FAQ

ARCADIA is a self-contained, offline knowledge appliance — an AI workstation pre-loaded with hundreds of gigabytes of survival, medical, agricultural, and reference material. It runs locally with no internet, no cloud, and no accounts.

No. ARCADIA is fully offline by design. An optional ethernet uplink lets you download additional content packs and software updates, but day-to-day use needs zero internet connectivity.

Families and households who want a real, durable knowledge backstop — not a luxury. Off-gridders, rural communities, preparedness-minded parents, and anyone who has watched the internet go down once too often.

ARCADIA ships as a complete grab-and-go kit packed in a waterproof hard-shell case with custom foam cutouts. The full kit weighs 35 lb and includes:

• The ARCADIA appliance — a small fanless AI workstation with 128 GB unified memory and a 1 TB NVMe SSD
• A waterproof hard-shell carrying case with custom foam cutouts for every component
• USB speaker/microphone puck for hands-free voice
• USB-C expansion hub
• 256 GB USB flash drive
• EcoFlow River 3 portable power station (included free) — runs the unit for hours unplugged
• 100 W foldable solar panel (included free) — recharge the River 3 indefinitely from the sun
• Power cord, quickstart card, printed manual, and a license card with per-unit update credentials

Everything fits in the carrying case. Plug the appliance into wall power, a generator, the included River 3, or any 100–150 W source. With the bundled solar panel and battery, the kit is fully self-sufficient.

47–54 tokens per second on the local language model — comparable to many cloud chat services. The appliance uses a unified-memory GPU architecture optimized for AI workloads.

Roughly the same as a high-end laptop charger under load. It runs comfortably from a small inverter or solar setup capable of sustaining 100–150 W.

Wikipedia, Wikivoyage, Wikibooks, Wiktionary, Project Gutenberg, military and medical manuals, agricultural extension guides, plant identification, planet-scale offline maps, and a curated video archive. About 432 GB before optional content packs.

Yes. ARCADIA accepts user-uploaded PDFs and text documents through the Settings page. They’re indexed alongside the built-in library and become searchable from the same interfaces.

Yes — multiple devices connect simultaneously over the appliance’s private WiFi. Each device has its own chat history (stored on the device, not the appliance). One person can ask the AI medical questions on a phone while another browses Wikipedia on a laptop.

Limited alpha now; broader availability later. Sign up for the waitlist and you’ll be first to hear when units are available to pre-order or purchase.

Pricing is finalized closer to general availability. The hardware itself is in the small-server range; ARCADIA’s value is in the curated content and the integrated, offline-first software stack on top of it.

Hardware warranty terms ship with the unit and are also published on the Legal page. Software updates and content refreshes are included for the life of the unit.

Updates are signed at build time and verified on-device against a public key baked into your unit at provisioning. The appliance checks daily over a tiny authenticated update channel; the bytes are signed and verified before applying. Nothing is ever installed unless your unit signs off on it cryptographically.

None. There are no accounts, no telemetry, no analytics. Conversations stay on your device. The only network traffic the appliance ever generates is the daily update check, which sends a per-unit license token and downloads signed update artifacts — nothing else.

Yes — the appliance runs Linux and the application stack is open. You can add your own packs, models, or scripts. We document the supported customization points in the Manual; anything beyond that is at your own risk.