Intelligence you can hold.

Elah is building a personal AI that lives with you, not in a data center. Private by design. Yours from the first word.

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In stealth.
Arriving soon.

Meet Samantha.

The AI that lives inside Node, in under a minute.

Concept film. Interface prototype with scripted responses.

Today, the smartest machines on earth live in someone else's building.

You rent them by the word.

They forget you when the tab closes.

Elah is building the other kind.

Small enough for your desk. Yours from the first word.

A day with Node.

Six moments where cloud AI hits a wall, and Node keeps going.

Cloud AI

Node

Cloud AI walls hit1

Done on Node1

Extra cost on Node$0

Data sent out by NodeNone

Scenes show what Node is being built to do.

Not another subscription.

Cloud AINode
Where it livesSomeone else's data centerOn your desk
Your dataSent away, under their policiesStays on your device
How you payPer word, per month, with limitsOnce. No meter.
MemoryStarts over, or remembers a littleLearns you, and keeps learning
When the internet dropsIt stopsIt keeps working

Made for people who make things.

Creators

Talk through an idea and watch it become images, video and 3D, with you directing every step.

Your style stays yours. It never trains anyone else's model.

Builders

Projects too large for a chat window. Node holds the whole thing in mind and works on it offline.

Your code never leaves the room.

Business owners

A team of AI helpers that handle the busywork in the background while you run the business.

Your numbers stay in your office.

Go further.

The first Nodes go to a small group.

Buyers, businesses and investors: tell us who you are and you'll hear from us first.

Meet Node.

Node is the device. Inside it lives an AI that knows your work, your voice and your ideas, and keeps them to itself.

It's yours

It runs on a device in your home or office. Your conversations, files and memories stay there.

It never runs out

No tokens, no credits, no meter. Use it all day. It doesn't charge you by the word.

It meets you halfway

It speaks up when it has something worth saying, and makes images, video and 3D with you, not just for you.

Talk

Speak to it like a person. It answers out loud, follows the thread, and picks up where you left off yesterday.

Remember

It remembers what matters to you, and you can see and edit everything it knows.

Create

Images, video and 3D from a conversation. You stay in the director's chair.

Work

Hand off the busywork. A small team of AI helpers runs it in the background and reports back.

For teams

A private AI for your office, on hardware you own. We're opening a small number of business pilots.Interested? Choose "A business" on the early-access form.

And every night, it gets a little better at being yours.

Puzzle · Level 2

The Meter.

Every word you send to the cloud is metered. This video is too.

  • The dot isn't counting. It's talking.
  • The last word you found still matters.
  • Use any AI you like. You will still need to think.

The first person to crack it wins. Send us the word, and how you found it.

Level 1 ran on LinkedIn. Building something? The hiring side quest is on Careers.

Download the video to study it frame by frame.

The next computer won't think like a computer.

We're hiring a founding System Architecture Engineer to help build it. Small team. Giant problem.

PhotonicsNeuromorphicAI/ML
  • Remote
  • Founding equity
  • US company

What you'll do

  • Own the architecture of Elah's hardware, from first prototype to production
  • Decide what we build, what we buy, and what we license
  • Turn early research into designs a factory can make
  • Hire the team that comes after you

You might be right for this if

  • You've taken a chip, accelerator or embedded system from design to silicon
  • You care about energy per answer, not just speed
  • You'd rather build something new than tune something old
  • You looked at the side quest and wanted to trace it
  1. Take the side quest, if you like. It's optional.
  2. Send us the word and the why, or a link to your work.
  3. Talk with the founders.
Hiring side quest

The next step.

The network spells one word. Time is the value.

Optional, for the people we want to build with. Just curious? Ask an AI to crack it and learn something fun. Know why the answer is right? Send us the word and the why.

Elah recruiting poster: a network of timed spiking nodes marked with first-arrival, last-arrival and second-arrival symbols, a hex string in the corner, and a stepped waveform in the side-quest card.
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Be first.

The first Nodes go to a small group. Tell us who you are and we'll be in touch before anyone else hears.

Businesses can ask about a private pilot. Investors can talk to the founders directly.