Everything after the purchase

Out of the box to first answer. Your Vault arrives sealed and ready — no network, no account, no activation step.

• ◆Unbox, connect power and a display (or use the built-in panel on portable configurations)
• ◆First boot runs a self-check and opens straight into the assistant
• ◆Set your household display name and preferred font size — stored on-device only
• ◆Ask your first question; the full library is already indexed

Let phones, tablets, and laptops in the house talk to the Vault over its own local hotspot — without the Vault itself touching the internet.

• ◆Enable Local Hotspot in Settings → Connections; the Vault broadcasts its own network
• ◆Join that network from any device and open the printed local address
• ◆Everything stays inside your walls: the hotspot has no upstream route by design
• ◆Set a hotspot passphrase if guests are ever in range

Pair handheld mesh nodes for texting, location, and short AI queries across your property.

• ◆Charge each node fully before first pairing
• ◆Pair nodes one at a time from Settings → Mesh on the Vault
• ◆Name nodes by person or building — 'Barn', 'Gate', 'Dad'
• ◆Walk the property to test coverage; add a relay node where messages drop

Refresh the knowledge library from physical media — the device itself never needs a connection.

• ◆Updates arrive on a sealed, checksummed drive through the Library Update Service
• ◆Insert the drive; the Vault verifies the signature before touching anything
• ◆Apply the update and the old snapshot is kept until the new one verifies clean
• ◆Your own indexed documents are never modified by a library update

Printers, external drives, keyboards, and the optional network card.

• ◆USB keyboards, mice, and drives work on all tiers, no drivers to hunt down
• ◆Local printing works over USB for reference pages and checklists
• ◆The optional network card ships uninstalled; the slot is user-accessible
• ◆Storage upgrades are user-serviceable on every tier