Blink Box · private AI appliance

Your own AI. In your office. Off the cloud.

Blink Box is a plug-in AI server your whole team can use from their normal browser. Client statements, PII, deal files: everything is processed on your hardware and nothing ever leaves the building. No third-party model ever sees your data.

Built, hardened, and maintained by senior engineers from Snap, Bishop Fox, DARPA, and Oak Ridge National Lab. We build and run custom AI inside businesses for a living. This is that expertise in a box.

The problem

Your team already uses AI. Compliance just can't see it.

PII can't go to cloud AI

Advisors, accountants, and operators are barred from putting client data into ChatGPT or Claude. So the most valuable work stays manual.

Redaction by hand doesn't scale

Firms literally pay offshore teams to strip names out of spreadsheets before pasting them into a chatbot. Slow, expensive, and one mistake from an incident.

One vendor shouldn't own your AI

The frontier labs are consolidating fast. A model you run on your own hardware is a hedge no cloud contract can offer.

How it works

Plug it in. Open your browser. That's the rollout.

Nothing is installed on anyone's computer. The box joins your office network like a printer or file server and serves a private chat page to your team.

01

We deliver a hardened box

A Mac mini, Mac Studio, or GPU workstation preloaded with a leading open-weight AI model, configured and locked down by our team. White-glove install, on site or shipped.

02

Your team uses it in the browser

Everyone visits your private address, like ai.yourfirm.local, from their normal managed laptop. Chat, drop in documents, ask questions. It feels like the tools they already know.

03

We keep it current

Open models improve every quarter. We push model upgrades, patches, and improvements remotely, with an audit-friendly changelog. You always run the best model your hardware supports.

Two ways to run it

Useful on day one. Powerful when connected.

Mode 1 · Standalone

Zero integration, zero exposure

  • Paste or drag-and-drop anything, including PII
  • Summarize statements, draft client notes, analyze spreadsheets
  • Processing happens entirely on the box
  • Works the day it arrives, no IT project required

Mode 2 · Connected

Reads your systems, answers on-prem

  • Read-only connections to your document store, CRM, and data exports
  • Ask questions across your firm's own knowledge
  • Data flows from your cloud to your box, never to an AI vendor
  • Scoped, implemented, and documented by our engineers

What you get

One box. Everything on it. Nothing beyond it.

Blink Box sits inside your office like any other piece of network equipment. Your team connects from the laptops they already have. The only thing that ever crosses your walls is our signed updates coming in.

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  • An open-weight AI modelThe best open model your hardware can run, swapped for better ones as they ship. The weights live on the box, so no AI company is in the loop.
  • A chat app your team already knowsChatGPT-style interface with individual logins, served to normal browsers over your office network.
  • A document workspaceDrag in statements, PDFs, and spreadsheets. Ask questions. Build a private knowledge base of your firm's own material over time.
  • A hardened machineEncrypted disk, locked-down OS, and documented network behavior your IT person can verify line by line.
  • A managed update pipeModels and patches flow in on our signed channel. Health signals flow out. Your content never does.

Pricing

Own the box. We keep it sharp.

One-time price covers hardware, hardened configuration, and white-glove install. The monthly plan covers model upgrades, patches, monitoring, and support.

Starter

Mac mini · 48GB unified memory

$7,500 one-time

+ $750/mo care plan

  • Private chat for 1 to 5 people
  • Document Q&A over your own files, built in
  • Fast ~30B-class open model
  • Quarterly model refreshes, pushed remotely
  • Next-business-day replacement box
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Enterprise

GPU workstation · RTX Pro 6000 class

$50,000+ one-time

+ $3,500/mo care plan

  • The largest open-weight models available
  • 15 to 50+ concurrent users
  • Agentic workflows and automations
  • SSO, audit logging, admin controls
  • Dedicated engineer on your account
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Prefer no upfront cost? Ask about Blink Box as a monthly service.

Every tier includes

A managed appliance, not a science project.

Hardened by pros

Configured and locked down by engineers with offensive-security backgrounds, so your IT team gets real documentation.

Structurally private

The box cannot send your prompts or files to any AI vendor. Full airgap mode available for the strictest environments.

Always improving

New open-weight models ship constantly. We benchmark them and push the best one to your box every quarter.

Humans on call

Onboarding for your team, support when you need it, and a replacement box on the way if anything fails.

FAQ

The questions your compliance team will ask.

Our data lives in cloud systems. How does a box help?

The box pulls from your cloud systems with read-only credentials, processes everything locally, and answers locally. The question for compliance changes from "can we send client PII to a third-party AI vendor?" to "can our own internal server read our own data?" The first is a hard no at most firms. The second is how your file server already works.

IT won't let us install AI tools on company laptops.

Nothing is installed on any laptop. Blink Box serves a web page over your office network, so your team uses their normal managed browser. To your IT policy it is network equipment, not end-user software.

How do we know you can't see our data?

It is structural, not a promise. The model runs on hardware you control, and we will show your IT team exactly what network connections exist (updates in, nothing out). For the strictest environments we offer a full airgap mode where updates arrive on signed media instead of over the network.

Is a local model as good as ChatGPT?

We are honest about this: the frontier cloud models are still ahead on the hardest reasoning. But today's open-weight models are excellent at the work firms actually can't send to the cloud: summarizing documents, drafting client communications, extracting data from statements, and answering questions over your own files. The Team and Enterprise tiers run models that surprise people. We demo on your real workflows before you buy.

What happens as models improve?

That is the point of the care plan. Open-weight models improve every few months, and we push the best available model for your hardware to your box, tested and tuned, with release notes your compliance team can file.

Who is behind this?

Blink Build Studios is a private AI implementation partner. Our senior engineers come from Snap, Bishop Fox, DARPA, and Oak Ridge National Lab, and we build and run custom AI inside data-constrained businesses, including financial services firms, every day. Blink Box is our productized version of what those clients keep asking for.

See your own documents answered privately, live.

Bring a real workflow to a 30-minute demo. If a private model can't handle it, we'll tell you on the call.

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