VAND Technologies · Personal AI, made physical

Own your root.

VAND Core is the first personal AI you can hold — your intelligence, your identity, and your whole encrypted life, machined into one object.

// Your AI doesn't have a parent company.

Meet VAND Core Read the manifesto

Material

Machined titanium

Keys

Never leave silicon

Radio

None · air-gapped

Owner

You. Only you.

The problem

Every AI has a landlord.

ChatGPT, Gemini, Siri, Copilot — each one lives on someone else's computer, tuned to someone else's business model, quietly holding your identity, your data, and your keys.

You have never owned the root of your own digital life. You rent it — from a login, an account, a cloud that can change its terms, get breached, or be acquired.

VAND Core is that root — machined into an object you hold, inherit, and answer to no company for.

The invention

VAND Core

A monoblock of titanium the size of a card. Inside: a secure enclave, an on-device model, and your encrypted vault. It answers questions from the world without ever handing the world your data.

VAND Core — Datasheet · Rev A

MaterialGrade-5 titanium, machined monoblock

Secure elementCC EAL6+ enclave — keys never leave silicon

Root keyEd25519, generated on-device at first power

IntelligenceOn-device model — runs fully offline

VaultAES-256-GCM, versioned, content-addressed

RadioNone. Air-gapped by default

SyncYour iCloud Drive only — no VAND server, ever

Inheritance3-of-5 Shamir shards to people you choose

InterfaceNFC — tap any machine and your AI wakes up

PowerHarvested from host — no battery to fail

Footprint85.6 × 54 mm — ISO/IEC 7810 ID-1

OwnershipBought once. Yours. No account.

One root · one card

Carry it the way you live.

One object, not a product line. The secure core, the vault and your model — in a card that slips into your wallet. Tap, authorize, done.

Flagship

Card

Slips into a wallet. The everyday root — tap, authorize, done.

How it works

Three layers. One object.

The whole thesis, made mechanical: an identity you own, a store nothing extracts, and permission that any AI must ask for — and that you can pull back in one tap.

Layer 01

The Root Key

A cryptographic you, born inside the enclave at first power. Never uploaded, never recoverable by any company. The one thing that can't be acquired.

Layer 02

The Vault

Your whole life — health, money, messages, memory — encrypted and versioned on the object. Services send it questions; it returns answers, never the data.

Layer 03

Agent Authorization

Any AI that acts as you gets a bounded, expiring, single-purpose grant: this data, this limit, until you revoke. Every use is signed and logged. Nothing is blanket.

Every day

What it does before breakfast.

Log in without accounts

Prove who you are to any site and leave no password, no honeypot database behind.

Pay with one-time scope

Your agent buys the thing — capped at one amount, nothing stored anywhere after.

Share exactly three lab values

The clinic reads what it needs, for 24 hours, auto-logged — not your whole history.

Boot your AI anywhere

Tap any machine and your VAND wakes up — your memory, your model, then gone when you leave.

Prove age, not birthday

“Over 18: yes.” The answer travels; the date never does.

Pass it on

3-of-5 shards carry your root to your family. Your AI outlives you, still yours.

The empire, in order

Software today. Silicon next. A standard after.

VAND Core isn't a leap — it's the object the personal AI was always becoming. Each stage makes the last one un-ownable by anyone but you.

2026

VAND

The personal AI. Local-first, private, no accounts. Proves the claim on the machine you already own.

2027

VAND Core

The object. Your root, your vault, your model — machined into titanium. One card, one you.

2028

VAND Root

The vault format becomes an open spec — “Markdown for personal AI.” Anyone can build a Root-compatible client.

2030+

VAND Inside

Devices ship with a Root-compatible runtime. Your Core boots your AI on anything — inheritable across generations.

The promise

An AI that can never be acquired into having a parent company.

Not by design choice — by construction. The root is yours because it was born in your hand and never left. That's the whole company.

Works only for you

Lives only on your metal

Learns only from you

Dies only when you say

Answers to no one else

Download VAND →Local first. No account.