A household appliance
The cloud, brought home.
Nexus is a small appliance that replaces the cloud with a machine of your own. Your family’s photos, documents, notes, and even your own AI assistant — all stored locally, on your shelf.
No subscription · No account with us · Works without internet
Good evening, Morgan household.
- Maya’s phone backed up — 214 new photos
- Paperless filed three documents under Taxes 2026
- Leo joined the household — that makes five
Setup
- Plug it in
- Open nexus-setup.local
- Invite the household
— from the box to a working household in one evening.
Apps
What’s inside.
Every app on Nexus works like the websites you already know: open it in the browser on your phone, your laptop, or the family PC, and sign in. The difference is where it runs — on the appliance in your house. Each member has their own sign-in, and photos, documents, and notes can be shared with the rest of the household without ever leaving the house.
Privacy
Three things leave the house.
“The cloud” is a friendly name for other people’s computers. Photos saved “in the cloud” sit on machines a company owns, in a building you will never see, under rules you did not write. Many cloud services are free because the company collects information about you — what you save, what you search, what you click — and sells it to other companies. That is what pays for the machines.
Nexus does nothing like that. The machine is yours, it stands in your house, and all of your information is stored on it — no company, not even us, has access to it. Here is everything that leaves:
Renewing its address
Once in a while Nexus proves it owns your web address, so browsers keep trusting it. What’s sent: the address. Nothing else.
Checking for updates
“Is there a new version?” A download happens only when you approve it.
Whatever the household allows
Link an outside AI or calendar, let the assistant search the web, or give an app internet access — those requests go out. Stop allowing one, and its requests stop immediately.
Everything else stays home.
Your photos, documents, and notes never leave unless you decide they should: if you choose to keep a backup copy outside the house, that copy will be locked so only your household can open it.
Questions
Straight answers.
Does it need a subscription?
No. You buy the appliance once — no subscription, no account with us, no per-member fee. Sign-in, apps, and data all stay on the appliance, so it doesn’t need us day to day. Even if Teknios disappeared tomorrow, the house would keep running.
Do I need to be technical?
No. Everything an admin does happens in one dashboard: invite a member, install an app, approve an update. If you know what a NAS or Kubernetes is, you’ll never see either. If you don’t, you’ll never need to.
Do we all share one account?
No. Every member of the household gets their own sign-in, and it works across every app. Each person’s photos, documents, and notes stay their own — shared only when they choose to share them.
How do I open it on my phone or computer?
In a web browser, the same way you open any website. Your household gets its own web address, and every app has its own address under it. Any device on your home network can open it — the browser needs nothing installed. If you want, the photo app also offers a phone app, so the photos on your phone back up automatically while you are at home.
How is it different from SharePoint, Google Drive, or iCloud?
Using the apps on your own devices will be very similar to using other apps you already know — you open them like any website. The difference is where your files are. Those services keep them on the company’s computers, under the company’s rules. Nexus keeps them on your own appliance, in your house, where no company — including us — can see them. And there is no monthly fee.
Does it block ads and tracking?
Yes, for the whole house. When any device in the house looks up an internet address, Nexus checks it against a list of known ad and tracking servers and refuses the bad ones — phones, laptops, TVs, all of them, with nothing to install on any device. The same filter makes tracking visible: a TV or a smart gadget that quietly sends data to its maker shows up on the dashboard. Some ads are built into the page itself and still get through — this reduces ads and tracking, it does not erase them.
How big is it, and what does it need?
It is a small device that fits on a bookshelf. It needs two things from your house: a power outlet and a network cable to your internet router. There is no screen and no keyboard — you use it from your own phones and computers.
What if we move, or change internet companies?
Nothing changes for Nexus. Everything your household stores is inside the device, so moving is: unplug it, pack it, plug it in at the new house. It works with any home internet connection and needs nothing special from the internet company — no fixed address, no settings to ask for. And day to day it does not need the internet at all: your photos, documents, and notes are served from inside the house.
What if it breaks?
Nexus is an appliance, and any appliance can fail — so it is designed around its backup. It will keep a locked backup copy of everything the household stores, in a place you choose: a disk in your house, or somewhere outside it. If the device breaks, you will restore a replacement from the backup — members, apps, photos, everything. Like setting up a new phone from the old one’s backup.
What does it cost?
You pay once, for the appliance. We’ll announce the price when the first batch is ready — and communicate it to the waitlist first.
The first batch
Be first in line.
We’re building the first batch of appliances now. Join and you’ll hear first — when it’s ready, what it costs, and nothing else.
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