This deck sells the larger idea: intelligence that scales local, not global. It is a category deck, not a feature deck — the audience should leave believing a new category exists, that it is inevitable, and that we are years ahead in it with working software. The tone is calmer and more confident than the Pocket deck. Thirteen slides. Let silence and space do work.
The arc
The world's one-direction problem → the counter-thesis → what sovereign actually is → locality as safety, privacy, and economics → the unit economics of giving it away → memory as the compounding asset → it already runs → the two-direction flywheel → the ask.
Slide-by-slide
| # | Slide | Narrative beat | Notes for design and copy |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Title | Intelligence that lives where you live. | Near-black slide, single warm light source. No product UI yet. |
| 2 | The one-direction problem | All serious AI today is rented: central, metered, revocable. Whole communities are priced out or locked out. | Visual: many homes, all wired to one distant tower. |
| 3 | The counter-thesis | Scale local. An intelligence owned by the household and the community that runs it — given, not rented; granted, not revoked. | Invert slide 2: the light moves into the homes. |
| 4 | What it is | A complete system on efficient consumer hardware: conversation, a living library, a canvas for thought, and a reader of book-press quality. | First product visuals: the four surfaces, shown quietly. |
| 5 | Safe by locality | The radius of any failure is one home. The community integrates the system into its own norms — safety as a property of scale, not just policy. | This is the differentiated safety argument; give it a full slide and plain language. |
| 6 | Private by locality | Conversations, books, and days stay on hardware the family owns. Nothing leaves unless they choose it. | One line, one image. Resist the urge to add bullet points. |
| 7 | Efficient by design | Inference that draws less power than a reading lamp; typography and rendering engineered to waste nothing. Efficiency is what makes giving it away possible. | The technical efficiency slide: low energy, no waste. Sets up the economics slide that follows. |
| 8 | The economics of giving it away | Low energy means low cost; low cost means priceable for everyone — and in markets incumbents cannot serve, giving it away is the business. The unit of sale is the household or the community, not the seat. The asset is memory that compounds. | The economics slide, stated plainly. Beat: energy → cost → reach → the gift is the model. Percentages and direction only — no prices, no counts. Keep it as still as the rest. |
| 9 | Memory that compounds | The system grows in wisdom and presence: it remembers the community's conversations, its books, its days — and becomes a historical memory over time. | The emotional summit of the deck. Image: shelves of years. |
| 10 | It already runs | Live today: local models, local corpus, the folio reader, semantic canvas, daily records — working software, not a manifesto. | Screenshot-led. Mark everything live versus directional, per the charter. |
| 11 | The flagship demonstrations | Our own trained retrieval models graded above 98% on internal evaluations; a from-scratch translation of a foundational classical epic, rendered at press quality. | Two proofs, one slide. Percentages only. |
| 12 | The flywheel | A global in-market product funds and proves the stack; the sovereign system is where the stack becomes a category. One engineering effort, two doors. | Mirror of Pocket deck slide 11, drawn from the other side. |
| 13 | The ask | What we are raising and what it buys: hardware reference designs, community pilots, the model and memory roadmap. | Numbers as placeholders for the founders. |
Design directions for the agency
Where the Pocket deck is lively, this one is still. Long fades, large type, one idea per slide. Danish-modern warmth: oak, candlelight, warm white on near-black.
Use the folio's own typography for any quoted text — two-column spread imagery from the reader is the hero asset of slides 4 and 10.
No server racks, no circuit-board clichés, no blue glow. The visual language of this deck is domestic: rooms, lamps, shelves, tables.