Sourav Bera
Sourav Bera is an individual software developer, AI researcher, and creator rather than a company. His public work focuses on building privacy-preserving, open-source AI products and research systems, including Xiryn, a self-hosted personal agent that runs agents in their own Linux desktops on a user's computer.
At a Glance
- Individual developers and technical users
- Privacy-conscious users who want self-hosted AI agents
- Researchers and users running local models
- People automating browser, coding and research workflows
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AI Tools by Sourav Bera
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Xiryn
Open Source Local AI Agent
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Latest News
Sourav Bera introduces Xiryn, an open-source personal agent with its own Linux desktop running on the user's computer
Xiryn repository records a launch-film README update for the open-source personal agent
Xiryn repository completes the project rename and publishes release 0.4.1-era setup, Docker and workstation changes
Prabhat Khabar profiles Bera's Toil Labs AI research, including its MRT-based LLM and ChatMRT demo
Products & Services
An open-source personal agent that runs locally. Each agent gets its own Linux desktop in Docker, can browse, research, write and run code, remember information, delegate to other agents, and be controlled remotely through Telegram. It is MIT licensed and free to use; users supply their own model-provider keys.
A demo platform for the MRT-based large-language-model research reported for Toil Labs. The cited profile describes the architecture as intended to deliver ChatGPT-like capability at substantially lower cost.
A project listed on Bera's GitHub profile with more than 10,000 users.
A project listed on Bera's GitHub profile with approximately 8,000 users.
Market Position
Xiryn positions itself as an open-source, self-hosted alternative to hosted personal agents such as Meta's Muse, xAI's Grok Bot and OpenAI's Dots, while also contrasting itself with local computer-use projects such as OpenClaw. Its differentiation is that each agent receives its own Dockerized Linux desktop, data remains on the user's machine, any supported model can be used, and sensitive actions require explicit user approval.
Leadership
Founders
Sourav Bera
AI engineer and software developer; the official portfolio describes him as Head of Tech at Quarq Labs, while his GitHub profile identifies him as the former founder of Toil Labs. A September 2025 profile reports that he previously started the marketing company Starsconnect, later founded Toil International while hospitalized, worked on freelance software projects, and rebranded that work as Toil Labs.
Founding Story
After school, Bera started Starsconnect, a marketing company that closed after about a year. Following serious health problems and an extended hospital stay, he started Toil International and used freelance software work to build the venture; it later became Toil Labs. His AI-research direction included a reported two-year effort on Modular Reinforced Transformers (MRT), while his later Xiryn project was started to bring the capabilities of hosted personal agents onto the user's own computer, keeping data and credentials local.
Business Model
Revenue Model
Xiryn is free and MIT-licensed rather than subscription-based. It runs on the user's own computer; users pay model providers and optionally Firecrawl directly for usage, while the project itself does not advertise a paid plan.
Pricing Tiers
The README says Xiryn is free and MIT-licensed; infrastructure is local, while model-provider and optional Firecrawl usage is billed by those providers.
Target Markets
- Individual developers and technical users
- Privacy-conscious users who want self-hosted AI agents
- Researchers and users running local models
- People automating browser, coding and research workflows
- Users needing remote task monitoring and approval from a phone
- Private personal computer-use assistance
- Web research, browsing and comparison tasks
- Software development, repository cloning, test execution and debugging
- Background automation while the user continues working
- Multi-agent delegation and specialist workflows
- Phone-based monitoring and approval of tasks through Telegram