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Intelligence by Macci
Offline AI on a USB. No cloud, no subscription, no spying.
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Offline AI on a USB. No cloud, no subscription, no spying.
6 followers
Meet EVA — the AI that lives on a USB drive. No Wi-Fi. No cloud. No subscription. No surveillance. 100% offline, air-gapped intelligence powered by a local LLM. Works on any Windows 10/11 PC — no internet required, ever. One payment of $149, yours forever. Your conversations never leave your device. Built for privacy-first users, attorneys, preppers, and anyone who refuses to let Big Tech own their data. Plug in. Power up. Think freely.
My name is Kyle Macci. I spent nearly two decades as a police officer and served in the military before building a successful law practice in Connecticut focused on criminal defense and protecting people's rights. I was a fighter by nature — trained, disciplined, and driven. I thought I had seen everything life could throw at a person.
I was wrong. A few years ago, I was diagnosed with a hereditary liver disease. Within a short time, my name was placed on a transplant list — and it would stay there for four years.
Four years.
What followed was the hardest chapter of my life — harder than anything I encountered in the military or on the streets as a police officer. The disease attacked my body relentlessly. Every single day brought nausea so severe I could barely keep anything down. I vomited blood regularly. My stomach bled internally, requiring blood infusions on a weekly basis just to keep me stable. The medications prescribed to manage my condition carried their own brutal side effects — fatigue so crushing that getting out of bed felt like climbing a mountain, mental fog, and physical deterioration that seemed to accelerate no matter what I did.
My law practice — something I had built with years of hard work, my military discipline, and my police officer's instinct for detail — had to be placed on hold. The courtrooms, the clients, the cases I cared deeply about — all of it paused while I fought for my life from a bed.
Most days, all I could do was lie there. Watch television. And open my laptop.Here is what I learned about myself in those four years: I cannot stop building things.
With a laptop and time that most people would have spent in despair, I taught myself to code in Python. I dove deep into artificial intelligence — not just how to use it, but how it actually works under the hood, how models are built, how they run, and how they can be made to run without an internet connection. I became deeply interested in digital privacy — the kind of privacy that most people don't realize they've already given away. I became a Monero enthusiast, drawn to the philosophy that your personal data and your personal conversations belong to you — not to a corporation, not to a server farm somewhere, and not to anyone monitoring network traffic.
I had lost almost everything. But somewhere between the blood infusions and the nausea and the weeks I couldn't leave my bedroom, an idea took shape.
What if someone built an AI assistant that lived entirely offline? One that required no internet connection, no account, no cloud server, and no company watching your every word? What if that assistant was so portable it could live on a USB drive — on your keychain — and travel with you anywhere in the world?
What if privacy wasn't a feature — but the entire point? I named her Eva — after my daughter.
EvaOffLink is the product that came out of the worst years of my life. It runs completely offline on a standard Windows computer. No installation required. No internet required. No subscription. No data collection. You plug in the drive, you click one button, and Eva is there — ready to assist you, answer your questions, and help you think — without a single byte of your conversation leaving your device.
It took weeks of trial and error. It took learning everything from scratch — file architecture, model compression formats called GGUFs (think of them as highly compressed versions of AI brains that can run on normal computers without expensive hardware), custom launcher software, and interface design. Every piece of it built by hand, tested, rebuilt, and tested again.
It is not a finished product in the sense that I am done improving it. I am never done improving it. That is the point. EvaOffLink is a living project — something I will keep refining, expanding, and strengthening for every person who carries it.Every major AI assistant you use today — ChatGPT, Google's Gemini, Amazon's Alexa — lives in the cloud. That means every question you ask, every document you analyze, every private thought you type into that chat window is transmitted to a server, processed by a company, and potentially stored, analyzed, or monetized.
Most people accept this without a second thought. I used to as well.
Four years on a transplant list changes your perspective on what you are willing to accept. When you have had your physical autonomy taken from you — when your own body becomes something you can no longer fully control — you develop a fierce appreciation for every other kind of freedom available to you.
Your words are yours. Your questions are yours. Your ideas are yours.
EvaOffLink keeps them that way.I received my liver transplant. I am healthy. I am back.
My law practice is running again. My mind is sharp. And the project I built from a hospital bed — the one that kept me sane during the darkest stretch of my life — is now ready for the world.
EvaOffLink is available today on a 1 terabyte USB drive in three tiers — Basic, Standard, and Pro — depending on how much capability you want to carry with you. It is plug and play. It requires nothing from you except a Windows computer and a USB port.
No internet. No account. No compromise.
Just Eva — on your keychain, wherever you go.
Four years ago, I was placed on a liver transplant list. I spent those years mostly in bed — blood infusions weekly, vomiting blood, unable to work my law practice.
I had been a police officer and served in the military before becoming a criminal defense attorney in Connecticut. I thought I'd seen everything. I was wrong.
What kept me sane was my laptop. With nothing but time, I taught myself Python, dove deep into AI, and became obsessed with one question: what if an AI assistant required no internet, no cloud, no subscription — and lived entirely on a USB drive?
I named her EVA — after my daughter.
EVA runs completely offline on any Windows 10/11 PC. Plug in the drive, click one button, and she's there. No install. No Wi-Fi. No data leaving your device. Ever. One payment of $149, yours forever.
I received my transplant. I'm healthy. I'm back. And this is the product I built from that hospital bed.
If you believe your conversations belong to you — not to a server farm — I'd love your support today. 🙏