When can you trust a machine with the context it needs to change your life? Only when you own the machine.
We build desktop computers that run
capable AI models in your home or office. Your own personal Jarvis. Nothing leaves the box — unless
you say. No subscription. No consumer account. No IP theft. No surveillance. No rate limits. Max your AI superpowers with a system you control.
Don't rent the genie. Own the magic lamp.
Local AI means your personal AI, only on your computer – it's custom to you, built for your needs – not online, not owned by tech bros. For AI to be your Good Right Hand, it's gotta know you inside-out – but those memories are precious data and it feels creepy trusting them to companies online 🫣 Sadly, every time you paste a document into a website chatbot, it travels to a data centre owned by someone whose incentives are not yours. For holiday plans, that's fine. For your client files, your accounts, your medical notes, your unpublished manuscript, your business alpha — it isn't.
Open models changed this. You can now run capable AI on a machine that sits under your desk, works with the internet unplugged, and costs you electricity. These models were trained on humanity's work. We think the benefits should belong to everyone — not rented back to us at £200 a month.
And we're pragmatists, not zealots. If you still want input from the top US or Chinese models, we make sure you get it at the best price, in a way that never touches your private data: use Claude or GLM 5.2 or Kimi K3 to design a system for work or home, then use local models to run it on your private info, day to day. Cheap where cheap works, private where private matters. That's how you get full-power AI workflows on sovereign, private-owned machines 😎 Plus you can still access your home-AI machine from anywhere using secure messaging on your mobile phone. (Just speak into your phone to send it instructions & it'll message back).
So we do two things. We publish free guides that show you how to build and set up your own machine, step by step. And if you'd rather skip the screwdriver, we sell the machines ready-made: built, configured, and explained — with an onboarding that teaches you to solve your own problems using the model itself. You own it. You understand it. You don't need us afterwards.
We're a wee Derry hardware company putting personal freedom ahead of corporate shenanigans. The personal-AI company with a cantankerous tilt. 🦡
This is what "local" means: the model answering you runs on your machine, not in a data centre. Ask it.
[prototype note] These answers are pre-written to show what a local model is like. The real thing runs entirely on your own machine — no server round-trip, ever.
Not science fiction — all of this runs on the Starter machine, and our guides show you how to wire up every piece.
The reply came from the box under your desk. It knows your projects because you told it — and that memory has never left your house. BUT you can query it from a secure app on your phone from anywhere in the world 🌍... and give it jobs to do 🍹😎🏝️
You wanted a habit tracker. Instead of a £6-a-month app that sells your streaks to a data broker, you described one to your AI — and it built it.
Same for the meal log, the invoice chaser, the reading list. Little tools, shaped exactly to you, running on your own machine. And they're all connected – building a picture of your life in data, for you alone! Your AI, your apps, your box, your rules.
A solicitor asks her machine: "what did we agree in the March correspondence?" — and gets the answer, with the source, in seconds.
Not one word of client material touched the cloud. That sentence is the whole product.
The machine is the boring bit. The point is the small systems you build on it — designed once with help from a big cloud model, then run privately, at home, forever, for the price of electricity. Things people are building right now:
Pick any subject. It teaches at your pace, quizzes you on weak spots, and never runs out of patience. Your kids can use it too.
Food, workouts, sleep, gym numbers — logged in seconds, charted your way. Medical-adjacent data that never leaves your house.
Reads your KPIs every morning and only speaks when something needs attention. Like a bookkeeper who works for electricity.
Receipts, invoices and contracts sorted, renamed and filed the moment they arrive. Tax season stops being a season.
Every manual, warranty, meter reading and note in one place you can ask questions. "When did we last service the boiler?"
Feeds on your drafts, contracts or client work and pushes back before anyone else sees it. Private by definition.
Each machine arrives with models installed, a chat interface ready, and a plain-English guide to what it can and can't do. First boot to first answer: minutes.
For one person and their documents.
Why no price yet? Because we haven't finished building and testing unit one — and we won't sell you anything we haven't stress-tested ourselves. The whole build is being documented on the blog and on video, so you can watch your machine's ancestor come together. Waitlist members get the price first and a build-diary discount.
One person, their documents, a capable daily assistant. Complex coding-type work available via PAYG cloud models – but they never touch your private files.
● waitlist openRuns 32B-class models — the tier where complex drafting, coding help and heavier agents can run 100% local, end to end, if you wish.
○ in development70B-class models, big context windows, multiple users. A small firm's entire AI, fully local, end to end, on one quiet box.
○ in developmentEverything we know, written down. Buy a machine from us or build your own from the same guides — both outcomes make us happy.
Choosing parts without getting scammed, the assembly itself, and what to do when it doesn't boot. Is it expensive? Can you use an old laptop or phone to get started??
→ free guide series hub 02Installing the software, picking a model that fits your hardware, and the first conversation that never leaves the room. Also... let's get you set you up sending tasks to your new, private AI by speaking notes into your phone 📱
→ free guide series hub 03Cool stuff. Agents, private dashboards, document pipelines — small systems that quietly improve your week. Bespoke to you. Because the AI's understanding of your life can safely grow on your secure, personal machine.
→ free guide series