AskGaius: offline AI on a flash drive. Join the waitlist.

The problem

Every question you have ever asked an AI has left your computer.

It went to a data centre owned by a company you have no relationship with. It was processed on hardware you will never see. And you were told it was fine.

So you edit yourself.

You take out the name and the numbers before you paste it in.
You do not ask the question you actually wanted to ask.
You keep the interesting work out of the box entirely.

Which means the tool is least useful exactly when it matters most.

Cloud AI today

Your question leaves

It crosses the internet to hardware you will never see. What happens to it after that is not up to you.

With the drive

Your question stays

The model is on the drive. The answer is worked out on your own machine, so nothing has to be sent anywhere for it to arrive.

And once it has left your machine, it is out of your hands. You cannot see where it is kept, who can read it, or what it gets used for next.

What this actually is

A full AI language model on a flash drive that answers with the internet off.

You plug it into your computer. It runs on the power of that computer and nothing else. Turn off the internet connection and it carries on answering, because it was never depending on the connection in the first place.

The AskGaius drive on a keyring beside a hand, showing how small it is

A hand, for scale. That is the entire product.

What that means in practice

Nothing to install and nothing to set up. You plug it in and ask.
It runs on a low spec computer, across operating systems.
The model lives on the drive, so the drive goes on your keyring and into the next computer.

Your questions and your history live on the drive, not in an account somewhere else.
It shows you its reasoning on screen while it works, so quality is something you inspect rather than something we assert.
There is a prompt trainer built in, so you get better at asking as you use it.
The name carries the promise. G.A.I.U.S. stands for Green, Accessible, Individualised, Universal, Secure.

And it runs on nothing but the power of the computer it is plugged into, at a time when data centres have been reported as using 6% of the electricity supply in the UK and US.

The people behind it

The person who built AskGaius has an Alan Turing Institute funded PhD. Meet the team behind AskGaius.

Dr Andrew Burnie

CEO and inventor

PhD in Computer Science at UCL, funded by The Alan Turing Institute. He invented the drive, and he is the one in the video.

Professor James Burnie

Chair, MBA

He is an experienced entrepreneur, having been involved in business for over 20 years.

James Burnie

Legal

One of Financier Worldwide’s five 2026 Power Players in FinTech.

Engineered in the UK.

The three of us co-authored the July 2026 commentary "Pick Your AI Apocalypse" in The Hedge Fund Journal, under our own bylines. The argument for the drive is one we have already made in public, in print, where it can be checked.

What people using it say

From the people using it, in their words.

"I have thoroughly enjoyed trialling the beta version of Ask Gaius. It is incredibly useful and interesting to see in real time the logic the tool uses while it generates its answer, and the answers are clearly and succinctly presented."

Nicky Androsov, Partner, UK law firm

"As a Chartered Accountancy firm, client data protection is vital. AI has presented a great deal of opportunities, many of which we can not make the most of without sharing confidential information. AskGaius is a solution which is enabling us to keep client data safe, whilst accessing the powers of AI which gathers the knowledge from trusted sources. I'm excited to see what is coming next in its development."

Glyn Jelley, Managing Director, Summit Chartered Accountants

Join the waitlist

Nothing is sold today. This is how you join the list.

The waitlist

Two fields, and you’re on the list.

You get the founder price when a batch opens, and whatever you ask for goes on the roadmap.

You're on the list.

Your interest is registered. You'll hear from me as the build progresses, and you'll be notified when drives become available.

Your AI history is your personal data and your identity. So keep it yours, not on somebody else's server.