About Blacknode
The company behind Eidolon Home AI.
Our story
Blacknode Ltd was founded with a single conviction: artificial intelligence should run on your hardware, under your control, with your data staying exactly where it belongs.
Eidolon Home AI started as an experiment with local language models in early 2025. What began as a simple chat interface quickly grew into a complete ecosystem: multiple AI personalities with persistent memory, computer vision, voice interaction, image generation, video creation, music production, medical AI, and a 20-billion parameter reasoning engine — all running locally, all private, all yours.
In December 2025, we launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund the project. The response exceeded every expectation: 245 backers pledged over €43,000 — more than 4,300% of our original goal. That support confirmed what we already believed: people want AI that respects their privacy and doesn’t require a monthly subscription.
Today, Eidolon Home AI is a modular platform with over 14 modules, supporting both NVIDIA and AMD GPUs, available worldwide.
If you want AI that runs on your machine, not someone else’s server, you’re in the right place.
Massimo Zito
Founder & Developer
Built by a developer. For everyone.
Massimo Zito is a developer since 1981, former Oracle DBA, and science communicator. Editor of Reccom Magazine (reccom.org) since 2017, an Italian science and technology publication reaching approximately 150,000 monthly readers.
Every module in the Eidolon ecosystem is designed, built, tested, and supported directly by Massimo. No outsourced development, no anonymous team — one developer who stands behind every line of code.
No cloud. No telemetry. No compromises.
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249
Kickstarter backers
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4326%
Funded on Kickstarter
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16+
AI modules available
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100%
Local — no cloud
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What we believe
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Privacy is not optional
Your data belongs to you. AI should process your information on your machine, not on someone else’s server. We don’t collect telemetry, we don’t track usage, we don’t know what you do with the software. |
Ownership over subscriptions
We sell software, not access. When you buy an Eidolon module, you own it. No monthly fees, no API quotas, no service that can be shut down. The AI runs on your hardware and it’s yours to keep. |
Transparency
One developer, one product, direct support. No corporate layers, no outsourced helpdesk. When you email support, you’re talking to the person who wrote the code. |
