Your AI agent,on hardware you own.

No, and it doesn't have to be. The box runs 7–8B models locally, which handle the everyday middle of the work — summarising, extraction, classification, drafting, first-pass code. For anything harder you point it at Claude, GPT or Gemini on your own key and get exactly the frontier model you're already paying for. The local side isn't the ceiling, it's the option for documents you'd never upload.

No, and you can't. You connect your own Anthropic, OpenAI, Google or OpenRouter key and the box calls those providers directly. They bill you at their rates, on the account you already have. We take no cut, add no markup and run no proxy in between — the €549 is the entire commercial relationship.

That's the intended way to run it. Paste in the keys you already have and the box uses your existing plans — nothing is duplicated and nothing new starts billing. If you'd rather not use a cloud provider at all, the local models on the box work with no key and no bill.

Because the dev kit isn't the product. That figure is a US list price before VAT, shipping and import — landed in Europe it is already meaningfully more — and what arrives is a bare board with an empty M.2 slot. Getting from there to this adds the 512 GB NVMe drive, the case, the active cooling, the assembly and the burn-in test, and the work of having the agent, the runtimes and the local weights already talking to each other on first boot. The price then includes EU VAT, delivery, thirty days to send it back for a full refund, and the 2-year legal guarantee of conformity. There is a margin on top of that — we build these, support them and answer the email — and a breakdown engineered to land on exactly €549 would be an insult to anyone able to do the sum in the first place. If it still doesn't look worth it, the thirty days are there so you can find out with our money rather than our argument.

Don't, yet. Trust the terms instead: use it for thirty days and send it back if it isn't right. And note what you are not being asked to trust us with — your API keys stay on hardware in your room, your tokens are billed by your provider, and there's no subscription that can be raised on you later.

No. It arrives with Ollama and llama.cpp installed, weights already on the drive, and a web UI at hermes.local. If you do want to go deeper — pulling different models, adjusting context, exposing it over Tailscale — that's all there, just not in your way.

Yes. It exposes an OpenAI-compatible endpoint on your local network, so anything that lets you set a base URL works: Cursor, Continue, Zed, Raycast, Obsidian plugins, n8n, LangChain, LlamaIndex, or a five-line Python script. Day to day, most people just message it on Telegram.

On the box, on your network. They are not synced to us, not held in a hosted dashboard, and not readable by anyone who hasn't got the machine. That's the practical difference between this and an agent service you sign into: revoking our access means unplugging a cable.

They cost nothing — they aren't ours to sell. A skill is a small folder of Markdown that teaches an agent one job properly: filling a PDF, cleaning a spreadsheet, reviewing a diff, writing to a brand guide. The box installs any of the 652 in the open Agent Skills ecosystem in a single line, and you can read one before installing it and edit it after. Your own folder of instructions works exactly the same way. Skills run against whichever provider you pointed the box at, so the one that reads a contract can stay on the local model while the rest go to Claude or GPT on your key.

Yes — anything Ollama or llama.cpp will run that fits in 8 GB, which in practice means GGUF up to about 9B at four-bit. The models it ships with are a starting point, not a walled garden. Pull your own with one command.

No. It has a single managed fan and it is quiet, but a page that told you a computer with active cooling makes no noise would be lying to you about the first thing you'd notice.

It ships from Bulgaria to the EU, UK, Switzerland and Norway. Shipping and EU VAT are included in the price shown — the number at checkout is the number you pay.

Send it back within thirty days of it arriving and we refund it in full. One email — no form, no restocking fee, no explanation required.