The moment it matters
Every AI assistant you have ever used phones home. It needs the cloud, your account and a working network. When the power is out, the tower is down, or you are forty miles from pavement, it is a brick.
Off-Grid AI is a USB drive. Plug it into your Mac or Windows computer and you have an expert reference library — and an AI that reads it and answers your questions, showing you the source every time.
No internet. No account. No subscription. Not as a fallback mode — that is simply how it works, every time you use it.
How do I make creek water safe to drink with no filter?
Let the sediment settle, then pour it through a cloth to catch the grit. Bring it to a rolling boil and hold it there for one full minute — three minutes if you are above 6,500 feet. That kills the bacteria, viruses and parasites. It will not remove chemicals or fuel contamination, so pick your water source carefully.
Core Library · Water › Purification
Every answer names its source. Tap it and the page it came from opens.
The whole product
Five tabs, one promise: you can always see where an answer came from, and the product will tell you when it does not know.
Works offline
Intel
Ask a question in plain words and get a straight answer drawn from the reference library — with the source named every time, so you can go and read it yourself. The library is not frozen: new references and expansion packs arrive whenever you next have internet, and every source is named in the answer so you can judge it yourself.
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Library
Where Intel answers a question, Library lets you open the page the answer came from. Search the shipped manuals and references directly — then add your own PDFs so the library knows your equipment, not just equipment in general.
Works offline
Scout
Photograph a wound, a plant, a part, or anything else you cannot name. Scout describes what it sees, then searches the cited library for what to do about it.
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Companion
Plan a build. Draft a checklist. Work through a scenario before you are standing in it. Three chat models ship on the drive and OGAI picks the one your hardware can run — or drop any GGUF model you like into the models folder and use that instead.
Works offline
Maps
Streets, terrain, topographic contours and trails, with no connection and no account. Search for a place, drop a waypoint, read the coordinates, measure distance and bearing, check elevation, and work out a route between two points. Then ask Intel a geographic question and the map answers it: find the nearest mapped water source, its distance and bearing — and Intel tells you how to make that water safe to drink, cited from the library like any other answer.
All five run on your own computer, with no internet, no account and no subscription.
How it works
From a drive in your hand to an answer on your screen in about a minute. No setup wizard, no account to create, no network to find.
Any Mac or Windows computer with a free USB port. Nothing installs itself into your system and nothing phones home.
It starts on your own machine and loads the library. Around a minute, the first time.
No prompt engineering, no special syntax. Ask it the way you would ask a person who knows.
Every answer names the manual and the section it came from. Open it and read the page yourself.
What you need
The drive carries the library. Your computer does the thinking — so how fast an answer arrives depends on your machine, not on the drive.
Library
Two shelves in one tab. Everything we put on the drive — and everything you add to it. Both fully searchable, both entirely offline.
Included on every drive. Nothing to add, nothing extra to buy.
My Documents
Add your own PDFs and they become searchable right alongside everything we shipped. This is the feature that makes it yours.
The manual for your truck. Your well pump. Your generator, your solar inverter, your tractor. Medication leaflets. The property survey. Livestock records. The documentation nobody would ever put in a general library, because it is specific to you — indexed and searchable with no internet, for as long as you own the drive.
Baseline for an 8 GB machine. OGAI measures your hardware at startup and raises the ceiling when it finds the memory — more RAM, more documents. That’s tens of thousands of pages before you reach the floor.
† Documents, storage and file size are checked the moment you add a file, so you are told straight away. Passages are counted while indexing runs — a text-dense PDF can reach that limit after the upload already looked successful. An upload is also refused if it would leave less than 1 GB free on the drive.
Your file is read, split and indexed on your own machine — because there is nowhere to upload it to. No server, no account, no exceptions.
Indexing runs deliberately slowly, one piece at a time, so building an index never slows down a question you are asking at that same moment.
A new document becomes searchable the instant its index is complete, and not a moment before. You will never search a partly-finished one.
If the machine dies mid-index, the job picks up where it left off next time you start — rather than quietly leaving you with half a manual.
Scout
Some things you cannot describe in words, because you do not know what they are called. Photograph it and ask anyway.
The camera decides what to look up. The library decides what to say.
Scout’s vision model writes a factual description of your photo — it never writes the answer. The answer comes from the same cited library Intel uses.
Injuries — the type, the location, and how bad it looks from here.
Plants, mushrooms and anything you are wondering about eating.
Tools, parts, and mechanical or electrical objects you cannot name.
Anything that does not fit the other three.
Your photo
What kind of mushroom is this?
A pale tan cap roughly 6 cm across, gills rather than pores underneath, a solid stem with no ring on it, growing straight out of damp leaf litter.
That rules a lot out and settles nothing. The marks that decide it are at the base of the stem and in a spore print — photograph where the stem enters the ground, and leave the cap face down on white paper overnight.
Gilled fungi — field marks and what to photograph next
Five photographs, five answers. Hover to hold one on screen.
Scout writes down what is actually in the frame — the size, the colour, the edges, the wear, what it is sitting on — and that description becomes the search. It is why you can ask about a part you cannot name, or a plant you have never seen before, and still get an answer out of a library that has never seen your photograph.
When one photo is not enough, it tells you what the second one should show: the base of a stem, the far side of a fitting, the plate you did not think to include. A specific instruction is worth more than a confident guess, and it is the one you can act on standing where you are.
Severe injuries and electrical hazards work differently again. A photo showing heavy bleeding or an exposed conductor escalates straight into the emergency guidance rather than being handled as an ordinary question.
Maps
Every mapping app you own stops at the edge of coverage. This one does not have an edge, because there was never a connection to lose.
The map decides where. The library decides what to do about it.
Geographic answers come from the map data on the drive, not from a model guessing at coordinates. Intel reads that result and explains it from the same cited library it uses for everything else.
Street maps, terrain, topographic contours and mapped infrastructure — rendered from data on the drive, not fetched from a tile server.
Drop a waypoint, read its coordinates, and find it again. Search for places and geographic features by name with nothing connected.
Work out a route between two points, measure the distance between them, and take a bearing.
Read elevation at a point, follow contour lines, and locate mapped trails where the installed packs carry them.
“Find the nearest mapped water source and tell me how to make it safe to drink.”
Maps answers where
The nearest mapped surface water, its coordinates, how far away it is and on what bearing — read off the map data on the drive.
Intel answers what to do
How to treat water from that kind of source, cited to the manual it came from, so you can open the page and read it yourself.
Neither half is the model improvising. The location is a fact from the map; the treatment is a passage from the library.
The drive ships with a base map. Regional packs add street-level detail, contours, terrain and trails for the areas you actually move through, so a larger drive carries more of the world at depth instead of all of it thinly.
Where it stops: coverage is only as deep as the packs you have installed. Geographic facts come from the map data rather than the model, so where the data does not reach, Maps says so instead of estimating — the same rule Intel follows when the library has no answer.
Honest by design
Every other AI is graded on how fluent it sounds. This one is graded on whether you can check it — and on whether it admits the moment it is out of its depth.
Ask a question and it goes and finds the passage that answers it. It is not recalling something it read once during training — it is reading a document, now, in front of you.
When the library does not cover your question, it says so instead of producing a confident paragraph anyway. Refusing well was harder to build than answering, and it is the part we are proudest of.
Not a privacy policy promising your data is safe. There is no connection, so there is no route for your questions to leave your machine in the first place.
It is not rolling dice for variety. That matters at three in the morning when you are re-checking something you were told an hour ago and need it to still say the same thing.
Not "according to reliable sources". The manual, the section, the page — open it and read it yourself, and disagree with it if you think it is wrong.
It loads one model at a time, deliberately, so the whole thing runs on an ordinary laptop instead of demanding a workstation you would have to go and buy.
Companion
Companion is the open-ended tab — for planning a build, drafting a checklist, or thinking through a scenario before you are standing in one. It is a conversation, not a citation, and the product is blunt about the difference. This banner sits in the tab itself:
Companion answers come from a general AI model with no source verification and may be wrong. Not preparedness guidance — use Intel for survival or medical answers.
We shipped a product that tells you when not to trust it and sends you to the verified tab for anything that matters. That is the clearest signal we can give you that the cited answers elsewhere are cited for a reason.
Built like it matters
You are buying a library that has to still be trustworthy years from now, on a day when you cannot check it against anything. So it is built to refuse rather than to be convenient.
The reference library and its search indexes are not files sitting on a stick waiting to be read. They are encrypted, and unlocked only in memory, only at startup, and only by the signed application.
The key is derived at startup from that drive’s own hardware identity. Copy the files onto a different drive and they will not open — the product refuses and stops. We test this on real hardware: a wrong serial is rejected outright.
If any part of the library fails its integrity check, the product refuses to start rather than serve you content it cannot verify. There is no “continue anyway” button, because there is no version of that button we would trust.
The library ships with a cryptographic signature that is checked every single time it starts. Content that has been modified does not load.
The application is code-signed and notarised on macOS with a hardened runtime, and code-signed on Windows. Your computer can confirm it came from us before it runs.
None of this needs a server, an account, or a licence check over the internet. Unlocking happens entirely on your own machine, offline, for as long as you own the drive.
The technical version, if you want it
The library is encrypted with AES-256, streamed and authenticated in chunks so tampering is detected as it loads, with the key held in the signed application and bound to your drive’s hardware identity.
That it is unbreakable. Anyone who buys a unit owns the hardware it runs on, and we are not going to pretend otherwise.
The goal is to make copying the library uneconomical — not to claim it is impossible. When a company tells you their encryption is military-grade and cannot be defeated, they are selling you the adjective. We would rather tell you exactly what it does and let you judge it.
Expansion packs
The drive already covers eighteen subjects. These add professional depth in one of them. Each is sold separately and loads onto the same drive you already own.
For the person everyone looks at when someone is hurt
Trauma stabilisation, cardiac and respiratory emergencies, infection management and drug references — well past where a first-aid course stops.
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Diagnosing illness, dressing wounds, controlling parasites and assisting difficult births, for livestock and working animals.
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Add to your driveFor keeping your own lights on
Fault-finding, solar arrays, sizing a battery bank, inverters and safe off-grid wiring, with the code references alongside.
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Add to your driveFor everything with an engine in it
Engine repair, fuel systems, transmissions and small-engine maintenance — petrol and diesel, vehicles and equipment.
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Add to your driveFor thinking clearly about security
Situational awareness, defensive planning, movement, and coordinating a small group when everyone is tired.
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Add to your driveFor growing more than a garden
Soil management, crop rotation, seed saving and pest control, aimed at real yields rather than a hobby plot.
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From the field
It tells me where the answer came from. That’s the whole reason I trust it.
Worth it, but the first launch takes long enough that I thought it had frozen.
No signal for nine days. It never once cared.
Half my old manuals are scans and it won’t take them. Everything else has been excellent.
I loaded the manuals for my generator, the well pump and the tractor. Now it answers questions about my equipment, not equipment in general.
Solid reference tool. It just isn’t the AI assistant I pictured — it answers from its library and not much past it.
Photographed a mushroom out of curiosity. It described it and refused to say whether it was safe. Honestly, that’s when I started trusting the rest of it.
Took me a week to learn which tab to ask. Once I did, I stopped second-guessing it.
Rash on my forearm and a plant I couldn’t place. Scout described the leaves, the library walked me through washing off the oil and what to watch for. Handled it that night instead of guessing.
Three models on the drive and it picked the right one for my laptop without asking me anything.
Expensive. Also the only thing I own that still works when nothing else does.
My son cut his leg badly and I froze. I typed one sentence and it led with 911, then talked me through pressure until the ambulance came. I’ve never been so glad to own something.
Scout won’t run on my old laptop — it says so plainly instead of crashing, which I appreciated, but the camera feature is half of why I bought it.
200 documents on a one-terabyte drive doesn’t add up to me.
Love that I can put my own models on it. I’ve got the 512 GB drive with my documents loaded and I can run AI search across all of them. Thanks guys — great product.
It admits when it doesn’t know, and I respect that. I’ve just hit it more often than I expected on the narrow stuff.
Who makes it
A veteran-owned, family-run preparedness company in Seneca, South Carolina. We made this because knowledge should not go offline when everything else does.
Off-Grid AI is made by Mountain Ready, a family-run preparedness company. We build the gear we use ourselves, and we ship from the USA.
Mountain Ready has spent years supplying first aid kits, water filtration, backup power and communications equipment to people living off-grid and preparing for the days the grid is not there. Off-Grid AI came out of the same conversations.
Most AI products are built to keep you talking to them. This one is built to answer your question, show you where the answer came from, and get out of your way. There is nothing to keep you engaged with, because there is no engagement to sell.
The library keeps growing — new subjects, new expansion packs, and refinements to what is already there. A drive you buy today is not a snapshot we walk away from.
A USB drive holding an expert reference library and an AI that reads it, both running on your own Mac or Windows computer. Ask a question in plain words and get a straight answer with the source named, so you can go and read it yourself. No internet, no account and no subscription — not as a fallback, but as how it works every time.
Yes. The AI, the library and the search index all live on the drive and run on your machine. Unplug the ethernet, switch off the Wi-Fi, take it somewhere with no signal at all — it behaves exactly the same, because there was never a connection involved.
Eighteen subjects ship on every drive: water, food production, shelter, navigation, communications, medical, energy, firecraft, sanitation, mobility, security, tools, logistics, wild food, infrastructure, group resilience, decision support and mindset. Six optional expansion packs add professional depth for medics, vets, electricians, mechanics, tactical operators and growers.
Yes, and it is the feature people are most surprised by. Add your own PDFs in the Library tab and they become searchable alongside everything we shipped — the manual for your truck, your well pump, your generator, your inverter.
One thing to know before you start: the PDF needs real text in it. If you can select the words on the page, it will index. A scan or a photograph of a page cannot be read and will not load — there is no OCR in the product today.
Today's limits are 200 documents, 2 GB in total and 100 MB per file, with a ceiling of 50,000 searchable passages, and an upload is refused if it would leave less than 1 GB free on the drive. Those numbers exist to protect the smallest machine we support rather than because of anything fundamental, and we expect to raise them. All of the indexing happens on your own machine, because there is nowhere to upload anything to.
Photograph something and ask about it. Scout looks at the image, writes a factual description of what it can see, then searches the cited library for what to do about it. There are four modes — wounds, plants, parts, and everything else. The camera decides what to look up; the library decides what to say.
Yes. Maps ships on the drive: street maps, terrain, topographic contours and mapped trails, plus waypoints, coordinates, distance, bearing, elevation and offline routing — all with no connection. Intel can query it too, so you can ask for the nearest mapped water source and get the location from the map data and the treatment guidance from the cited library. Coverage depth depends on which Map Packs you have installed.
No, and that is deliberate. Ask about the edibility of anything it reads as possible food and it declines — every time, even when the photo has no name attached and is described only by shape and colour. It will tell you what it can see; it will not tell you it is safe. A confident wrong answer here can kill someone, so the product is built so that it cannot produce one. Scout describes things — it does not identify species with authority.
Intel answers from the cited library and shows you the source. Companion is open-ended conversation for planning and thinking out loud, and it is not sourced — the product says so itself, in the tab: "Companion answers come from a general AI model with no source verification and may be wrong. Not preparedness guidance — use Intel for survival or medical answers." Use Companion to think. Use Intel to decide.
People who are a long way from help. Homesteaders, rural families, preppers, expedition leaders, off-grid households, volunteer responders, and anyone who wants a reference library that keeps working on the day everything else does not.
No. It is a reference and decision-support tool, not a substitute for a licensed professional. In a life-threatening emergency, call 911 if you possibly can. What it does is flag emergency conditions and point you at the standard protocols so you can act sensibly until real help arrives.
A Mac or a Windows computer with a free USB port. 16 GB of memory is the comfortable minimum. A dedicated graphics card makes answers arrive faster but is not required. Worth knowing: the drive carries the library, and your computer does the thinking — so speed depends on your machine, not on the drive.
No. There is no account, no server and no licence check, so there is no route for your questions or your documents to go anywhere. This is structural rather than a policy we are promising to keep — offline, there is simply no network path for anything to travel down.
The library is encrypted, and the key is derived from your drive's own hardware identity — copy the files to a different drive and they will not open. The library also carries a signature checked at every startup, and if any part of it fails that check the product refuses to start rather than serve you content it cannot verify. We will not tell you this is impossible to defeat; the honest goal is to make copying it uneconomical, not to claim it cannot be done.
Every Intel answer is grounded in the library and names its source, so you can go and check it rather than taking our word for it. When the library does not cover your question, it tells you that instead of inventing something. That is the mechanism — retrieval, citation, and refusal when the evidence is missing. It is not a guarantee that the software can never be wrong, and we are not going to claim it is.
The library reflects the build date of the drive you receive. We ship periodic refreshes, which you can either order on a new drive or apply through our optional online refresh tool when you happen to have internet. Your choice — nothing expires and nothing stops working if you never update it.
The day you need this is not the day you can order it. That is rather the point.
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