Built for people who actually care where their data lives

Trust & Security

BU1ST was built on one principle: Your data belongs to you — not the cloud. Every system we ship is offline-first, locally controlled and designed so you can see, audit and shut down everything it does.

Zero Cloud Dependency On-Device Intelligence No Silent Data Harvesting

If a solution can’t run on your own hardware, it doesn’t pass the BU1ST trust test.

Trust model
Sovereign AI = Zero Cloud Dependency

Unlike most AI platforms that quietly send everything to remote servers, BU1ST systems are designed to run entirely on hardware you own: laptops, desktops, edge devices or private servers.

That means:

  • No data extraction or training in someone else’s model.
  • No corporate tracking, profiling or behaviour logging.
  • No hidden dependencies on third-party APIs.
  • No cloud storage by default — backups stay under your control.

Whether it’s a quoting engine, cleaning network, reader platform or city dashboard, your BU1ST deployment is a self-contained system, not a thin client for a cloud you can’t see.

What “offline-first” actually means

Every BU1ST build is tested with the internet cable unplugged. If the core workflow breaks, we fix it — we don’t route around it with cloud calls.

  • Primary logic on-device or on your local server.
  • Optional sync, never mandatory.
  • All critical functions remain available in offline mode.
Security pillars
How BU1ST protects people, teams and data
Pillar 01
On-Device Intelligence

All processing — chat, pricing logic, image recognition, narrative engines and knowledge lookup — happens locally. Even enterprise builds like Reader AI or Starshine HQ run on private servers controlled by the client, not a shared cloud environment.

Pillar 02
Encryption & Isolation

BU1ST systems isolate user data inside secure containers and local databases. Deployments can separate tenants, teams or projects so information never crosses boundaries without explicit design.

  • Local SQLite or encrypted DBs per deployment.
  • Optional container separation per user or client.
  • No shared knowledge state unless you request it.
Pillar 03
No Third-Party Requests

99% of AI tools secretly rely on external APIs. BU1ST does not. Your deployment talks to your hardware and nothing else — no silent calls to foundation models, analytics platforms or tracking pixels.

When outside services are ever required, they are declared up front and can be disabled at the infrastructure level.

In practice
What this looks like day to day
For small teams & operators

Your quoting app, AI assistant or job board runs on a local machine or mini-server in the office.

  • No subscription log-ins just to access your own tools.
  • Backups you can see and copy yourself.
  • Systems keep working even when the internet doesn’t.
For enterprises & councils

Multi-user deployments sit inside your own environment. BU1ST integrates with your existing identity, network and audit policies without shipping data out.

  • Private servers in your chosen data centre or on-prem.
  • Clear diagrams of all data flows and logs.
  • Scoped access for departments, crews and external partners.
For high-security & critical sites

For defence, critical infrastructure or environments that cannot risk data leakage, we deploy hardened builds such as Tadow Sovereign™.

  • Locked-down networks with no outbound AI calls.
  • Physical and logical separation for sensitive workloads.
  • Full ability to pause, inspect or decommission the system.

The BU1ST Guarantee: Your data stays with you. Your AI runs on your hardware. Every action is under your command. No cloud, no backdoors, no harvesting.

If you need a security review or want to understand how a Sovereign AI deployment would work inside your organisation, we’ll walk you through it in plain language.

Talk to us about security