Hardware by Scale
Five tiers. From solo operator to institutional deployment. Every component is the one we build on and deploy in production.
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Individual, freelancer, sole practitioner
Single-operator Proof of Presence, USB-HID injection, basic biometric gate (planned - Phase 2)
The hardware we build on. The hardware we deploy.
M5Cardputer ADV
~€40-60The credit-card-sized device running PresenceOS. ESP32-S3 dual-core at 240MHz. 240x135 colour display. 56-key keyboard. Built-in microphone. SD card slot. WiFi and BLE. Hardware SHA-256 and AES-256 acceleration. This is the field unit. The operator mirror.
Get the CardPuter on Amazon →YubiKey 5 NFC
~€40-50The physical authentication anchor for the entire sovereignty stack. FIDO2, U2F, PIV, OpenPGP, TOTP. USB-A and NFC. Without this key, nothing sensitive authenticates. The last intermediary.
Get the YubiKey on Amazon →Heltec LoRa32 V3 (868MHz, pair)
~€29-41 each (buy 2)The transport layer. LoRa mesh networking (planned - Phase 2) without cellular, WiFi, or internet. Range: 2-10km outdoor. Two nodes needed: one base station, one field relay. Encrypted channel with AES-256 PSK. No third party aware it happened.
Always connect the antenna BEFORE powering on. Booting without an antenna will permanently damage the RF chip.
BLE Heart Rate Monitor
~€15-25The biometric gate (planned - Phase 2). Standard Bluetooth heart rate monitor. Feeds HRV data to the CardPuter. When stress is detected, the injection gate presents a harder prompt before AI fires. The gate closes when you need it most.
Get a BLE HRM on Amazon →MicroSD Card 64GB
~€8-15Context Packet storage. One year of session logs fits in approximately 7MB. A 64GB card holds a lifetime of decisions. Hash-chained, tamper-evident, offline-readable.
Get a MicroSD on Amazon →Two stacks. Two owners.
Local AI inference on hardware you own. No cloud API keys. No per-token billing. No third party that can turn it off. The cloud equivalent costs thousands per year in GPU instance fees. Your infrastructure runs on electricity you already pay for. Break-even in days, not months.
Brainiac Sovereignty Appliance (Coming soon) - infrastructure configured per customer requirements. Local AI models, verification API, and sovereignty stack, delivered plug-and-play.
Which tier are you?
Not sure where you fit? The assessment at /certify will determine your operator tier. The hardware follows the operator, not the other way around.
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