LocalGhost.ai | The Only Cloud Is You

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THE MANIFESTO

"Privacy is the power to selectively reveal oneself to the world."
— A Cypherpunk's Manifesto, 1993

The Cypherpunks told us to write code. We didn't write enough. Today, your phone is a tracker, your cloud is an informant, and your AI is a spy. Every click is logged. Every query is sold. Every interaction trains a model you will never own.

LocalGhost inverts this. We move everything you need—your AI, your data, your digital self—from their servers to yours. A private server where nobody can see you. Where nobody even knows you exist.

We do not ask you to trust us. We ask you to verify that you don't have to.

WHAT WE'VE MADE POSSIBLE

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Everything is open source and auditable.
Every line of code is public. Every circuit is documented. No black boxes except the one on your desk.

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Anyone can fork, expand, or replace us.
We are not gatekeepers. We are blueprint makers. The mission is bigger than the company.

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Anyone can build it themselves.
Buy the parts. Flash the OS. Never give us a cent. We'll still high-five you.

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We only exist while we're valuable.
If we go bankrupt, you lose nothing. Your box keeps running. Someone else can pick up where we left off.

WHAT WE'VE MADE IMPOSSIBLE

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We cannot sell your data.
We do not have it. Your data lives on your hardware. We are architecturally blind.

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We cannot charge a subscription.
There is no server to cut you off from. You own atoms. Atoms don't have terms of service.

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We cannot force an update.
Unplug the ethernet and we cannot reach you. No backdoor. No kill switch.

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We cannot train AI on your life.
Your journals, photos, biometrics, secrets—they exist only on your desk.

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We cannot track you.
No analytics. No telemetry. The box does not phone home. We don't know who you are.

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We cannot comply with surveillance requests.
When the subpoena comes, we have nothing. The architecture is our legal defense.

This is not a promise backed by goodwill. This is not a privacy policy written by lawyers. This is physics. This is math. This is code you can read.

You do not choose us because you trust us.
You choose us because you can verify that trust is unnecessary.

The internet is a panopticon.
LocalGhost is the blind spot.
Read the full 1993 Cypherpunk Manifesto →

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THE FLEET: LOCAL_DAEMONS

We built a fleet of agents—Daemons—that run locally on the hardware. They are not "smart assistants." They are specialized scripts designed to ingest the chaos of your life and organize it into a coherent truth, without a single byte leaving the box.

THE SCRIBE

INPUT: TEXT & CONTEXT

Reads your journals. Maps your syntax. Preserves the raw thoughts you self-censor. The memory of who you were when no one was watching.

THE OBSERVER

INPUT: VISION

Sees the bags under your eyes. Tracks the clutter. Rejects the Instagram filter. The only camera that works for you.

THE AUDITOR

INPUT: HARD METRICS

Trust the math. Bank logs. Screen time. Commit history. The undeniable baseline of where your time and energy actually went.

THE WEAVER

SYNTHESIS: THE BRAIN

Connects spending to sadness. Connects code to sleep. Finds the pattern. Builds a model of your psyche—not to sell you things, but to help you understand you.

THE SENTINEL

SECURITY: THE MIST

Encrypts & shards your data. Distributes to the P2P mesh. The deadman switch. If we disappear, your data survives.

THE SHADOW

INTERFACE: THE OUTPUT

Brutally honest. Not a polite chatbot. If you lie to the Shadow, it will cite the Auditor's data to correct you. Zero incentive to manipulate.

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SURVIVAL PROTOCOL: "THE MIST"

We do not have a server. If we go bankrupt tomorrow, your data survives. LocalGhost relies on a Distributed Hash Table (DHT).

┌──────┐     ┌──────┐     ┌──────┐
│ NODE │────▶│ NODE │────▶│ NODE │
└──┬───┘     └──┬───┘     └──┬───┘
   │            │            │
   ▼            ▼            ▼
┌──────┐     ┌──────┐     ┌──────┐
│ NODE │◀────│ NODE │◀────│ NODE │
└──────┘     └──────┘     └──────┘

NO CENTRAL NODE. NO MASTER. JUST THE MESH.

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SHARDING

Your encrypted soul is broken into thousands of shards.

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DISTRIBUTION

You store shards for others; they store shards for you.

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ZERO-KNOWLEDGE

They cannot read yours. You cannot read theirs.

THE PACT: Dedicate 20% of your drive to the network. Gain immortality for your data.

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THE ECONOMICS OF INDEPENDENCE

Why we will never ask for a subscription.

The modern technology industry is built on a single, toxic premise: Rent-seeking.

They don't want to sell you a product; they want to trap you in a monthly payment. They want you to be a tenant in your own digital life. If you stop paying, the lights go out. If you stop paying, they lock the doors to your memories.

We reject this. Not everything needs to be a subscription.

At LocalGhost, our business model is boring, archaic, and honest:

1. WE MAKE MONEY WHEN WE SELL YOU ATOMS (HARDWARE)

If you choose to buy a pre-built LocalGhost box from us, we charge you a 30% margin on the parts and assembly. That is our profit. It pays for our engineers, our electricity, and our coffee.

The Choice: If you don't want to pay us, you don't have to. The hardware specs are open. The code is open. You can buy the parts on Newegg, download our repo, and build it yourself. We will not earn a cent, and we will still high-five you for doing it.

2. WE MAKE MONEY WHEN WE SELL YOU UPGRADES (SOFTWARE)

We treat software like a tool, not a service. If we develop a breakthrough new Agent—say, a "Shadow v2.0" with better reasoning, or a "Medical Auditor" module—we will put it in a package and put a price tag on it.

The Choice: You can buy it, or you can ignore it.

3. WE NEVER MONETIZE YOU

We cannot sell your data because we do not have it.

We cannot train AI on your life because we cannot see it.

We cannot show you ads because the box has no ad server.

⚡ PHYSICS, NOT PROMISES

The Guarantee: If you don't buy an upgrade, your current version will keep working forever. We will never throttle, brick, or degrade your existing system to force an upgrade.

Why? Because we can't.

Once you unplug the ethernet cable or block the port, this box is a sovereign island. We have no "backdoor." We have no "remote kill switch." We have no "admin access." Even if we wanted to force an update, the architecture prevents us from reaching you.

We have designed ourselves out of the loop. You are not relying on our goodwill; you are relying on the fact that we are technically powerless to stop you.

THE COMPARISON

FEATURE	THE "BIG TECH" WAY	THE LOCALGHOST WAY
Payment Structure	Infinite Monthly Rent	One-Time Purchase
If You Stop Paying	You lose access to your data	Nothing happens. It keeps working.
Data Privacy	They scan it for ads/training	We physically cannot see it
Upgrades	Forced UI changes you hate	Optional packages you choose
Hardware	A locked black box you can't open	Standard parts. Repairable. Upgradeable.
Relationship	User / Product	Owner / Tool

When you pay for something once, you own it.
When you pay for it monthly, it owns you.