LAB-01
ArchiHub for Nature
Extends the idea of an archive beyond documents — connecting weather-station prototypes, sensor systems, and biodiversity photography into a living environmental archive.
OPEN-SOURCE DIGITAL STUDIO
Bitsol SAS
A Colombian open-source studio building intelligent digital infrastructure for memory, knowledge, nature, and the future.
STATUS: ACTIVE — FOUNDED JUL 2024
Bitsol SAS is a Colombian open-source technology company working at the intersection of software engineering, artificial intelligence, archives, art, data, nature, and physical computing. We develop adaptable digital platforms, custom AI workflows, interactive visualizations, web experiences, environmental-monitoring systems, and experimental hardware. Our principal platform, ArchiHub, is open-source infrastructure for organizing, preserving, processing, and exploring documentary heritage and collective memory — without locking organizations into permanent technological dependency.
// our story
Bitsol began with ArchiHub. Néstor Andrés Peña started developing it as a platform for managing and exploring digital archives — a more flexible, open, and context-aware way of working with documentary collections and institutional knowledge.
As the project grew beyond a single application, Néstor brought in Pedro Ruiz, an electronic engineer and AI/software developer, to build a company around it. Bitsol SAS was founded with two goals: keep developing ArchiHub as an open-source platform, and build a multidisciplinary Colombian studio capable of creating new software, AI systems, digital experiences, and experimental technology.
// mission & vision
Mission
To design and develop open, adaptable, and meaningful technologies that help people and organizations preserve knowledge, understand information, explore complex realities, and build solutions with lasting social, cultural, and environmental value.
Vision
To become a leading Colombian and Latin American open-source technology studio, recognized for building innovative digital infrastructure, AI applications, archival technologies, environmental systems, and experimental products grounded in local realities.
// principles
Open by Design
Organizations should be able to understand, adapt, extend, and preserve the systems their information depends on — reducing vendor dependency and strengthening local technical capability.
Technology with Context
Technology is never neutral. We design systems around the specific cultural, historical, institutional, and territorial context of each project.
Memory as a Living System
Memory is built from relationships between documents, people, places, and testimonies. Our systems make those relationships visible and explorable.
Truth Grounded in Evidence
Our AI systems guide users toward source material rather than replace it — prioritizing traceability and transparent limitations.
Artistic Vision & Technical Excellence
We work at the intersection of engineering and creative practice — software as infrastructure, and as a medium for storytelling.
Sustainable Technological Independence
We build systems that can be deployed, maintained, and extended over time — favoring self-hosted infrastructure and open standards.
// services
Open-Source Application Development
Architecture, backend/API development, web and mobile interfaces, and containerized deployment for institutional, cultural, and scientific needs.
ArchiHub Deployment & Customization
Infrastructure assessment, metadata-model design, plugin development, and long-term support for organizations implementing ArchiHub.
AI for Documents & Archives
OCR, transcription, semantic search, and evidence-grounded exploration — locally deployable and provider-agnostic.
Specialized Data Visualization
Interactive maps, timelines, relationship networks, and dashboards that make patterns, territories, and histories understandable.
Custom User Interfaces
Interchangeable frontends for public archive portals, research tools, and interactive installations, built on ArchiHub's API.
Web Platforms & Digital Experiences
Institutional websites, digital archives, and data-driven web experiences, combining engineering, design, and usability.
Research, Prototyping & the Bitsol Lab
An experimental space exploring computer vision, robotics, environmental sensing, UAVs, and Gaussian Splatting.
// flagship platform — ArchiHub
ArchiHub is an open-source Colombian platform for organizing, preserving, processing, connecting, and exploring digital archives and collective memory — designed to strengthen institutional and community information ecosystems while reducing technological dependency.
Core capabilities
Technical foundation
// research & innovation
LAB-02
Exploratory Document Search
An experimental search system over Colombian Truth Commission documents that progressively discovers related people, places, and themes instead of returning a single answer.
LAB-03
Collaborative OCR for Colombian Archives
A Telegram-based system where participants help transcribe historical text, building an openly published, Colombia-grounded dataset for Hugging Face.
LAB-04
Gaussian Splatting & Visual Memory
Exploring Gaussian Splatting to turn photograph collections into immersive three-dimensional experiences instead of conventional thumbnail galleries.
LAB-05
Fixed-Wing UAV Platform
A modular fixed-wing UAV for aerial imaging, photogrammetry, and future environmental sensing — reconnecting the studio's digital work with physical engineering.
See Gipsy UAV in Missions ↗// areas of expertise
Software & Platforms
AI & Data
Archives, Memory & Culture
Engineering & Physical Systems
// why work with Bitsol
Colombian Knowledge & Perspective
We build from Colombia, designing technology around Latin American histories, institutions, and social realities.
Open-Source Foundations
Clients and partners are never forced to depend indefinitely on a closed platform or a single provider.
Multidisciplinary Thinking
We combine software, AI, archives, design, art, electronics, and environmental research in the same team.
Customizable Systems
We don't assume every archive, organization, or community works the same way.
From Prototype to Deployment
We explore an idea, build a proof of concept, and continue supporting the system as it evolves.
Digital & Physical Integration
Our work spans databases and AI models to sensors, weather stations, cameras, and aircraft.
Technology with Purpose
We build systems that create cultural, social, scientific, and environmental value — not software for its own sake.
// founders
Co-founder & Original Creator of ArchiHub
Néstor Andrés Peña
Started the development of ArchiHub and established the technical foundation from which Bitsol emerged. His work connects software, digital archives, artistic research, and the exploration of technology, memory, and nature.
Profile ↗
Co-founder & Developer
Pedro Elí Ruiz Zárate
Electronic engineer and AI/software developer. Contributes to ArchiHub's development and deployment, AI integrations, and physical-engineering initiatives such as the fixed-wing UAV platform.
About me ↗