Building ANVE in public:
the notes.

An office whose work cannot leave the building should be able to own its AI outright. We publish every step of building ANVE here, including what goes wrong.

Engineering note 05 · 14 Oct 2026 · published 14 Oct 2026
Two AI boxes launched last week.
Neither is for an office: Ghost Core and Oki Home are for one person at home, and an office needs named users and a record.
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Engineering note 04 · 23 Sep 2026 · published 23 Sep 2026
The 4B question.
Zero misassigned owners across 20 action items on a 4B model, once the prompt says the owner is the doer. n=5, what it does and does not prove.
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Engineering note 03 · 23 Sep 2026 · published 23 Sep 2026
Who cannot use AI at all.
We counted the institutions that cannot use cloud AI: about 27,000 public, 144,106 private.
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Engineering note 02 · 22 Sep 2026 · published 22 Sep 2026
Why we are not selling you a computer.
A Mac Studio with Ollama is the right answer for one person. ANVE is the project of turning that computer into something an office can use.
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Engineering note 01 · 24 Aug 2026 · published 4 Sep 2026
Pricing a private AI appliance from the BOM up.
Three of five tiers were underwater.
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Building ANVE in public:the notes.

Two AI boxes launched last week.

The 4B question.

Who cannot use AI at all.

Why we are not selling you a computer.

Pricing a private AI appliance from the BOM up.

Building ANVE in public:
the notes.