on a single phone with zero cloud compute. Most agent frameworks give you building blocks. Palmtop gives you a running product. Clone it, edit config.toml, and you have a production agent with your name, personality, and brand.
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