Capture every decision — searchable by you today, by your heirs tomorrow.
AURA is a self-hosted workstation that turns your meetings, drafts, and decisions into a structured archive. Runs on your hardware. Cited answers, not generated guesses.
Charter cohort. Pre-launch. Limited.
The Loss
What Dies With You?
We have Einstein's equations. We have Shakespeare's sonnets. But we lost their Why.
Your grandfather built a business from nothing. He navigated the 2008 crash. He knew when to pivot, when to hold. You inherited the company. But not the intuition.
of human knowledge dies with the person.
The trophies remain. The strategy is lost.
The Unwritten Rules
The Alternatives
Why Not Just…
We get this question a lot. Here's the honest comparison.
AURA Hardware as a Service | ChatGPT Cloud AI | Rewind.ai Screen recording | Executive Assistant Human | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Privacy | ✓ Local-first | ✗ Trains on your data | ~ Cloud-dependent | ✓ Private |
| Cost (Annual) | ✓ $3K – $15K / mo HaaS + setup | ~ $240 / yr ChatGPT Plus | ~ $400 / yr Unlimited plan | ✗ $200K+ / yr + benefits |
| Context Capture | ✓ 95% Automatic | ✗ 0% No memory | ~ 30% Screen only | ~ 60% Manual notes |
| Data Ownership | ✓ You own hardware | ✗ OpenAI owns it | ✗ Rewind owns it | ~ They leave |
| Scalability | ✓ Infinite parallel | ~ Rate limited | ~ Storage limits | ✗ One person |
Local Infrastructure
The AURA Home Server
Your privacy is guaranteed by physics, not policies. AURA runs entirely on your own hardware.
Dedicated Neural Engine
High-performance NPU clusters designed for real-time local LLM inference (Llama 3 70B+) without latency.
Air-Gapped Architecture
Your data never leaves the premises unless you explicitly authorize it. Encrypted at rest, in transit, in use.
Autonomous Reliability
Managed hardware with redundant failovers. We monitor server health — never the data inside it.
Composite scenarios
What an AURA Chronicle conversation looks like
Illustrative scenarios — not real customers. Each example traces a query back to an actual source memory (memo, journal, voice note) that AURA would cite in response.
It felt like a betrayal when I fired Uncle Ben in ’02, didn’t it? But keeping him was killing the culture. You aren’t firing a friend; you’re protecting the 500 families who rely on this company surviving.
Dithering is the betrayal. Do it with grace, but do it today.
Slow down. When we lost the house in ’91, do you remember what I told you? “We can live in a box, but we cannot live with a lie.”
If you are speeding up to outrun the truth, you have already crashed. Miss the quarter. Keep your soul.
Because sunshine sells real estate, but mud sells the truth. You only see where the drainage fails when it pours.
Never buy a sunny day, kid. You’re buying the storm.
Every answer cites a source. AURA refuses to fabricate — if there’s no matching memory, it says so.
The Three Windows
Past · Present · Future
Each window helps you today — and preserves your genius forever.
The Chronicle
The system’s complete, searchable memory.
Search every past decision and email instantly.
Your descendants can query your complete thinking on any topic.
“Compile a timeline of every communication related to the 2024 merger.”
→ Instant results from emails, Slack, meetings, notes
The Dashboard
A real-time, context-aware command center.
AI processes your work overnight while you sleep.
Every interaction trains the system to think more like you.
“Switch to Research Mode.”
→ UI reconfigures, surfaces relevant docs, mutes distractions
The Simulator
A powerful what-if engine.
Model future scenarios based on your experience.
Your strategic framework continues advising future leaders.
“Model the impact of a 15% budget cut on the Q4 roadmap.”
→ Analyzes dependencies, surfaces risks, suggests alternatives
How it works
From inbox to archive in one workflow
A simplified view of a single capture-to-citation loop. Nothing in this loop leaves your hardware.
Capture
Meetings, email, drafts, voice notes, and decision logs flow into AURA via local connectors. No third-party API is required.
Structure
A local model extracts entities, decisions, and rationale. Each record is tagged, time-stamped, and stored on your hardware.
Cite
When you ask, AURA answers with the actual source record. No source, no answer — the model refuses to invent context.
Variance Lock keeps the model from speculating. Redaction lets you scrub records you don’t want preserved.
The Engine
Your Personal AI Team
AURA isn't one AI. It's an ecosystem of specialized bots, each mastering a domain of your life.
Meeting Bot
Attends every meeting, captures decisions, tracks action items, connects insights across conversations.
Research Bot
Monitors your reading, synthesizes patterns, surfaces relevant insights when you need them.
Decision Bot
Tracks every decision, the context behind it, the outcomes. Learns your decision framework.
Communication Bot
Analyzes your email, Slack, messages. Understands your relationships and patterns.
Strategy Bot
Connects long-term goals with daily actions. Identifies misalignments, suggests course corrections.
Legacy Bot
Curates the durable patterns in your thinking — the framework that explains the rest.
Hardware-as-a-Service
Pricing
Monthly subscription includes the hardware. Paid tiers carry a one-time $5,000 setup fee (hardware configuration, on-site provisioning, and initial fine-tuning).
AURA Core
Self-host the Reader protocol. For builders who want to run a node themselves.
- ✓ Reader-protocol source release
- ✓ Local model adapters
- ✓ Community support only
Ascend Pro
Dedicated home node. Three concurrent bot threads.
- ✓ Dedicated air-gapped node (hardware included)
- ✓ 3 specialized bot threads
- ✓ Chronicle archive + export
Ascend Exec
High-performance mesh node. Ten concurrent threads.
- ✓ High-performance mesh node (hardware included)
- ✓ 10 specialized bot threads
- ✓ Priority concierge support
Unlimited
Liquid-cooled rack. Unlimited threads. Charter access.
- ★ Liquid-cooled rack (hardware included)
- ★ Unlimited specialized threads
- ★ Full ecosystem API + early-access roadmap
Reservation deposit on this site is $250 and 100% refundable. Membership begins after hardware ships.
ROI Calculator
Calculate Your Return
See the real cost of cognitive fragmentation.
Your Numbers
Your Annual Loss
Over 5 years, the net saving is $468,750 against the subscription cost — figures are based on your inputs, not external benchmarks.
FAQ
Sharp questions, plain answers
What happens if AURA (the company) shuts down? +
You own the hardware node. Weights and source data are stored locally on your premises. The Reader protocol — the code that talks to your model — is published as an open spec so heirs or your IT team can access the node even if our servers go away.
Will the model invent things I never said? +
A "Variance Lock" lets you cap model temperature. At minimum temperature the model refuses to answer unless it finds a direct match in your recorded history. You trade creativity for traceable answers — every response cites its source memory.
Can I delete specific memories? +
Yes. Redaction targets specific topics, people, or date ranges. Once scrubbed, the underlying records are overwritten and the model is re-fine-tuned against the remaining set.
Who is behind AURA? +
AURA is built by Austin Nguyen, an independent operator. The product is pre-launch — there is no investor list, customer roster, or marketing team to namedrop. If that matters more than the product, this isn’t for you yet.
Built by
Austin Nguyen
Independent operator. Building AURA on his own hardware, in his own time — because the only people he wants reading his archive are the ones he chooses to show it to.
Pre-launch. No outside investors. The product is the proof.
Reserve a Node
Charter cohort, pre-launch. $250 reservation deposit — 100% refundable.