Quik Nation

Auset Platform • Clara AI • Quik Cloud
"The Mother that births products" — Infrastructure Architecture, March 2026
System Overview
The complete Quik Nation infrastructure — from architect to execution, from local Mac to global cloud.
53
Heru Projects
15
AI Models
3
Quik Cloud Farms
~$20
Monthly AI Cost
24/7
Autonomous
ORCHESTRATION EXECUTION AI MODELS PRODUCTION OPUS Architect / Requirements Claude Opus 4 requirements SONNET Planner / Task Prompts Claude Sonnet 4 task prompts HAIKU Dispatcher / Autonomous Claude Haiku 4.5 via AWS Bedrock (~$20/mo) dispatch Amen Ra Founder / Architect Authorizes Cursor Quik Cloud 2 i-0b156942c99392cc2 44.200.66.249 | t3.large agentic-loop.js Bedrock Haiku (Tier 0) + Ollama: Qwen 3B + Llama 3B Quik Cloud 3 i-008df0671017d78ec 100.55.154.135 | t3.large agentic-loop.js Bedrock Haiku (Tier 0) + Ollama: Qwen 3B + Llama 3B Quik Cloud 1 Mac M4 Pro (OPERATIONAL) 24GB RAM | 746GB Free | M4 Pro EAS Builds (iOS + Android) LLM: Qwen 7B (437 tok/s) Code Agent (complex tasks) Slack #maat-agents | #quik-cloud Groq Llama 4 Scout 17B 4 keys 4 separate accounts Cerebras Llama 3.1 8B 5 keys 5 separate accounts SambaNova Llama 3.3 70B 2 keys 2 separate accounts Google AI Gemini 2.0 Flash 1 key 1,500 req/day OpenRouter Qwen3 Coder 1 key Free tier Local Ollama Qwen 3B + Llama 3B Unlimited On each EC2 + Mac AWS Amplify Frontends (Next.js) CDN + SSL + Preview Deploys App Runner Production Backends Docker/ECR | Auto-scale EC2 Shared Dev/Staging Backends PM2 + nginx + SSL PostgreSQL RDS (us-east-1) Multi-tenant | Row-Level Security Cloudflare Workers AI Gateway Edge | Multi-model routing Yapit (PRIMARY) Black-owned | Virgin Islands | Global fallback Stripe Connect Fallback only 53 Heru Projects Born from Auset Platform
Three-Tier Agent Architecture
NON-NEGOTIABLE roles. Each tier has one job. Opus architects, Sonnet plans, Haiku dispatches.
OPUS
Architect
requirements.md
SONNET
Planner
task prompts
HAIKU
Dispatcher
BUILD FARM
Executes
Tier 1 — Claude Opus 4

Opus — The Architect

Writes requirements and high-level decisions. Does NOT write everyday code. Does NOT dispatch, monitor, or post to Slack. Talks to Amen Ra directly.

Requirements Architecture Cursor Auth
Tier 2 — Claude Sonnet 4

Sonnet — The Planner

Turns Opus requirements into farm-ready task prompts. Designs implementation approaches. Creates the work queue that Haiku processes.

Planning Task Design Work Queue
Tier 3 — Claude Haiku 4.5 via AWS Bedrock

Haiku — The Nervous System

Runs on EC2 via Bedrock (~$20/mo). Dispatches, reviews code, triages bugs, routes by complexity, generates PR docs, monitors dependencies, digests Slack. Does NOT need Opus permission. 24/7 autonomous — no laptop required.

Dispatch Code Review Bug Triage Bedrock 24/7
Quik Cloud — Clara Phase 0
Three Quik Cloud machines: 1 Mac M4 Pro + 2 EC2 t3.large. Haiku dispatches, reviews, and triages. Free APIs execute 24/7.
Haiku
Tier 0 (Bedrock)
13
API Keys
5+
Providers
2
Local Models
24/7
Autonomous
Quik Cloud 2 — Operational

Quik Cloud 2 (EC2)

Instance: i-0b156942c99392cc2

IP: 44.200.66.249 | t3.large | us-east-1

Ollama Running Qwen 2.5 Coder 3B Llama 3.2 3B Node.js 20
Quik Cloud 3 — Operational

Quik Cloud 3 (EC2)

Instance: i-008df0671017d78ec

IP: 100.55.154.135 | t3.large | us-east-1

Ollama Running Qwen 2.5 Coder 3B Llama 3.2 3B Node.js 20

API Provider Key Matrix

ProviderModelKeysAccountsStatus
GroqLlama 4 Scout 17B4 quikinfluence, quikcarry, quiknation, quikcarrental Working
CerebrasLlama 3.1 8B5 quikinfluence, quiknation, quikcarrental, quikevents, quikhuddle Working
SambaNovaLlama 3.3 70B2 quikinfluence, quikcarrental Working
Google AIGemini 2.0 Flash1 quikinfluence Working (1,500/day)
OpenRouterQwen3 Coder1 quikinfluence Working
Together-1 quikinfluence 401 Invalid Key
DeepSeek-1 quikinfluence 402 No Balance
Quik Cloud 1 — Mac M4 Pro Build Server
Dedicated Mac M4 Pro at Quik's location. OPERATIONAL since March 11, 2026. 24/7 builds, LLM inference, and code agent.
OPERATIONAL — Since March 11, 2026

Mac M4 Pro — Quik Cloud 1

Locked room at Quik's. Runs 24/7, no monitor/keyboard. Amen Ra has SSH remote access via Tailscale VPN.

M4 Pro Chip 24GB Unified RAM 746GB Free Disk Tailscale VPN macOS 15.5
Role 1

iOS + Android Build Server

EAS local builds. Xcode + Android SDK + Java 17. Auto-builds on develop branch changes via launchd daemon.

EAS CLI Xcode Android SDK --local builds
Role 2

LLM Inference

Qwen 2.5 Coder 7B at 437 tok/s + Llama 3.2 3B at 103 tok/s. 10-20x faster than EC2 t3.large.

Qwen 7B (437 tok/s) Llama 3B (103 tok/s) $0/month
Role 3

Code Agent

Runs agentic-loop.js with bigger, faster models. Replaces Cursor for complex debugging and architecture tasks.

agentic-loop.js Complex Tasks Replaces Cursor
Scope

Internal Only

Quik Nation Herus + client Herus (QCR, FMO, WCR, Site962, QuikCarry, DreamiHairCare, etc.). Public-facing Clara/Nikki inference goes through EC2s + cloud APIs, NOT the Mac.

Clara AI — Quik Intelligence
Every name is a thesis statement. Every interaction is an education. This is what separates Clara from every other AI.

"In 1994, Amen Ra had dinner with Clara Villarosa, Maya Angelou, Nikki Giovanni, and Cleo Parker Robinson — four great Black women, introduced by Clara."

C

Clara

THE AI — Like Claude

Named after Clara Villarosa, Amen Ra's mentor. Founded Hue-Man Bookstore in Harlem — connected people to knowledge. That's what Clara does.

M

Mary

Top Model — Like Opus

Named after Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune. Built Bethune-Cookman University from $1.50 and five students. Amen Ra graduated from there.

M

Maya

Balanced Model — Like Sonnet

Named after Dr. Maya Angelou. Said more with less. Balanced power with grace. The model that balances capability with speed.

N

Nikki

Quick Model — Like Haiku

Named after Dr. Nikki Giovanni. Loved Tupac so much she had "Thug Life" tattooed on her chest. No pretense, no apology. Fast and real.

Growth Roadmap

Phase 0 — Now

Bedrock Haiku + Free APIs

Haiku (Tier 0) dispatches + reviews via Bedrock. 13 keys, 2 EC2s, local Ollama for execution. ~$20/mo AI cost.

~$20/moLIVE
Phase 1 — Q2 2026

Quik Cloud + Llama 13B

M1 Mac running bigger models. 10-20x faster inference. Complex task handling replaces Cursor.

$0/moTODAY
Phase 2 — Q3 2026

Fine-Tuned Llama 70B

QLoRA fine-tune on SageMaker. Clara's own model trained on Heru codebases + cultural data.

~$30-170/moPLANNED
Production Infrastructure
AWS-native production stack with zero-downtime deployments and auto-scaling.
Frontends

AWS Amplify

Next.js 16 applications with React 19. CDN distribution via CloudFront. Preview deployments for PRs. Automatic SSL.

Next.js 16 React 19 CloudFront CDN us-east-1 + us-east-2
Production Backends

AWS App Runner

Docker containers from ECR. Auto-scaling 1-25 instances. Zero-downtime rolling deployments. 30-88% cost savings vs EC2.

Docker/ECR Auto-scale Express + Apollo
Dev/Staging

EC2 Shared Server

Multiple projects on shared infrastructure. PM2 clustering. nginx reverse proxy. Intelligent port management.

PM2 nginx Let's Encrypt SSL
Database

PostgreSQL (RDS)

Multi-tenant with row-level security. All tables include tenant_id. Sequelize ORM with DataLoader N+1 prevention.

Multi-tenant RLS Sequelize
AI Services

Cloudflare Workers AI Gateway

Edge-deployed multi-model routing. Workers AI + Groq + OpenRouter fallback chain. Free chat for all subscription tiers.

Edge Deploy Multi-model Free Chat
Secrets

AWS Parameter Store

KMS-encrypted secrets. No .env files in production. SSM paths: /quik-nation/shared/* and /quik-nation/build-farm/*

KMS Encryption SSM Parameters IAM Roles
Product Ecosystem — The Herus
53 projects born from the Auset Platform. Each Heru inherits the full platform: auth, payments, AI, notifications, deployment.
53
Total Herus
4
Revenue Now
7
Core Services
6
Consumer Apps
10+
Client Projects

Revenue Generating (Active)

QuikCarRental
QuikCarry
Site962
FMO

Core Services (Shared)

Clara (AI)
Tap-to-Tip (NFC)
QuikDollars (Payments)
QuikHuddle (Comms)
QuikInfluence (CRM)
QuikSign (Signatures)
QuikSession (Invoicing)

Consumer Verticals

QuikDelivers
QuikEvents
QuikBarber
QuikVibes
I Demand Beauty
World Cup Ready

Client Projects

DreamiHairCare
Empress Eats
My Voyages (PGMC)
PPSV Charities
Pink Collar
StacksBabiee
TrackIT ($1M+/yr)
Kings Luxury Services
MBPS
Sliplynk

Sibling Platforms (Planned)

NOI Platform (Ali AI)
HBCU Network
Church Network
Payment Architecture
Yapit is PRIMARY. Stripe is FALLBACK. This is the whole thesis — Black-owned financial infrastructure connecting the diaspora globally.

Customer

Pays for service

Yapit

PRIMARY — Processes First
Black-owned | Virgin Islands
Caribbean, Africa, Americas
only if Yapit fails

Stripe Connect

FALLBACK Only
Domestic US
Subscriptions (until Yapit supports)

Business

Receives payment

Yapit / YapEX

"This achieves the goal of what the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad wanted — the Black Man in America connect with the Black Man around the Globe."

Money In/Out Quick Pay Bulk Payout Escrow Invoicing Cards Liquid Cash API Commissions

Stripe Connect

Domestic US processing. Multi-tenant marketplace support. Used only when Yapit doesn't support the feature (e.g., subscriptions) or if Yapit call fails.

Subscriptions SCA Compliance Marketplace
Cost Architecture
Haiku via Bedrock for ~$20/mo. Opus + Sonnet unlimited on Claude Code Max (grandfathered). 90-128x leverage vs traditional team.
ResourceMonthly CostNotes
Claude Code Max (Opus + Sonnet)GrandfatheredUnlimited Opus + Sonnet — architecture, planning, complex code
Haiku via AWS Bedrock (Tier 0)~$20/moDispatcher brain — code review, triage, routing, monitoring, docs
Build Farm (2x EC2 t3.large)~$150/mo24/7 execution engine — no laptop required
Free AI APIs (13 keys, 5 providers)$0Groq, Cerebras, SambaNova, Google AI, OpenRouter
Local Ollama (Qwen 3B, Llama 3B)$0On existing EC2 hardware
Quik Cloud Mac (M1, 32GB)$0iOS/Android builds + Llama 13B inference
Cursor Pro (Amos — IDE only)$20/moVS Code integration for complex debugging
Total Monthly~$190/moReplaces $24,500/mo traditional team (128x leverage)
Future: Clara fine-tuned model~$30-170/moSageMaker inference endpoint
Why Bedrock Haiku?

The $20/month Nervous System

Haiku runs directly on EC2 via AWS Bedrock — IAM auth, no API key, internal AWS networking. ~5,000 operations/month for $10, or ~10,000 for $20. Handles: task dispatch, code review gates, complexity routing, tester bug intake, Slack digests, PR descriptions, cross-Heru impact analysis, dependency health monitoring, error log triage.

Amen Ra's machine is NOT required. EC2s call Bedrock 24/7 autonomously. Everything on one AWS bill.

Active Now

Phase 0 + Bedrock

Haiku (Tier 0) for dispatch + review. Free APIs for bulk execution. 13 keys, 5 providers, key rotation.

~$20/mo AI
This Month

+ Quik Cloud

M1 Mac for iOS/Android builds + Llama 13B local inference. Replaces Cursor for complex tasks.

$0 Added
Q3 2026

Clara's Own Model

Fine-tuned Llama 70B via QLoRA on SageMaker. Trained on all Heru codebases + cultural data.

~$30-170/mo
Glossary of Terms
Every name tells a story. Every term carries meaning. Kemetic terms, Clara AI naming, technical infrastructure, and business concepts.

Kemetic Terms (African / Ancient Egyptian)

Auset Kemetic European corruption: "Isis"

In our system: The Platform (boilerplate). The mother that births products. Every Heru app is born from the Auset Platform.

In Kemetic cosmology, Auset is the divine mother — she gathered the scattered pieces of Ausar and brought him back to life. The platform gathers all the pieces (auth, payments, AI, deployment) so products can live.

Ausar Kemetic European corruption: "Osiris"

In our system: The Ausar Engine — the feature registry and dependency resolution system. The foundation upon which everything is built.

Ausar is the lord of resurrection, the eternal king. He represents the foundation that persists. The engine that never dies, only transforms.

Heru Kemetic European corruption: "Horus"

In our system: Each product born from the Auset Platform. QuikCarRental is a Heru. Site962 is a Heru. DreamiHairCare is a Heru. There are 53 Herus.

Heru is the son of Auset and Ausar — born from the platform (Auset) and the engine (Ausar). Each Heru inherits the full power of the platform and goes out to conquer its domain.

Ra / Amen Ra Kemetic

In our system: The AI Intelligence layer. Also the founder's name (from the Ausar Auset Society).

Ra is the sun — the source of light and intelligence. Amen Ra is the hidden sun, the power behind everything you see. The AI that powers every Heru without being seen.

Maat Kemetic

In our system: Testing and validation. The MaatValidator checks types, environment configs, and deployment readiness. Also the name of the three-tier orchestration protocol.

Maat is truth, justice, balance, and order. In the Hall of Judgment, the heart is weighed against Maat's feather. Our code is weighed against Maat's validation before it ships.

Tehuti Kemetic European corruption: "Thoth"

In our system: Documentation and knowledge management. The keeper of records.

Tehuti invented writing (Medu Neter). He recorded everything — the words of the Neteru, the laws of nature, the stories of the people. Our docs system carries his name.

Ptah Kemetic

In our system: CLI and scaffolding tools. The commands that create new features, generate code, and shape the platform.

Ptah is the divine craftsman — he created the physical world through speech and thought. He spoke things into existence. That's what our CLI does.

Sekhmet Kemetic

In our system: Fraud detection and protection. The security layer that guards against threats.

Sekhmet is the lioness — fierce protector, destroyer of enemies. When threats come for our platform or our users, Sekhmet handles it.

Anpu Kemetic European corruption: "Anubis"

In our system: Security layer. Authentication, authorization, and access control.

Anpu guards the threshold between worlds. Nothing passes without being examined. Our security layer does the same — every request is checked.

Sobek Kemetic

In our system: Payment processing. Yapit (primary) and Stripe (fallback).

Sobek is strength and protection over waterways and commerce. Money flows like water — Sobek ensures it flows to the right places.

Set Kemetic European corruption: "Satan"

In our system: Errors, bugs, and threats. The adversary. What we fight against every day.

Set murdered Ausar and scattered his body. Bugs break our code, security threats scatter our data. We fight Set every day. And like Heru defeated Set, our products overcome their bugs.

Khnum Kemetic

Potential use: The build servers that shape code into products. The potter's wheel that forms each Heru.

Khnum shaped human bodies on his potter's wheel from Nile clay. The build farm shapes raw code into working products — same energy, different material.

Kemet Kemetic

The original name of ancient Egypt. Means "The Black Land" — referring to the rich, dark soil of the Nile valley. NOT "Egypt" (a Greek corruption).

We use Kemetic terminology because these are the original names, from the original people. Using European corruptions would be like calling yourself by someone else's name for you.

Medu Neter Kemetic European corruption: "Hieroglyphics"

Means "Words of God" or "Sacred Speech." The original writing system of Kemet. "Hieroglyphics" is a Greek word meaning "sacred carvings" — their translation, not the original name.

Neteru Kemetic Often mistranslated as "gods"

The divine principles / forces of nature in Kemetic cosmology. Not "gods" in the European sense — more like personified forces of nature. Each represents an aspect of creation.

Every component in our architecture is named after a Neter because each component IS a force — Maat (truth/validation), Sekhmet (protection), Tehuti (knowledge), etc.

Clara AI — Quik Intelligence

Clara Named Person THE AI (like Anthropic's Claude)

Named after Clara Villarosa. Founded Hue-Man Bookstore in Harlem — the largest Black bookstore in America. Connected people to knowledge. Amen Ra's personal mentor.

In 1994, Amen Ra had dinner with Clara Villarosa, Maya Angelou, Nikki Giovanni, and Cleo Parker Robinson — four great Black women, introduced by Clara. Every name in our AI is from that lineage.

Mary Named Person Top-tier model (like Opus)

Named after Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune. Built Bethune-Cookman University from $1.50 and five students. Advised President Roosevelt. Amen Ra graduated from Bethune-Cookman.

Mary built an institution from almost nothing. That's what the top-tier model does — takes minimal input and builds complete, institutional-grade output.

Maya Named Person Balanced model (like Sonnet)

Named after Dr. Maya Angelou. Poet, author, civil rights activist. Said more with less. Balanced power with grace.

Maya's writing was efficient and devastating. Every word carried weight. The balanced model works the same way — not the most powerful, not the fastest, but the perfect balance.

Nikki Named Person Quick model (like Haiku) — Free tier

Named after Dr. Nikki Giovanni. Poet, activist, professor. Loved Tupac so much she had "Thug Life" tattooed on her chest. No pretense, no apology.

Nikki was unapologetic and direct. She bridged generations — from the Black Arts Movement to Tupac. The quick model is the same: fast, real, no pretense. Also the free tier for public users.

Ali Named Person NOI Platform AI (sibling to Clara)

Named after Muhammad Ali. Named by the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad himself. The Greatest. Stood on principle even when it cost him everything. Ali is Clara's sibling — the AI for the NOI Platform.

Wallace Named Person Ali's top model (like Mary/Opus)

Named after Master Fard Muhammad. The founder of the Nation of Islam. Born February 26 — the same day as Amen Ra. The origin. The source.

Elijah Named Person Ali's balanced model (like Maya/Sonnet)

Named after the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad. The teacher. Built the blueprint for Black economic independence. His program is the architecture these platforms encode.

Louis Named Person Ali's quick model (like Nikki/Haiku)

Named after the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan. Reached the people, rebuilt from nothing. The public-facing voice. Fast, direct, reaches everyone.

Quik Intelligence Business

DBA under Quik Nation, Inc. Clara's home. The B2B AI brand and technology licensing entity. quikintelligence.com is the B2B portal for Managed/SDK tiers and sibling platform licensing.

Technical Infrastructure

Quik Cloud Quik Nation Term

The collective name for all Quik Nation build infrastructure. Quik Cloud 1 = Mac M4 Pro (24GB RAM, Tailscale VPN, primary for complex tasks + mobile builds). Quik Cloud 2 = EC2 t3.large (44.200.66.249). Quik Cloud 3 = EC2 t3.large (100.55.154.135). All three run agentic-loop.js 24/7.

Quik Cloud 1 is always distinctive — the Mac. EC2s are Quik Cloud 2 and 3.

Agentic Loop AI Term

A program that receives a task, calls an AI model, executes tool calls (read file, write file, run bash), and repeats until the task is done. "Agentic" = the AI acts as an agent with tools, not just a chatbot. Our agentic-loop.js is the core of Quik Cloud.

Max 50 iterations per task. Tools: read_file, write_file, edit_file, run_bash, list_dir, search_grep, git_commit, task_complete

Ollama Open Source Tool

Software that runs AI models locally on your own hardware. No API keys, no rate limits, no cost. We run Ollama on each EC2 with Qwen 2.5 Coder 3B and Llama 3.2 3B models. Quik Cloud 1 runs Qwen 7B (437 tok/s) and Llama 3B (103 tok/s).

Key Rotation Infrastructure Pattern

When one API key gets rate-limited (too many requests), automatically switch to another key from a different account. We have 13 keys across 6 email accounts so each account has its own daily quota. When one exhausts, the next one picks up.

EAS (Expo Application Services) Expo Term

Expo's build and submit service for React Native apps. We ALWAYS use --local flag (build on our own machine, not Expo's cloud). After local build, eas submit pushes to Apple TestFlight or Google Play Store.

iOS needs Xcode + Mac. Android needs Android SDK + Java 17. Both can run in parallel on Quik Cloud 1.

AWS Amplify AWS Service

AWS service that hosts our Next.js frontends. Automatically builds on git push. Provides CDN (global content delivery), SSL certificates, and preview deployments for pull requests.

AWS App Runner AWS Service

AWS service for production backends. We build Docker containers, push to ECR (container registry), and App Runner runs them with auto-scaling (1-25 instances). 30-88% cheaper than running EC2 24/7.

SSM Parameter Store AWS Service

Where we keep all secrets (API keys, database passwords, tokens). Encrypted with KMS. Never committed to git. Path format: /quik-nation/shared/KEY_NAME or /quik-nation/build-farm/KEY_NAME.

Monorepo Software Architecture

One repository containing multiple projects (frontend, backend, mobile) that share code and configuration. Our boilerplate is a monorepo with pnpm workspaces. Each Heru starts as a copy of this monorepo.

GraphQL API Technology

A query language for APIs. Instead of REST endpoints (/api/users, /api/orders), you have one endpoint and ask for exactly the data you need. Our backends use Apollo Server (GraphQL server) and frontends use Apollo Client.

Business & Organization

Quik Nation, Inc Legal Entity

The corporation (NOT LLC). Structured for equity and potential IPO. Formerly Alliance Software Development (founded 2018). The parent entity for all Quik products and services.

Yapit / YapEX Payment Platform

PRIMARY payment provider. Black-owned payment platform from the Virgin Islands. Enables global economic connections Stripe cannot (Caribbean, Africa, Central/South America). Yapit processes first; Stripe is fallback only.

"This achieves the goal of what the Most Honorable Elijah Muhammad wanted — the Black Man in America connect with the Black Man around the Globe."

Platform Owner vs Site Owner Architecture Pattern

Platform Owner = Quik Nation. Owns the infrastructure, master Stripe/Clerk/AWS accounts, bears hosting costs. Site Owner = The business using the platform. Owns their data, customers, revenue. Uses Stripe Connect for their payments. Critical distinction for multi-tenant SaaS.

Site962 Physical Location

Multi-purpose facility in Atlanta owned by Quik Nation. Has event venue, barber shop, food court. The real-world testing ground for all Quik products — where digital meets physical.

Three-Tier Agent System Operational Pattern

Opus = Architect (writes requirements, talks to Amen Ra). Sonnet = Planner (turns requirements into task prompts). Haiku = Dispatcher (sends tasks to Quik Cloud, autonomous 24/7). Each has ONE job. Non-negotiable.

Pipeline: Opus → requirements.md → Sonnet → task prompts → Haiku → Quik Cloud → code

Sibling Platform Business Model

An organization that licenses the Auset Platform to run their own independent ecosystem. They are PLATFORM_OWNER of their instance (own their data, brand, revenue, AWS account). Quik Nation is the technology partner. Examples: NOI, HBCUs, churches.