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No subscriptions. Ever.
No monthly per-seat fee, no per-token metering, no annual renewal that creeps up 20%. You buy the appliance once and the running cost is the electricity it draws.
Albatross Base — On-premise AI appliance
Your own AI. In your building.
A frontier-class open-weight model running on hardware you own, on your network, with no subscription and no per-token bill.
ALBATROSS BASE · REV 1.0
ONLINE
GPU MEMORY
32GB
Radeon AI PRO R9700
MEMORY BANDWIDTH
640GB/s
The number that sets speed
PROCESSOR
8C / 16T
AMD Ryzen 7 7700
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£4,000 hardware · £1,000 setup · no subscription
CONTEXT WINDOW
262K
Tokens, native
STORAGE
2–8TB
NVMe, chosen at order
NETWORK
LANONLY
Never exposed to the internet
MODELQwen3.8-27B
FOOTPRINT424 × 175 × 260 mm
DRAW~450 W peak
SUBSCRIPTIONNone
DATA NEVER LEAVES THE BUILDINGNO PER-TOKEN BILLINGNO PER-SEAT LICENCESOPEN WEIGHTS · APACHE 2.0WORKS WITH THE INTERNET DOWNBUILT AND SUPPORTED IN THE UKYOU OWN THE HARDWAREDATA NEVER LEAVES THE BUILDINGNO PER-TOKEN BILLINGNO PER-SEAT LICENCESOPEN WEIGHTS · APACHE 2.0WORKS WITH THE INTERNET DOWNBUILT AND SUPPORTED IN THE UKYOU OWN THE HARDWARE
On-site consultancyPhone lines 8am – 8pm
Set up an AI assistant for your business
Book a two-hour on-site visit with one of our experts. We install it, configure it around how you actually work, and train your team before we leave.
£500ONE VISIT · EX VAT2HOURS ON SITE
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We answer 8am to 8pm, UK time. Speak to an expert before you book if you have questions — booking takes payment up front.
The maths01 / 06
Subscriptions never stop. Hardware stops costing you on day one.
The two most capable hosted models in the world cost between $1.23 and $3.14 per task at maximum effort. Multiply that by a team, by every working day, forever. An Albatross is bought once. After that, a task costs you electricity.
HOSTED AIRented, metered, forever
- Cost model
- Per seat + per token
- Cost per task
- $1.23 – $3.14
- Cost in year 5
- Still increasing
- Your data
- Sent to a third party
- If the internet drops
- You stop working
- Price rises
- Not your decision
- What you own
- Nothing
ALBATROSSBought once, owned outright
- Cost model
- One-time purchase
- Cost per task
- £0 + electricity
- Cost in year 5
- £0
- Your data
- Stays on your network
- If the internet drops
- It keeps working
- Price rises
- There is no price
- What you own
- The box and the weights
Total, once
£5,000EX VAT
£4,000 for the appliance and £1,000 to have it installed, connected to your systems and your team trained on it. There is no second invoice.
Cost-per-task figures: Artificial Analysis — Cost per Task, weighted average across the Intelligence Index, read 15 August 2026. Claude Opus 5 (max) $2.34, Claude Fable 5 (with fallback) $3.14, GPT-5.6 Sol (max) $1.23.
Why own it02 / 06
What ownership actually changes
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One-time purchase, and it's yours
The hardware is your asset — capital expenditure, on your balance sheet, depreciable. The model weights are open source under Apache 2.0. Nobody can revoke either.
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Your data never leaves the building
The Albatross serves an API on your local network only. It is never exposed to the internet. Client files, contracts, payroll, patient notes — nothing is uploaded to anyone, because there is nobody to upload it to.
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Unlimited use across the whole team
Ten people can hammer it all day and the bill does not move. There is no usage anxiety, so people actually use it — which is the entire point.
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It keeps working when the internet doesn't
Broadband outage, provider incident, rate limit, region down. None of it touches you. The model is sat in your office on your switch.
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It grows with the business
The appliance learns your business through your own documents and your own context, not a generic assistant. Swap in a better open-weight model as they ship — the hardware doesn't expire.
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No vendor can deprecate you
Hosted models get retired, renamed and repriced on someone else's schedule. Yours runs the version you chose, for as long as you choose.
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Set up properly, by us
We do not ship you a box and wish you luck. We install it, connect it to your systems, load your documents, train your team, and support it.
What it does03 / 06
One machine, most of the back office
Everything below runs locally, on your own hardware, from plain English instructions.
BUILD
Build your website and internal apps by prompting
Describe what you want. It writes the code, runs it, and hands you something working — landing pages, booking forms, internal tools, dashboards.
A free chatbot for your website
Trained on your products, prices and policies. Hosted by you, answering out of hours, with no per-conversation charge attached to it.
Automate the jobs nobody wants
Multi-step work that runs on its own — read the inbox, extract the data, update the sheet, draft the reply, flag the exceptions.
ADMIN
Handle invoices end to end
Read incoming invoices, pull out line items and totals, match them against purchase orders, chase what's overdue, and generate your outgoing ones.
PowerPoint and spreadsheet work
Board decks, quotes, pricing models, month-end reports. Describe the output and it produces the file — including the analysis behind it.
Contracts, quotes and proposals
Draft from your own templates, compare versions, summarise a 60-page agreement into the five clauses that matter.
CUSTOMERS
Customer relations at speed
Draft replies in your tone of voice, summarise long threads, prep call notes, and follow up without anyone remembering to.
Answer over your own documents
Point it at your file share. Ask questions in plain English and get answers with the source document attached.
Read images and scanned paperwork
Delivery notes, receipts, site photos, handwritten forms, whiteboards. It sees them, not just text.
Specification04 / 06
Albatross Base
One SKU. One configuration, apart from the storage you choose. Every unit built and tested in the UK.
DATASHEET · REV 1.0ISSUED 17 AUG 2026
ModelQwen3.8-27B — text and vision, Apache 2.0, 262K contextOpen weights
GPUAMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 32GB GDDR6640 GB/s, ROCm
ProcessorAMD Ryzen 7 7700 — 8 cores / 16 threadsAM5, 65 W
Memory16GB DDR5-5600 dual channel32GB option at order
Boot storage1TB NVMe (WD_BLACK SN850X)OS + model library
Data storage2TB / 4TB / 8TB NVMeYou choose at checkout
Networking2.5 Gigabit Ethernet, Wi-Fi 6E fallbackLAN only
Operating systemHardened Linux, headless, auto-recoveringNo monitor needed
Chassis424 × 175 × 260 mm, ~19 litresSits under a desk
Power750W 80+ Platinum, ~450 W peak drawStandard 13A socket
AccessDesktop app for macOS and WindowsAuto-discovers on your LAN
Warranty3 years return-to-base, UK supportUKCA marked
ESTIMATE
Projected throughput ~28 tokens/second single-stream at 4-bit quantisation, derived from 640 GB/s memory bandwidth against a ~16GB model. This is an engineering estimate, not a measured result — we will publish measured figures once the production unit is benchmarked.
Pricing05 / 06
One invoice. Then nothing.
No per-seat licence, no per-token metering, no annual renewal. All prices exclude VAT.
HARDWAREone-time
Albatross Base
£4,000
The appliance itself. Built and burn-in tested in the UK, imaged with a hardened Linux stack and your model, serialised, UKCA marked and delivered to your door.
- 32GB GPU · 640 GB/s inference
- Storage tier of your choice, 2–8TB
- Desktop app for macOS and Windows
- 3-year return-to-base warranty
- You own the hardware outright
SETUPone-time
Installation & onboarding
£1,000
We come to you and make it work inside your business, rather than leaving a box on your desk. This is the difference between owning an AI and owning a computer.
- On-site install and network setup
- Connected to your systems and file share
- Your documents ingested and indexed
- Team training session
- Ongoing support and model updates
Total to own your AI
£5,000EX VAT · PAID ONCE
How it works06 / 06
Four steps to owning your AI
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Talk to us
A short call about what your business actually does, what's eating the hours, and which storage tier fits your documents. No obligation, no scripted demo.
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We build your unit
Each Albatross is assembled and burn-in tested in the UK to our specification, then imaged, serialised and shipped to you. Typically 10–15 working days.
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We install and set it up
We come to you. It goes on your network, connects to your systems, ingests your documents, and your team gets trained on it. That's the £1,000 setup.
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You own it
Your team opens the app and works. Nothing to renew, nothing metered. We stay on the end of the phone for support and model updates.
Questions
The things people ask
Not at the very top end, and we won't pretend otherwise — the largest hosted models are bigger than anything that fits on a desk. What the Albatross runs is a frontier-class open-weight model that handles the overwhelming majority of real business work: drafting, summarising, extracting, coding, analysis, reading documents and images. For the small number of tasks that genuinely need a frontier model, the app can route that one request to a hosted API if you choose. You decide, per request.
It stays on your premises. The appliance serves an API on your local network and is never exposed to the internet. We do not receive your prompts, your documents or your outputs. There is no telemetry pipeline carrying your content back to us.
Electricity. It draws roughly 450 W under full load and far less when idle — comparable to a desktop PC. There is no software licence, no per-seat fee and no usage metering.
A small team comfortably. It is built for concurrent use, not one person at a time. If you have heavy simultaneous demand we will spec the memory accordingly before you order.
Three-year return-to-base warranty and UK support. We are the manufacturer of record — you deal with us, not a component vendor and not an overseas call centre.
The hardware is a general-purpose inference machine, not a fixed-function product. Open-weight models ship continuously and better ones will run on the same box. We push new models as part of support.
No. It arrives configured. It boots headless, recovers by itself after a power cut, and your team reaches it through a desktop app that finds it on the network automatically.
Yes. Point it at your document share and it answers over your own material, with the source attached. Tell us your corpus size and we'll spec the storage and memory for it.
Walsall · West Midlands · UK
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