the acquisition
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FREE
FOREVER

ARK O/S runs
on your machine.
The vault is
free forever.

The first public build is in the workshop now. Join the waiting list and you will hold it first. No account, no card, no telemetry.

One address, used once. No newsletter, no card, no account.
What ships, and when4 records · one product
№ 01

The Vault and the Seal

Keep atoms, compose nodes, and fingerprint everything as it is made. The keeping, and the proof of it.

first public build
№ 02

ARK

Ask your ground in four modes: ASK, EXPERTS, COUNCIL, KEEP. Cited answers, and the keeping is yours.

first public build
№ 03

The Forge

One atom into essay, audio and film, with the seal travelling into each output.

with the forge build
№ 04

Experts

Standing experts that learn your judgment from your disposals, on your machine.

with the experts build
the machine
you already own
what it needs to run

No Server.
No Subscription.

platformmacOS 14 or later, Apple Silicon (M1 and newer). Intel Macs are not supported. Windows and Linux are on the waiting list. Tell us your machine when you join.
the local model8 GB unified memory runs the app and the vault. 16 GB runs a capable local model comfortably. Below that, or whenever you choose, connect any provider with your own key. The vault stays on your machine either way.
disk2 GB for the machine. Your corpus is yours.
networkNeeded to install and to watch territories. Never to answer. The air-gap test proves it on demand.
accountNone. There is nothing to log in to.

Intelligence should never leave the ARK. With the local model, nothing does, every answer is computed on your machine, from your ground. If you choose to connect an online provider, your question crosses the wire to them; the vault, the seals, and the record never do. The dependency is your choice, visible in Settings, changeable at any time. Sovereignty here is not a setting. It is the architecture.

the terms

Free forever means the keeping, not a trial.

The vault, the seals, ARK, the forge, the experts, all of it runs on your machine and costs nothing, forever.

What we charge for is what your hardware alone cannot do: syncing the vault across devices, publishing with a passport the world can verify, collecting signals while you sleep.

If you never pay us a penny, nothing you have kept stops working.

The vault you build this year is the intelligence you wield next year.

before you wait

Read the ground first.

The manifesto says why this exists. The plain account says exactly what we hold. Both are shorter than this page.

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