Your own AI that no one can switch off.
Ready-made, private and offline. A US$29 download that sets up a small AI on your laptop, with Wikipedia, WikiMed and US mapsNZ mapsAustralian maps (being added) beside it.
Your questions never leave your laptop. There's no account and no login, and it keeps answering with the Wi-Fi off. It runs on an ordinary Windows or Mac laptop with 8 GB of RAM.
One payment, instant download, 30 days to change your mind.
Made in New Zealand.
Offline assistantWi-Fi off
How do I fix a bike puncture?
1. Lever one side of the tyre off the rim.
2. Pump a little air in, listen for the hole.
3. Roughen, glue, patch, refit, pump.
Check it: Wikipedia, "Bicycle tire".
How answers look: short steps, plus the article to check them against.
Everything you ask lives on someone else's server, under their rules.
ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini answer from data centres you'll never see. That works well most of the time. It also means the company decides when it's up, what changes and what happens to your questions.
It can go down. Every online service has bad days. OpenAI lists its own on a public status page, dated. Most are partial: one feature down, slower answers, or more errors than usual.
It can change. Plans, limits and models change on the provider's timetable, not yours.
It sees what you ask. What you type goes to their servers and is handled under their privacy policy, not yours.
OpenAI's status page posted 25 incidents in 30 days. See the history
Counted from status.openai.com, read 1 Nov, 15:08 NZT. Most were partial, not full outages, which is normal for any big online service. Counts for Anthropic, Cloudflare and GitHub are on AI Watch.
AI in the news
Headlines about AI going wrong, exactly as the outlets published them, newest first. Each one opens the original article in a new tab.
- At Johns Hopkins, shadow AI use linked to data breachHealthcare IT News
Headlines read 31 Oct, 20:40 NZT. All recent headlines, and what we leave out, on AI Watch.
A private AI now fits on an ordinary laptop.
Small open AI models now run without the cloud. Ours is a 4B model, about 2.7 GB, that runs on a laptop with 8 GB of RAM and no graphics card. You ask in plain English, the way you'd ask ChatGPT.
It's weaker than ChatGPT and can be wrong. So every answer shows the Wikipedia or WikiMed article it used, and you can read that article yourself. On the right: a real screenshot of Wikipedia's "Bicycle tire" article in the Kiwix reader, Wi-Fi off.
Why we made it
We noticed how much we ask AI in a day. A recipe, an error message, what a warning light means. Every one of those questions went to a server we'd never see.
Then we read OpenAI's status page. It posts problems most weeks: a feature down, slower answers, more errors. That's normal for an online service. But it meant our answers were only there when their servers were.
Small open AI models now run on an ordinary laptop, so we set one up with Wikipedia beside it. The pieces exist, but they don't fit together on their own. One popular AI runner's Windows installer is about 1.7 GB. Another app's terms forbid bundling it. A well-known offline map app has no official Windows version.
So we picked a set that works together on Windows and Mac, and put it behind one installer. Made in New Zealand.
Everything you'd normally look up, kept on your laptop.
The AI, Wikipedia, WikiMed and a US map packa NZ map packAustralian maps (being added) from OpenStreetMap, chosen to work together with the Wi-Fi off. Pick Essentials, the 1 million most-read articles as text (about 22 to 23 GB in total), or Full, every English article with images (about 133 GB). Both are in the one price.
Above: Wikipedia's "Boiling point" article in the Kiwix reader, no connection. Text CC BY-SA.
The full list, with sources and licences30 minutesto download Essentials on a 100 Mbps line. Full takes about 3 hours.
Set it up in one evening, then turn the Wi-Fi off.
This is the part we do for you. The installer checks your free space, fetches each file from its official source, checks every file against its published checksum and sets up the start page. If the connection drops, it carries on where it stopped.
The first minute
Buy and download
You get the installer, the setup guide and the playbook by email straight away.
The next half hour or so
Run the installer
It fetches Wikipedia and WikiMed from Kiwix's mirrors, the AI from its publisher and your map pack from us. Leave it running.
From then on
Turn the Wi-Fi off
Open the start page. Search, read the map, ask the AI. On Windows or Mac, on laptop battery, with no account.
Your own copy of the answers, for the day the cloud goes quiet.
US$29, once. That's about six weeks of ChatGPT Plus at US$20 a month, except this one you keep.NZ$49, once. That's about five weeks of ChatGPT Plus at NZ$40 a month, except this one you keep.A$45, once. ChatGPT Plus is US$20 a month, and this one you keep. It won't replace ChatGPT. It's the copy that's still yours with the Wi-Fi off. If it's not for you, ask for your money back within 30 days.
ChatGPT Plus price from OpenAI's help centre, read 1 Nov 2026.ChatGPT Plus price from ChatGPT's pricing page in New Zealand, read 1 Nov 2026.ChatGPT Plus price from OpenAI's help centre, read 1 Nov 2026.
Bought once, kept up to date for a year
Wikipedia and the maps change every month. For 12 months we email you when a new tested build is ready, with a one-click update: a newer Wikipedia, fresher maps, and a better local model when a stronger open-licence one runs well on an ordinary laptop. After that, it keeps working exactly as it is.
For power cuts too
A crank and solar radio and a backup power bank, delivery included. See the add-ons.Our radio and power bank aren't sent to Australia yet. The laptop runs it on battery. Rather have it on a USB? Join the waitlist.