Private Hybrid
Recommended for most people.
- Sensitive memory stays on your Core
- Approved external models handle heavy reasoning
- You see and control what leaves
Alfred Core
A compact, high-memory machine that holds your memory, runs the routine inference, stores your documents, and keeps the ledger of everything done in your name.
The decision behind it
Why a box at all
Every private detail Alfred is useful for — your correspondence, your documents, your relationships, your obligations — is exactly the material you'd least like sitting on a general-purpose cloud account. So the default is inverted: the memory lives with you, and reaching outside is the exception you approve.
The first Core is a compact, high-memory AI workstation rather than custom-designed hardware. That's deliberate: proven components, serviceable parts, no bespoke manufacturing risk before the software has earned it.
- Holds the memory graph, document vault, transcripts and audit ledger
- Runs classification, extraction and transcription locally
- Encrypted at rest; the vault is useless if the machine walks out the door
- Routes only what you allow to external reasoning models
Prototype chassis. Final industrial design in progress.
Deployment
Three ways to run it
Private Local
Maximum privacy, at some cost in raw reasoning quality.
- Storage, memory, inference and transcription all local
- No third-party model calls
- Works without an internet connection for core functions
Managed Private
We operate the system; you keep explicit data controls.
- Setup, updates and monitoring handled
- Contractual data controls, documented in writing
- Available later than the two owner-run options
Phase two · concept
The Alfred Pen
A capture device that looks like a good pen rather than a gadget: one button to record a meeting, a held press to ask Alfred something, encrypted sync back to your Core. No screen, no notifications, nothing to check.
Concept only. It gets built after the software has real users who genuinely want voice capture — not before.
Capture
Start with what you already carry
Phones, watches and ordinary recorders already cover meeting capture and voice notes. Alfred works with those from day one. Custom hardware is a reward for demand, not a bet placed before it.
That rule applies to the Core too: proven parts first, bespoke industrial design once there are people to build it for.
Reserve a Core from the first run
No payment is taken and nothing is committed. You're holding a place in a small first batch, and you'll be told exactly what's ready before anyone asks you for anything.