AI BlackBox Flight Recorder

Your AI. Your box. Your rules.

One little machine that runs every AI worth using — chat, images, video, music, and voice — and actually remembers you. Buy it once, own it forever. No subscriptions. No cloud landlord looking over your shoulder.

9 AI providers, one box
$4,372 saved over 3 years
100% yours to keep
Hey — what are we making today?
A cinematic video of a dragon flying over the mountains
On it. Rendering with Veo 3.1… done. Want some epic music under it?

The subscription treadmill

You're paying every month for tools you'll never actually own

Renting (the usual way)

Forever
  • ChatGPT Plus$20/mo
  • Midjourney$30/mo
  • Runway / Video AI$95/mo
  • ElevenLabs$22/mo
  • Claude Pro$20/mo
3-Year Total $6,732
What you own after Nothing

Owning (the BlackBox)

Once
  • The box (one-time)$2,000
  • Your own API keys~$10/mo
  • Text, image, videoIncluded
  • Music, voice, analysisIncluded
  • A memory that never forgetsIncluded
3-Year Total $2,360
What you own after All of it

That's $4,372 back in your pocket over 3 years — and the box pays for itself in about a year.

Everything in one box

Nine AI providers, every kind of media, and a memory that sticks. No tab-juggling, no logins, no monthly bills.

9 AI providers

Hop between the best models whenever you want — Google Gemini, OpenAI, Anthropic Claude, xAI Grok, and five more. One box, all of them.

Google OpenAI Anthropic xAI +5 more

Make images

Describe what's in your head and watch it show up. Real image generation with Google Imagen, built right in.

Make videos

Go from a sentence to a cinematic scene with Veo 3.1. Yes, it's as fun as it sounds.

Make music

Original tracks on demand with Google Lyria and full songs with ElevenLabs — epic orchestral to chill electronic.

Just talk to it

Speak instead of type, and it talks back in any of 70+ premium voices. Great for narration, characters, or hands-free.

A memory that sticks

Every conversation is saved and searchable. Your AI remembers your projects, your preferences, and what you said three months ago.

2,000+ snapshots and counting

Text & call it

Add the cellular gateway and your AI gets a real phone number — it answers your texts and picks up calls. See how →

Lives in your Google

It reads and writes your Docs, Sheets, Slides, Drive, Gmail, and Calendar. See how →

The thing nobody else has

A memory that compounds

Most AI forgets you the second you close the tab. The BlackBox keeps an immutable flight recorder of everything — so your AI actually gets smarter the longer you use it.

"Everyone else is building a text buffer. We're building a time machine."

Immutable Flight Recorder

An append-only ledger you can't accidentally lose or quietly rewrite

2,000+ Snapshots
100% Yours
Semantic Search
Find anything by what you meant, not the exact words you used
Checkpoints
Tidy summaries roll up automatically so long histories stay fast
Multi-Agent
Every tool and model shares the same brain
Instant Recall
Pulls the right memory back in a blink

Why it beats the usual "AI memory"

The usual approach

  • Memory is a throwaway buffer
  • Loose chunks in a database
  • No sense of when things happened
  • Forgets how you got there
  • Lives on someone else's server
  • Same answers, no growth

The BlackBox way

  • Memory is a permanent, tamper-proof record
  • Timestamped snapshots in an immutable ledger
  • Keeps the full story, in order
  • Remembers the problem and the fix
  • Lives on your hardware, full stop
  • Gets smarter the more you use it

Nothing gets lost

Every snapshot is append-only and verified. Nothing is ever quietly deleted or changed — your AI's history is a permanent record you can trust.

Search by meaning

Ask "what did we figure out about the API?" and it finds the right moment — even if you never used those exact words.

Stays fast over time

Long conversations roll up into clean summaries automatically — so months of history never slow it down.

One shared brain

The web Portal, your phone, and every AI model all tap the same memory. Switch models all you want — the memory stays put.

Right answer, right time

It balances what's most relevant with what's most recent, so you get the answer that actually fits the moment.

It's on your hardware

Your memory lives on your device, not in someone's cloud. No data mining, no surprise lockouts. It's yours.

After a month, it knows your projects. After a year, you won't want to work without it.

Make it yours
Optional add-on

Give your AI a phone number

Snap on the TG200 cellular gateway, drop in a SIM, and your BlackBox can text and talk over a real cellular line — reachable from any phone on Earth, no app required.

Reads & answers your texts

Text your BlackBox like a friend. It reads your message, thinks it through with the full memory behind it, and texts you back.

Picks up the phone

Call your own number and your AI answers — in its own voice. Ask a question, get a real answer, hang up. Hands-free, anywhere.

Remembers every word

Texts and calls land in the same memory as everything else. Your AI picks up a phone thread right where you left off.

+$750 TG200 LTE gateway, set up and ready to go
Add cellular

Heads up: cellular handles text and voice calls. It's SMS + phone — not picture/MMS messaging.

It lives in your Google, too

Connect your Google account once and your AI can actually do the work — read, write, and edit across Workspace, not just talk about it.

Docs

Draft, rewrite, and format documents

Sheets

Build, fill, and crunch spreadsheets

Slides

Spin up whole decks from a prompt

Drive

Find, create, and organize files

Gmail

Read, search, draft, and send mail

Calendar

Check your schedule and book events

New — MCP tool server

Plug it into the apps you already use

The BlackBox speaks MCP, the open standard for AI tools. So the apps you already pay for can borrow its memory, its tools, and its whole creative studio. Keep the plan you love — let the BlackBox be the brain and the workshop behind it.

Your memory, everywhere

Every app you connect shares the same immutable memory. Search months of context from right inside your AI tool — and everything you do flows back into it.

One creative studio

Generate images, video, music, and voice from whatever app you're in. The BlackBox does the heavy lifting and the result lands in your memory automatically.

74 tools on tap

Memory search, Google Workspace, web search, media analysis, and dozens more show up as native tools your AI can just use — no copy-paste, no context-switching.

Bring your own subscription

Use the plan you already pay for. The BlackBox plugs in as your memory and orchestration server — not another monthly bill — and it answers only to you.

Works natively with
Claude Code Claude Desktop OpenAI Codex Google Antigravity + more

Connects privately over your own network with a key only you hold. Your memory never touches anyone else's cloud.

Pick your power

Two builds, same great software. Both ship with a 1TB NVMe drive and 32GB of RAM — the Ultra is the one you can grow into.

Standard

Minisforum MS-01 $2,000
  • CPUIntel Core i9-13900H · 14-core
  • Ships with1TB NVMe · 32GB DDR5
  • RAM ceilingUp to 64GB
  • NetworkingDual 10GbE + dual 2.5GbE
  • Expansion3× M.2, PCIe x16 slot
  • Best forEveryone — fast, quiet, plenty
Choose Standard

How it works

Plug in. Power on. Start talking.

1

Unbox it

A pre-configured Minisforum mini-PC (MS-01 or MS-02 Ultra) shows up ready to run. In the box: your machine, the power cable, a quick-start guide, and an encrypted Apricorn USB for one-click backups of your whole memory and keys.

2

Add your keys

Bring your own API keys from Google, OpenAI, Anthropic, and friends. You pay the providers directly at their normal rates — no middleman, no markup.

3

Start talking

Open the Portal in any browser and just ask. Need an image? Ask. A video? Ask. Music? Ask. The features show up as you need them — no manual required.

4

Build your memory

Every conversation becomes a searchable snapshot. After a month it knows your projects. After a year, it's the most useful tool on your desk.

See it in action

A full walkthrough — real productions, made start to finish on the BlackBox

Overview video dropping soon

We're putting the finishing touches on a full walkthrough. Check back shortly.

Apps built on the BlackBox

Real products running on the same tech that's inside your box

Whisper Everywhere

A universal audio layer for Android

A floating bubble that works in any app. Dictate straight into any text field, or capture audio from videos, podcasts, and calls. Perfect transcription, everywhere.

  • Floating bubble, always within reach
  • Captures system audio (the neat trick)
  • Drops text right into any app
  • Bring your own key — no subscription
Free Bring Your Own Key
Get on Google Play

Storybox

AI bedtime stories for your kids

Magical, personalized bedtime stories with custom characters, real narration, and age-appropriate content in lots of languages.

  • Personalized stories with custom characters
  • 14+ languages
  • High-quality audio narration
  • Safe, age-appropriate content
Family Friendly
Get on Google Play
About us

About AI BlackBox FC

A small, independent studio building AI tools you actually own

Why we build this

AI BlackBox FC is an independent, bootstrapped studio started in 2025. We build AI tools that put you in charge of your data, your models, and your memory.

We think your AI should get smarter over time — not reset every time you close the tab. Your personal AI memory shouldn't live in someone else's cloud. And the tools you use every day should belong to you, not to a subscription you'll never own.

Founded 2025
Status Independent & Bootstrapped
Products 3 Live Products
Contact brandon@aiblackboxfc.com

Who's behind it

Brandon Slacum

Founder & CEO

A 20-year veteran of fire alarm systems integration, specializing in programming the most complex life-safety installations in the industry — FM-200 suppression, pre-action systems, voice evacuation, high-rise, and mass-notification for places where failure isn't an option, like data centers and hospitals.

That background — building deterministic, failure-is-not-an-option systems — is exactly the engineering philosophy behind the BlackBox: rigorous testing, reliable architecture, and tools that just work every time. Self-taught developer who saw a chance to point two decades of systems experience at AI infrastructure.

What's under the hood

Built on Google Cloud with integrations across 9 AI providers. Real engineering, real APIs, real production workloads.

Google Cloud (Primary)

  • Gemini APILanguage models & reasoning
  • ImagenImage generation
  • Veo 3.1Video generation
  • LyriaMusic generation
  • Cloud TTSText-to-speech
  • Vertex AIML infrastructure & embeddings

More AI Providers

  • OpenAIGPT, TTS, Whisper
  • AnthropicClaude Opus & Sonnet
  • xAIGrok models
  • ElevenLabsMusic, voices, cloning
  • DeepSeekReasoning models
  • + moreMistral, Cohere, Perplexity

Core Architecture

  • Immutable LedgerAppend-only, verified snapshots
  • Semantic SearchMeaning-based retrieval
  • FastAPIPython async backend
  • Byte ManifestInstant snapshot retrieval
  • Multi-AgentShared memory substrate
  • MCP ProtocolTool integration standard

Pick your box

Buy it once. Own it forever. No subscriptions, no recurring fees — ever.

Standard

Minisforum MS-01

$ 2,000 one-time
  • MS-01 mini-PC, 1TB NVMe + 32GB RAM
  • Encrypted Apricorn USB — one-click backup
  • 9 AI providers (bring your own keys)
  • Image, video, music & voice
  • Unlimited snapshots & perfect memory
  • 100% data ownership + free updates
Order Standard

Add cellular — TG200 LTE Gateway

Give your box a real phone number. SMS + voice calls over a cellular SIM. Optional on any tier.

+$750 Add to order
Coming soon

Software-only license. Want to run the BlackBox on hardware you already own? We're working on a bring-your-own-box option. Get on the waitlist →

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Questions, answered

Same software, same great experience — both ship with a 1TB NVMe drive and 32GB of RAM. The Ultra (MS-02 Ultra) is the one you can grow into: a faster 24-core CPU with an NPU, room for up to 256GB of RAM, 25GbE networking, and a full-size GPU slot for running bigger local models. If you're not sure, Standard is plenty for almost everyone.

A fully configured Minisforum mini-PC with the BlackBox pre-installed, an encrypted Apricorn USB drive for one-click backups of your memory and keys, the power cable, and a quick-start guide. Plug in, add your API keys, and you're off.

The TG200 LTE gateway ($750) gives your BlackBox a real phone number. Drop in a SIM and it can read and reply to texts and pick up phone calls in your AI's voice — all saved to the same memory as everything else. It handles SMS and voice calls (not picture/MMS messaging). It's optional and works on either tier.

You bring your own API keys from Google, OpenAI, Anthropic, and others, so you pay the providers directly at their normal rates — usually $5–15/month depending on how much you generate. No subscription to us, no markup. The box itself is a one-time purchase.

Nope. The Portal is a web page you open in any browser on your network. Just talk to it — "make an image of a sunset," "build me a spreadsheet," "write that email." It figures out which tools to use on its own. No coding required.

Yes. The BlackBox runs on your own network. Your conversations, creations, and memory stay on your hardware. When you use a cloud AI provider, only that specific request goes out — your history and memory stay home. And the encrypted Apricorn backup means you can always restore to a working state.