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We build things that don't exist yet. An independent research lab in Mauritius — artificial intelligence, language, and software.
Mauritius · Est. 2008
We build things that don't exist yet. An independent research lab in Mauritius — artificial intelligence, language, and software.
Mauritius · Est. 2008
A personal AI companion that runs locally on your own infrastructure — not in someone else's cloud. Handles email, infrastructure monitoring, task scheduling, and conversation. Calm, capable, private by default. And now, fully open source.
→ Explore Astra → Star on GitHubA large language model trained for Mauritian Creole — a language spoken by over a million people but severely underrepresented in AI. Built from the ground up with local data, local context, and local voice.
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A concierge app and directory for services and businesses in Mauritius. Built with Node.js and React — connecting locals to what they need.
→ bonjour.muMost AI systems are built for a handful of dominant languages. We're investigating what it takes to build capable, local-first models for Mauritian Creole and other underrepresented languages — from dataset curation to training to deployment on consumer hardware.
J.C.P Laboratory started in 2008 in a small house in Pointe-Aux-Sables, Mauritius — a hobbyist project powered by an AMD K6 and a lot of curiosity. Over the years it grew into a software company, then an infrastructure consultancy. Today, it's come full circle: a research lab focused on what originally drove us — building things that push forward.
We don't chase trends. We work on problems we care about: local AI, personal agents, and tools that respect the people who use them. Small team, deliberate pace, open work.
→ Looking for managed infrastructure or cloud consultancy? Those services now live at Pancake Solutions — our sister company.
AI should run where your data lives, not in someone else's data centre. Privacy isn't a feature — it's the default.
Research and tools should travel. We open-source our work because good ideas improve faster in the open.
We'd rather do three things well than thirty things halfway. Small team, focused work, deliberate pace.
2026-08-01
Building a Mauritian Creole LLM — where we are and what's nextSix months into training, the challenges of dataset curation, and why this matters for Mauritius.
2026-07-28
Astra Agent is now open sourceWhy we're opening up Astra, what's in the repo, and how you can run your own.
2026-06-15
Why we moved our managed services to Pancake SolutionsOn focus, identity, and the discipline of saying no to the thing you're good at.
Email: [email protected]
GitHub: github.com/jcplaboratory
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