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lemonade-sdk: Skoor 75 (n=5, confidence 0.9, semiconductors)

What they built

Lemonade is a local AI server that serves optimized LLMs from the user's own GPUs and NPUs [source]. The main language is C++, and the license is Apache [source].

It comes in two forms [source]:

  • Lemonade Server connects to apps through OpenAI, Anthropic and Ollama APIs.
  • Embeddable Lemonade is a portable binary that developers package into their own apps.

    • It installs on Windows, Linux, macOS and Docker, and has iOS and Android apps [source]. The README says it is "built by the community for every PC, with optimizations by AMD engineers" for Ryzen AI, Radeon and Strix Halo PCs [source].

    Record

    These signals were measured:
  • Stars and forks: The main repo has 5,902 stars and 527 forks [source].
  • Star rate: It has gained 347 stars per month since it was created in May 2025 [source].
  • Commits: There were 364 commits in 90 days [source].
  • Committers: 26 distinct people committed in 90 days [source].
  • Last push: 2026-10-15 [source].
  • Organization: The GitHub org was created on 2025-04-30, has 60 public repos and is not verified [source].

    • The org lists no description, website or location [source]. No open roles were found. Founders, funding and customers are not in the evidence.

    Why now

    The project is 17 months old and still in active development [source].

    Inference: The NPU support and the multi-API design point to demand for running models on consumer chips instead of the cloud.

    Unknowns

  • Who owns it: The AMD credit in the README raises the question of whether this is an independent company or an AMD-sponsored project. Inference: It may not be an investable entity.
  • People: Founders and team are not in the evidence.
  • Business: There is no evidence of a legal entity, revenue model or funding.
  • Hardware: Performance on non-AMD hardware is not in the evidence.
  • Usage: Downloads and active installs are not in the evidence. Stars are the only adoption measure.

    • Questions for the room

  • Of the 26 committers in the last 90 days, how many are paid by AMD? This tests the "built by the community" claim.
  • Who owns the code and the `lemonade-sdk` org, and is there a company that could take investment? This tests the unverified org with no website.
  • What are the monthly active installs and embedded-binary deployments, compared with 5,902 stars? This tests whether star growth reflects real use.

    • What would move the Skoor

  • Raise it: An independent entity with founders outside AMD, rights to the code, and measured install growth.
  • Lower it: Evidence that AMD owns the project and AMD staff make up most of the committers.