# BarnLabs

> BarnLabs builds careful tools for research, learning, and exploration. Product claims below distinguish shipped software from developer previews.

## Products

### Inquiry
Developer-preview, local-first research engine written in Rust. Inquiry gathers public-source evidence while preserving source records, retrieval details, claim references, confidence notes, and connector errors. Current interfaces are a Rust command-line tool, an MCP server for compatible agents, and a native macOS client built from source.

Current developer-preview capabilities include calculations, explicit unit conversions, descriptive statistics, numerical differentiation and integration, responsive graphs, self-contained HTML research reports, exact-place resolution with OpenStreetMap data, country metrics from the World Bank, exact current and numbered officeholder resolution with U.S. and UK official corroboration where accepted, MedlinePlus health-topic discovery, licensed Wikimedia Commons image discovery, OpenAlex scholarly metadata, Anki/Quizlet study exports, timestamped FAA airport events, official airline/package handoffs that return no live state, and a minimized local single-aircraft registry lookup. The machine-readable coverage matrix does not claim universal support, and ambiguous current-office or scoped tracking queries can abstain before networking. Medical discovery is informational and does not diagnose, prescribe, or choose patient-specific doses.

- Product page: [Inquiry](https://barnlabs.net/inquiry)
- Public source: [github.com/barnlabs/inquiry](https://github.com/barnlabs/inquiry)
- Status: public developer preview; source builds are available, but no signed or notarized macOS binary is published

## Company
- Founded by Donovan Baney and Thatcher Baney
- Website: [barnlabs.net](https://barnlabs.net)
- Product platforms: Rust CLI, MCP, and macOS source build for Inquiry
- Philosophy: Careful design. Free where it matters. Built to last.

## Product technology
- Rust for the Inquiry research engine, CLI, MCP server, and deterministic quantitative tools
- SwiftUI for the native macOS interface

## Data Sources (all free)
- MedlinePlus — health-topic discovery in Inquiry
- Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) — public-source discovery
- OpenStreetMap (ODbL) — maps and points of interest
- Nominatim — fallback geocoding
- OSRM — fallback driving routes when MapKit cannot produce one

## Contact
- Website: [barnlabs.net](https://barnlabs.net)
- Email: [hello@barnlabs.net](mailto:hello@barnlabs.net)
- Brand assets: [BarnLabs asset manifest](https://barnlabs.net/brand/asset-manifest.json)