Local-first AI · Coming to Kickstarter

Presence.

Private. Persistent. Present.

Most AI tools live in the cloud. Presence lives and acts on your computer — and it stays there. A companion that remembers, an assistant that creates, an agent that works. All running on your own machine, fully offline.

From the makers of Eidolon Home AI — funded 4326% · 258 backers
The campaign film

See Presence in motion.

Two minutes on what it means to keep an AI that lives, remembers, and works — entirely on your own machine.

Presence campaign film — click to play

Real interface. Real local generation. No cloud rendering.Everything you see runs on consumer hardware — nothing leaves the machine.

The idea

Your AI shouldn't disappear when you close the tab. It should stay — on your machine, in your home, on your terms.

Presence is the next step beyond chat. It keeps a persistent memory across sessions, sees and reacts to its environment, and puts real working agents — coding, image, video and music — under one roof. No subscription. No cloud. No data leaving your computer.

What it feels like

Not benchmarks. Not tokens per second. Continuity.

Presence is built around the experience of something that is simply there — aware, patient, and picking up where you left off.

01 / RETURN
"You're back. I kept track of what you left open."

Step away and come back. Presence notices, remembers the thread, and greets you — no re-explaining required.

02 / AWARENESS
"The light's still on in the studio. It's getting late."

With Ambient Awareness on, Presence perceives its surroundings through the webcam and reacts in its own voice — entirely on-device.

03 / WORK
"Here's the function, refactored — and a quick render of the idea."

From conversation to creation: code, images, video and music, generated locally by purpose-built agents.

The system

One companion. A suite of working agents.

Presence is modular. Start with the companion, grow into a full local creative, engineering and research workstation.

Iris — The Companion

Presence Environment CompanionPersistent memory · voice · vision · ambient awareness

The heart of Presence: a conversational companion with a dual-model architecture and a Guardian validator. It remembers across sessions, talks and listens, and — when you allow it — perceives and responds to your environment.

  • Persistent cross-session memory
  • Bidirectional voice interaction
  • Identity profiles you can shape
  • Optional ambient presence detection
Presence Studio — Image

Generative Creative SuiteLocal image generation, directed and critiqued

A local image studio where the AI doesn't just generate — it directs the prompt, critiques the result, and refines it in a loop. Real diversified scoring, entirely on your GPU, no cloud render farm.

  • Generate → critique → refine loop
  • Semantic prompt director
  • Gallery with seed lock workflow
  • 100% on-device rendering
Code Studio — Engineering

Presence Coding AgentGuardian / PIF workflow · sandboxed

An autonomous coding agent built around a Guardian validator and a negative-constraint system, with a sandbox and live debug console. It analyses, generates, debugs and optimises — under your supervision.

  • Plan-Implement-Fix workflow
  • Guardian output validation
  • Generated-files preview & export
  • Optional bring-your-own-key cloud models
Director Studios — Motion & Sound

Video & MusicLocal clip and audio generation

Bring ideas to motion and sound. The Director Studios turn your direction into short video clips and original music, generated locally and orchestrated through the same companion you already talk to.

  • Director Studio · Video
  • Director Studio · Music
  • Guided, conversational direction
  • No upload, no streaming render
Research & Intelligence — Analysis

The Research & Intelligence AgentContinuous monitoring · source correlation · open public feeds

An agent that works for you — not for advertisers. Configure the topics you want to follow, define your own sources, and let Presence read and correlate them continuously in the background. Each morning it hands you what actually developed, ranked by relevance instead of by what drives engagement. It spots when a story shifts framing, builds contextual timelines, and keeps a persistent memory of every topic — so it never starts from zero.

A specialized single-stack model, optimised for rapid reading of large volumes of text — the agent that defines Presence High.

  • Personal, continuous topic monitoring
  • Relevance-ranked daily briefings
  • Pattern & framing-shift detection
  • Contextual timelines with persistent memory
  • Aggregated open public webcams, indexed by area
  • Your sources, in any language — read for you
Ambient awareness · privacy

Aware of your world. Owned by you.

Ambient Awareness is Presence's most distinctive sense — the ability to perceive its surroundings and react on its own. It's also the feature we treat with the most care.

Everything happens on your machine. Frames are processed locally and never leave your computer. The camera is off by default, the indicator is always visible, and the sampling interval is yours to set — or to switch off entirely.

  • [ off ]
    Off by default. Ambient Awareness only runs when you turn it on, with an explicit, unmistakable toggle.
  • [ local ]
    100% on-device. No frame, no audio, no conversation is ever uploaded. Nothing leaves your computer.
  • [ seen ]
    Always visible. A live indicator shows whenever the camera is active. No silent watching.
  • [ yours ]
    One-time purchase. You own your copy. No subscription, no telemetry, no account required.
Editions

Three editions. One philosophy.

From an ambient companion that runs on a modest machine, to a full local AI workstation. Pick the edition that matches your hardware and your ambitions.

Early Bird pricing is limited and available only during the Kickstarter campaign · Windows · Linux · macOS (Apple Silicon)

Presence Light
The ambient AI companion for everyday machines.
EARLY BIRD · 60 spots
49
Standard €69 after Early Bird
  • Iris companion + persistent memory
  • Voice & vision interaction
  • Base creative assistant
  • Lightweight web research
  • Identity profiles
  • Dual-model architecture + Guardian
  • 16 GB RAM / 8 GB VRAM
Choose Light
Presence Middle
Companion plus the creative & coding studios.
EARLY BIRD · 30 spots
99
Standard €129 after Early Bird
  • Everything in Light
  • Presence coding agent
  • Generative image suite
  • Director Studio · Video
  • Director Studio · Music
  • 32 GB RAM + modern consumer GPU
Choose Middle
Presence High
The complete local AI workstation.
EARLY BIRD · 15 spots
199
Standard €249 after Early Bird
  • Everything in Middle
  • Full Ambient Awareness
  • All available agents
  • Advanced generative suite
  • Future add-ons during the campaign cycle
  • High-performance local workstation
Choose High

Original Eidolon backer? Welcome back.

The 258 backers of the first Eidolon Home AI campaign get reserved Eidolon Alumni tiers — every edition at a thank-you price, with exclusive Alumni recognition. Secret rewards, surfaced for you automatically on Kickstarter.

EIDOLON ALUMNI · from €39
4326%
First campaign funded
258
Founding backers
100%
Local · offline
3 OS
Win · Linux · macOS
Coming to Kickstarter

Bring AI home.

Follow the campaign and be the first to know when Presence goes live. Early Bird tiers are strictly limited.

Estimated delivery · November 2026 — Digital reward, no shipping