The Offline AI Experts

Offline AI. No internet required.

The Burritt Center builds private, offline AI products that run on a USB drive or external SSD. No internet, no cloud account, no tracking. We also help companies use AI offline, optimize local LLM performance, and build their own offline AI products.

One-time purchase. No subscription. 30-day money-back guarantee. Ships in 2 to 3 weeks.

Private AI chats, private AI advice, private AI-powered teaching.

Featured editions

Offline AI for the people who use it most.

Every edition ships on a USB drive or external SSD. The AI, the libraries, and the saved work all live on the drive. See the full lineup in the Products menu.

Everyday private AI

Burritt Center

Private AI chats and advice without a cloud transcript.

Who this is for: Travelers who work from coffee shops, hotel rooms, and airplanes. Privacy-conscious professionals who refuse to paste client work into a public chatbot. Rural households on slow or unreliable internet. Families doing personal research, medical questions, financial planning, or sensitive correspondence. Writers and consultants who want a private place to draft and think. Anyone tired of every prompt becoming someone else's training data, transcript, or marketing signal.

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For parents and teachers

Homeschool Edition

A private AI workbench for parents and teachers. You use it. Your children read the results.

Who this is for: Homeschool parents, co-op leaders, tutors, and private teachers who plan lessons, write reading passages, build worksheets, design quizzes, and prep next week's curriculum. Use the AI to draft age-appropriate stories and reading material for your children, explain a concept four different ways before you teach it, generate practice problems at the right level, and produce printable handouts. The AI is a tool for the adult in the room. Like all Burritt Center products, this is built for grown-ups, not children. You stay in control of what your children see.

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What we do

Four things we do better than anyone else.

Cloud AI is everywhere. Offline AI is the harder problem, and the one most teams underestimate. The Burritt Center is built around four disciplines.

Offline AI

We design AI systems that run without an internet connection. On a laptop. On a USB drive. In a basement. On a plane. In a secure facility. Wherever the cloud can't reach, we make AI useful.

AI Privacy

Runs with no internet connection. No cloud transcript, no account, no tracking. Sensitive prompts, regulated data, private notes, and proprietary IP stay on hardware you own.

Local LLM Performance

Quantization, model selection, hardware fit, and inference tuning so local models actually perform. We benchmark on real consumer and workstation hardware, not on slideware.

Custom Offline AI Builds

Need your own offline AI product, internal tool, or fully offline workflow? Under the Executive Retainer, we help companies design and build it, end to end.

Why offline matters now

Cloud AI is convenient. Offline AI is sovereign.

Every cloud prompt becomes someone else's training data, tracking, transcript, or breach risk. Offline AI flips the model: the work, the data, and the audit trail stay where you put them.

Disconnected by default

The AI runs on your computer, reading from your drive. Nothing you ask is sent to a cloud service or stored on a third-party server. Works disconnected.

Sensitive work stays local

Regulated data, client notes, legal review, IP, family records, journals, and private advice never need to become cloud account history.

You own the stack

One-time purchase, no subscription, no rate limits, no per-token billing, no vendor model swaps mid-quarter. The drive is yours.

Founder and lab

An offline AI lab above a garage. Run by a Fortune 500 IT veteran.

Ken Rheingans has been building technology since 1976. Real-time firmware in aerospace and defense. Co-founded startups. Led software teams of 100+ engineers. Rose to VP Global Information Services at a $20B Fortune 500 company operating in 70 countries. During the COVID lockdown, he built an AI lab above his garage and started proving that real AI workloads could run entirely offline.

50 years building tech

Real-time firmware to enterprise AI. Ken has been writing code since 1976 and never stopped building with the tools he advises on.

Fortune 500 VP experience

Led global IT for a $20B Fortune 500 company across 70 countries. Knows how enterprises actually buy, deploy, and govern AI.

Real local-LLM hardware

Dual-CPU workstation, 40 cores, 192GB RAM, dual NVIDIA GPUs. Plus an RTX 5090 daily driver. Models are proven at every tier before they ship.

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For companies

Need offline AI inside your business? We do that too.

The Burritt Center ships consumer products, and under the Executive Retainer we work directly with companies that need private offline AI on their own terms. Three engagements, one relationship, fixed monthly fee.

Engagement 1

Adopt AI offline

For regulated, security-sensitive, or IP-protective teams that need real AI productivity without exposing prompts, files, or audit trails to a cloud vendor. We map use cases, pick local models, and stand up offline workflows your people will actually use.

Engagement 2

Optimize local LLM performance

You already have on-prem or edge hardware. The models are slow, the answers are weak, or the GPU is sitting idle. We diagnose the bottleneck: quantization, model fit, batching, context window, hardware mismatch, and tune it to ship.

Engagement 3

Build your own offline AI product

You have an idea for an offline AI product, internal tool, or fully offline workflow. We help you design it, prove it on real hardware, and build it end to end. Same playbook we use to ship Burritt Center.

See the Executive Retainer Talk to Ken