Coming to Kickstarter · 256 GB Offline AI Survival Drive
A 256 GB plug-and-play drive that ships fully loaded — offline AI, Wikipedia, offline maps, 380+ survival books and field manuals, and more. The complete emergency preparedness tool for when the grid goes down. Plug in. Double-click. You're ready. No internet ever required.
$69 Founder Price · Save $30 · List Price $99
The Problem
When it matters most — a wildfire, a hurricane, a backcountry injury — your phone's AI assistant fails you. Every cloud-based tool requires the one thing you don't have: internet access.
Hurricanes, earthquakes, and floods knock out cell towers and power for days. The people who need guidance most are left without it.
Backcountry hikers, hunters, and campers are miles from the nearest signal. A medical emergency or navigation crisis has no Google to call.
Long-duration power outages make every cloud-dependent device useless within hours. Preparedness depends on tools that don't.
Cyberattacks, grid disruptions, and infrastructure failures can cut entire regions off from digital services without warning.
The Solution
Trove ships as a fully loaded 256 GB drive — AI model, offline Wikipedia, offline maps, first aid tools, and 380+ survival books and field manuals. Plug it in and you're ready. No setup. No internet. No subscription. Ever.
How It Works
Trove is built for non-technical users. If you can plug in a drive and double-click a file, you can use Trove.
Insert the Trove Drive into any Windows, macOS, or Linux computer with at least 8 GB of RAM. Everything is already on the drive.
Double-click the launcher file. Trove starts automatically and opens the full interface in your browser. No installation. No account to configure.
Chat with the AI, browse the offline library, view maps, run the first aid tree, track supplies, or read field manuals — all on-device, all offline.
The Trove drive ships with the AI model, knowledge base, Wikipedia, and offline maps already installed. No first-run internet download. No setup. Plug in and go — even if you never have internet again.
Features
Every tool in Trove is designed around a single question: is it useful when everything else fails?
Trove requires zero internet at any point. The AI model, knowledge base, maps, and interface all run entirely on your device. Pre-loaded. No Wi-Fi. No cell service. No cloud.
Air-gapped readyA 4-billion parameter language model runs locally, guided by a curated RAG knowledge base. Answers are grounded in real reference material — not just training data.
RAG knowledge baseFull Americas coverage built into the drive using vector map tiles. Drop pins, add notes, and track locations — all without GPS or a network connection.
Americas coverageAn interactive symptom-guided first aid assistant walks you step-by-step through triage and treatment decisions. Designed for non-medical users under stress.
Interactive triageA searchable database of emergency radio frequencies and a built-in Morse code encoder/decoder. Critical when phones are dead and radios are your only link.
1,000+ frequenciesStore sensitive documents, medical records, IDs, insurance info, and emergency contacts in a password-protected vault. Private. Encrypted. On-drive.
Zero-knowledge encryptionTrack your emergency supplies inventory with quantities, expiration dates, and locations. Know exactly what you have when you need to know it fast.
Inventory managementPython and Ollama are bundled on the 256 GB drive. Nothing is installed on the host machine. No trace left behind when you unplug. Works on any qualifying laptop.
Zero installNative launchers for Windows, macOS, and Linux. Works on machines as old as 2015. 8 GB RAM is the only hard requirement — no GPU needed.
Windows · macOS · LinuxWhat's on the Drive
The Trove drive ships completely pre-loaded. Every category of content is indexed and ready the moment you plug in. No downloads. No setup. This is what 256 GB of preparedness looks like.
Full English Wikipedia — millions of articles covering medicine, science, history, and technology — available the moment the internet is gone.
Full vector map coverage of the Americas — zoomable, pin-able, searchable. Works completely without GPS or cell service.
Over 380 hand-curated survival books, guides, and field manuals — from water purification to field surgery to nuclear preparedness — chunked and indexed for AI search.
A 4-billion parameter quantized language model running via Ollama — fully on-device, no GPU needed. Responds in seconds on hardware from 2015.
What You Can Ask
Trove is built on 380+ survival books and field manuals and a RAG knowledge base. It keeps answers practical and actionable — written for someone under stress, not in a classroom.
How do I purify water without a filter?
WaterWhat are the signs of a concussion?
First AidHow do I build an emergency shelter?
ShelterWhat should be in a 72-hour go bag?
PrepHow do I start a fire without matches?
FireHow do I fix a generator that won't start?
RepairHow do I treat hypothermia in the field?
First AidWhich plants are safe to eat in the wild?
FoodWho It's For
Trove is for emergency preppers, off-grid households, backcountry hikers, and families building emergency kits — anyone who takes preparedness seriously, whether you're packing a go bag or heading into the wilderness.
Offline maps, survival guidance, and field manuals — miles from the nearest signal. Trove runs on your laptop without any network.
256 GB of offline knowledge is your most durable prep asset. Encyclopedia, field manuals, maps, medical references — all in your bag.
Keep one in your emergency kit at home. When the power goes out and cell towers are down, your family still has access to expert guidance.
Field reference in austere environments. Survival field manuals, offline maps, and an interactive first aid tree — for responders operating in disaster zones with no connectivity.
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Technical Details
Trove is built on open, portable technology. No vendor lock-in. No subscriptions. No proprietary runtimes that stop working when a company disappears.
Microsoft's Phi3.5 — a 4-billion parameter language model running locally via Ollamalocalhost:11434FAQ
Yes — Trove ships pre-loaded and works with zero network access from the very first use. The AI model, knowledge base, Wikipedia, offline maps, and the full interface are already on the drive when it arrives.
There is no first-run internet download. No setup step. Plug in, double-click, and you're ready — even if you never have internet again.
The drive ships loaded with: full English Wikipedia offline (~90 GB), offline Americas maps, 380+ hand-curated survival books and field manuals, a 4-billion parameter AI model, and all the tools (first aid tree, comms database, supplies tracker, encrypted vault).
Remaining free space is yours to use for the encrypted vault or additional documents you add yourself.
No. Python and Ollama are bundled directly on the USB drive. Nothing is installed on the host machine, and no trace is left behind when you unplug.
You just need a laptop or desktop with Windows 10+, macOS 12+, or a modern Linux distribution, plus 8 GB of RAM.
Trove includes full vector map tiles covering the Americas, stored on the drive and rendered locally via Leaflet. You can pan, zoom, drop pins, add notes, and search locations — all without GPS or a network connection.
It's not a GPS tracker — it's an offline reference map. Pair it with a compass for field navigation.
Trove uses Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) — it searches a curated survival knowledge base first, then uses that as context for its answers. This grounds responses in real reference material rather than pure model training.
That said, AI is a tool to assist decision-making, not replace judgment. Cross-reference critical information and use Trove as a knowledgeable field companion, not a final authority.
Yes. Drop any .txt files into the knowledge/raw/ directory and rebuild the knowledge base index. Trove will chunk, embed, and index your documents automatically.
You can also store sensitive files (medical records, IDs, emergency contacts) in the encrypted vault, protected by your own password.
Trove is designed for machines as old as 2015. The primary requirement is 8 GB of RAM — the 4-billion parameter model runs on CPU without needing a GPU. A faster processor produces faster responses, but older hardware works.
None. Trove has no telemetry, no analytics, no network calls at runtime. Conversations are held in browser memory only and are never written to disk. The encrypted vault is protected by your password — not ours.
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