Your memories. On hardware you own.
Your family’s own secretary. It remembers the way people do.
Software built and verified end to end. Station in development.
Everything is stored. Nothing is remembered.
Thirty thousand photos. Ten years of messages. A drawer of old drives. You keep all of it, and still cannot find the one thing you need — because storing was solved, and remembering never was.
Lifestyle imagery is AI-generated illustration.
Ask it what no assistant can answer.
ChatGPT has read the internet. Nolaka remembers your life — the booking, the policy, the note from the doctor — and answers from it, with the source attached.
Learn how it answers
Found in the booking confirmation you forgot you saved.
Found in the policy PDF, with the date.
Found in the note you typed in the waiting room.
Demo data, shown in the app that runs today. The service, the app and a hosted tier are built and verified end to end, not yet public. Today it searches the words in your files, notes and messages; finding a photo by what is in it is on the roadmap.
One web. Every thread.
Memory is not a pile of files; it is who was there, what happened, and what led to what. Nolaka is designed to keep those threads — person to person, event to event, person to event — and to follow them when you ask. This web is those threads, drawn.
A smart speaker keeps a short list of notes about you. Nolaka keeps the web.
Drag a node. Click one to read it.
Demo data. Relationship search is on the roadmap; today it matches words in your files.
Seven parts. One switch.
Built around a Raspberry Pi 5, a four-microphone array, a full-range speaker and a light ring — and a physical switch that cuts power to the microphones. Everything below is the planned V1, drawn to the manufacturers’ own CAD.
AI-rendered from our CAD. Not photographs.
Whose machine holds your life.
The question of the AI era is not how capable the model is. It is whose machine holds your life. A box in your living room, not an account in a data centre.
On a Station, originals stay home: only your question and a few retrieved passages ever leave. On the cloud tier they sit in an encrypted volume, isolated per user. Either way, one export lifts everything out.
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On a Station, originals stay home.
They will sit on your own SSD. On the cloud tier they sit in an encrypted volume, isolated per user, with nothing shared between accounts.
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Only retrieved snippets reach the model.
The model sees your question and the few passages needed to answer it. It never sees your library.
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Export everything, anytime.
One command produces a complete archive of everything. There is no lock-in to remove, because there is none to build.
Off means off.
On the back, one switch will cut power to the microphones. Red means nothing is listening — no software in the loop.
Start anywhere. End at home.
Begin on your phone with the hosted tier. When you want the archive under your own roof, one export moves everything onto a Station in your living room — once the Station ships.
See the drawings
Small. Quiet. Yours.
A 112 mm square, 185 mm tall. A matte shell over a knit wrap that goes all the way round. Nothing on the front but fabric.
Materials
Acoustic knit wraps the lower half on all four sides, so sound leaves and nothing else gets in the way. Above it, a matte shell.
Finishes
Charcoal, linen and midnight — concept finishes for the enclosure. V1 will ship in one.
Charcoal
Front, back and top
Front
- Fabric
- Acoustic knit wraps the lower half.
- Vents
- Airflow in and out, both sides.
Back
- Mute
- Will cut power to the microphones. Red means off.
- USB-C
- Power in. Nothing else out, by design.
- Button
- Pairing and reset. That is all.
Top
- Light ring
- Seven states specified, idle to muted.
- Microphones
- A four-microphone array under the top face.
Drawn before built.
Every part was modelled against the manufacturers’ own CAD and drawn to production tolerance before anything was ordered — 47 sheets, a 55-item bill of materials, and one cancelled print order when two dimensions turned out to be wrong.
47 sheets, A4. Everything a workshop needs.
Open the drawing set-
Sheet 03 — General arrangement
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Sheet 04 — Front elevation
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Sheet 07 — Section A–A
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Sheet 09 — Exploded assembly
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Sheet 13 — Cable routing
Production drawings, not renders. Chinese originals; dimensions in millimetres.
On paper, today.
112 × 112 × 185 mm
Shell size. The acoustic knit adds about 3 mm a side.
Source-cited
Verified end to end in English and Chinese.
Status
Industrial design complete. Not yet manufactured.
Every home will have one.
A private compute and memory centre in every household, as ordinary as the router or the fridge. One day your family’s memories will live there, the models will reason there, and nothing about your life will have to leave the house. The Station is our first step toward that home.
Straight answers.
Including the ones that are not flattering.
What actually exists right now?
Everything is written, tested and walked end to end on a real phone, but nothing is deployed. Station V1 is an engineering prototype: 47 drawings, a full bill of materials, not one unit built. Nothing is for sale.
Is every hardware image here a render?
Yes — there is nothing to photograph yet. The drawings come straight out of our own CAD; every other hardware image, the exploded view included, is AI-generated on that geometry.
Is it end-to-end encrypted?
No. Your volume is encrypted at rest and isolated per account, but we hold the keys — so we can technically read it.
Is my data used to train models?
We do not, and our providers’ terms say they do not. That is contractual protection, not something we can prove in code.
Can I get everything out, and what happens if I leave?
Yes. One command exports everything, walked end to end on a real account. Importing back waits on the Station. Delete the account and access is cut at once, with the instance marked for destruction. We cannot promise a deletion deadline until that process exists.
Will I need a Station to use Nolaka?
No. The hosted tier works with nothing plugged in. The Station is where originals go when you would rather hold them yourself.
How good is the search today?
Today it matches the words in filenames and document text, in English and Chinese. Semantic search and photo understanding — finding a picture by what is in it — are on the roadmap, not in the build.
Nothing is for sale yet. Leave your email and we will tell you first.
Four weeks from first commit.
My family’s memories live in thirty thousand photos across two phones, three laptops and a drawer of old hard drives. Cloud albums solved storing. Nothing solved remembering.
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Aug 6
First working iOS prototype. Speak, store a structured memory, ask, get sources back.
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Aug 14–21
Product constitution, then the cloud version built against it: one codebase for home and cloud, per-user containers, dedup upload, backup, one-command export. Retrieval passing real-cloud acceptance in English and Chinese.
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Aug 25–27
One print order called off before it was placed: two dimensions were wrong. The enclosure rebuilt against the manufacturers’ CAD, drawn and costed.
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Aug 28–Sep 4
The product site, with a complete rendered image set of the device and the production drawings themselves.
One person, with frontier models as the engineering team — me as product owner and reviewer.
Austin Zhang · Founder · Kuala Lumpur