ARGUS v0.5.0-ALPHA • SOVEREIGN LOCAL-FIRST AI

The sovereign AI operating system that never phones home.

Your digital life runs on cloud apps that monetize your secrets and keep killing what you paid for. ARGUS is the world's first complete personal AI operating system that lives 100% on your laptop. Zero servers. Zero cloud subscriptions.

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100% On-Device Neural Compute
$0.00 Monthly Token Bills
Human-Gated Approval Queues
ARGUS SOVEREIGN COCKPIT • LOCAL SILICON RUNNING
ARGUS Sovereign Home Cockpit Live Screen
~745,000
Lines of Python Code
Not a thin wrapper or skin
15,379
Automated Unit Tests
860 test files enforcing stability
500+
System API Endpoints
45 cohesive local modules
$0.00
Marginal Server Cost
Runs 100% on your laptop chip
Interactive Product Showcase

One assistant. Ten deep operating systems.

All ten domains share one local semantic memory substrate. Your health data is accessible in chat, finance from voice, and everything through your sovereign daily cockpit.

Sovereign Home Cockpit
Daily morning briefing, real-time widget bus, calendar integration, and AI suggested critical action queues.
ARGUS Live UI
Macro Privacy Shift

If your AI lives in the cloud,
you don't own it.

Tech giants are actively rewriting the rules of personal computing. Your secrets, memories, and habits are turned into corporate training datasets or paywalled behind rising subscriptions.

Amazon Echo Ecosystem

Local Voice Processing Killed

Amazon stripped on-device voice processing from physical Echo hardware, forcing all household conversations and wake commands through cloud servers.

Meta Rewind / Limitless Acquisition

Products Acquired & Shuttered

Meta acquired Rewind AI, disabled local screen recording, shuttered user features, and retained private screen capture data on their infrastructure.

Cloud SaaS Rent Seekers

900M Trapped Memories

OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft hold your life notes, search queries, and code in cloud accounts. If you cancel your $20–$200/mo subscription, your AI dies.

The ARGUS Guarantee

100% Local. Zero Network Required.

Your database is an encrypted SQLite ledger and TigerBeetle accounting system stored on your physical NVMe drive. Local models run via llama.cpp and Ollama. When you pull your ethernet cable or board an airplane, ARGUS operates with zero degradation.

Systems Engineering

Engineered like critical infrastructure.

ARGUS is not a toy prompt wrapper. It is a multi-layered local operating system built with strict machine-enforced boundaries and mathematical guarantees.

TigerBeetle-Semantics Ledger

1,957 LOC • 27-Test Parity

Double-entry accounting engine implemented over SQLite with complete TigerBeetle transaction semantics. Every balance transfer is immutable, auditable, and mathematically reconciled.

POST /api/financial/transfers
> DR: Assets:Chase:8840 $3,720.00
> CR: Income:Production:NewCaps $3,720.00
> Status: COMMITTED (0.42ms)

Provenance GraphRAG Engine

Character-Level Citations

Every synthesized fact links to exact character spans in your local source documents. Eliminates hallucinations with strict auditable evidence chains.

span_ref: "doc://contracts/2026_s_corp.pdf#chars=1420-1498"
confidence: 0.982 • graph_hops: 2
verified: true (Local VLM Enclave)

Guarded Voice & VAD Pipeline

18 Destructive Action Gates

Local wake word detection and Faster-Whisper transcription. High-consequence requests (paying bills, sending emails) hit regex safety tripwires and require physical confirmation.

Audio: "Send wire to vendor"
> Intent: FINANCE_DISPATCH [CRITICAL]
> Tripped Gate #07 • Intercepted to Approval Queue

93-Tool MCP Agent World-Model

Context-Aware Tool Ranker

Learns per-user tool success rates locally over time. Multi-step tasks execute in background threads without blocking your UI or leaking data.

Available MCP Tools: 93 schemas active
Active Subagents: 0 (Idle • Zero idle CPU)
World Model Policy: LOCAL_PREDICTIVE_V4
Clear Advantage

How ARGUS compares to cloud wrappers.

A side-by-side technical breakdown of real ownership versus rented cloud subscriptions.

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Feature / Dimension ARGUS Sovereign OS ChatGPT / Copilot Notion AI / Rewind
Data Storage Location ✓ 100% Local (Your NVMe) ✗ Cloud GPU Data Centers ✗ Proprietary Cloud Servers
Monthly Software Bill ✓ $0.00 (You Own The Code) ✗ $20.00 – $200.00 / mo ✗ $10.00 – $30.00 / mo
Offline Operation ✓ 100% Fully Functional ✗ 0% (Fails Without Internet) ✗ Read-Only Cache
First-Token Latency ✓ 8ms – 25ms (Direct RAM) ✗ 250ms – 800ms Network Roundtrip ✗ 350ms – 1,200ms Network
Cross-Domain Unification ✓ 10 Domains (1 Memory Graph) ✗ Isolated Chat Box ✗ Document Silo Only
Safety & Human Gates ✓ Physical Approval Queues ✗ Unchecked API Calls ✗ None
Vendor Lock-in Risk ✓ Zero (Open SQLite / JSON) ✗ Extreme (Account Banning Risk) ✗ High (Closed Schemas)
Hardware Compatibility

Runs on the machine
already on your desk.

Select your hardware profile to preview local inference speed and memory footprint.

1. Select Processor / Silicon
2. Select Unified / System RAM
Inference Throughput: 68 tokens/sec
Recommended Model: Gemma 4 E4B (Q8) + Muse Glimmer + Whisper v3
First-Token Latency: 12ms TTFT
Monthly Cloud Ingestion: $0.00 / mo
The Origin Story

Built by an Assistant Director who refused to rent his own brain.

"For 7 years working as an assistant director on film sets in Los Angeles, I spent 16-hour days coordinating dozens of people, budgets, and production schedules across 12 different disconnected apps. None of them talked to each other, and all of them wanted recurring monthly subscriptions for basic features. I built ARGUS to run my entire life on hardware I physically own."

ARGUS is not an abstract concept. It is dogfooded 24/7 as the founder's own daily driver—managing actual Chase bank deposits, tax filings with Arthur Pendelton CPA, biometrics from Apple Watch, and communication across production teams.

D
Dustin
Creator & Founder • Los Angeles, CA
Frequently Asked Questions

Everything you need to know.

Got questions about local AI and hardware sovereignty? We've got answers.

ARGUS uses peer-to-peer encrypted local backups. You can configure automatic snapshotting to an external USB drive, your local home NAS (Synology/TrueNAS), or synchronize securely across your personal laptops over your encrypted home Wi-Fi network using local LAN protocols. Zero bytes ever touch a public cloud server.
ARGUS runs on macOS (Apple Silicon M1/M2/M3/M4 with 16GB+ RAM recommended), Windows 11 (NVIDIA RTX 3060+ or Snapdragon X Elite or Intel Core Ultra), and modern Linux distributions with CUDA/ROCm or CPU AVX2 acceleration.
Low-stakes actions (reading data, organizing files, summarizing emails) execute autonomously. However, any destructive or external action—such as dispatching emails, transferring funds, or modifying calendar entries—is automatically placed in your Sovereign Approval Queue where it requires your explicit physical click to execute.
Yes. ARGUS includes native one-click importers for CSV/OFX/QFX bank statements (Chase, Amex, Wells Fargo, etc.), standard mbox/IMAP email archives, and exported Apple Health XML biometrics.
The core local database schema, MCP tool contracts, and protocol layers are open standards based on SQLite, JSON, and standard Python/React. The desktop application is distributed as a sovereign self-contained binary you own forever.
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