A sealed AI machine on your own network.
It reads your documents, drafts your filings, and writes working software. Installed in a day, owned outright.
AN ILLUSTRATION, NOT A PHOTOGRAPH.
THE PROBLEM
01
PROHIBITED.
Controlled data is barred from public AI tools. CUI in ChatGPT is a reportable DFARS 252.204-7012 incident, with a 72-hour clock.
02
SHADOW USE.
Written policy does not stop it. Staff use whatever finishes the job fastest. The fix is a sanctioned tool on your own network.
03
ENFORCEMENT.
DoD suspended CMMC's Phase 2 deadline in July, citing costs; the safeguarding rules never paused. In June a Navy logistics contractor paid $507,144 over false compliance claims.
TWO SCENARIOS
Tuesday, 4:40 PM.
Your proposal is due at five. A contracts manager is staring at a forty page RFP with a distribution statement on every page, and the summarizer that would save the hour is one paste away. They know the policy. The deadline does not care about the policy.
With a Node on the rack, the sanctioned tool is the fast tool. The RFP goes into the machine on your own network, the summary and the compliance matrix come back, and the proposal files at 4:58. Nothing crossed the perimeter. No incident, no 72-hour clock, no story.
Thursday, 9:15 AM.
The delivery schedule lives in four spreadsheets that do not agree, and reconciling them eats one morning every week. Someone finally asks the machine for a tool that does it. Twenty minutes later a small working program sits on the shared drive: it reads all four files, flags every disagreement, and prints the morning report. Nobody wrote a requisition. Nobody hired a contractor. The person who asked is not a programmer.
The fastest tool in the building should be the one your people are allowed to use. Tuesday was one percent of what it does.
NOT A CHATBOT
The free tools taught everyone that AI answers questions. A Node runs the same class of technology behind the frontier tools, on your own floor, and it produces finished work.
WORKING SOFTWARE
Scripts, small tools, whole programs. Staff describe the tool in plain English and run what comes back.
WEB PAGES
An intranet page, a form, a working dashboard, from a paragraph of description.
THE DOCUMENTS THAT WIN WORK
Proposal sections, compliance matrices, SOPs, contract-clause reviews, in your own templates.
DRAWINGS AND PHOTOS
With a vision cartridge loaded, staff show it scanned prints and pictures of parts.
Every Node does all of this; the bigger machines do it with stronger hands. The pilot exists so you can watch it happen on your own problems.
THE MACHINES
Four machines, priced flat and in public. Each one is sealed: egress-denied, serving your staff over your own network, with the strongest open model that fits its memory. The drawings are illustrations; the hardware is listed on each card. Prices as of July 15, 2026 and subject to change.
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INTELLIGENCE / FRONTIER = 100
- MODEL
- MINIMAX-M2.7
- HARDWARE
- DGX SPARK, 128GB
- SERVES
- 1-15 STAFF
$14,500 INSTALLED
YEAR 1 CARE INCLUDED, THEN $600/MO
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INTELLIGENCE / FRONTIER = 100
- MODEL
- DEEPSEEK V4 FLASH
- HARDWARE
- 2X SPARK, LINKED, 256GB
- SERVES
- 16-30 STAFF, TWO MACHINES
$26,500 INSTALLED
YEAR 1 CARE INCLUDED, THEN $900/MO
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INTELLIGENCE / FRONTIER = 100
- MODEL
- MINIMAX-M3
- HARDWARE
- 4X RTX PRO 6000, 384GB
- SERVES
- 15-100 STAFF, FAST
FROM $99,500 INSTALLED
YEAR 1 CARE INCLUDED, THEN $1,500/MO
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INTELLIGENCE / FRONTIER = 100
- MODEL
- GLM-5.2, BEST OPEN MODEL
- HARDWARE
- DGX STATION GB300, 748GB
- SERVES
- 15-100 STAFF
FROM $165,000 INSTALLED
YEAR 1 CARE INCLUDED, THEN $2,500/MO
Intelligence: the strongest closed model = 100, on the Artificial Analysis index, JULY 2026. Raw scores 38, 40, 44, 51 against the frontier's 60. Frontier models measure 130 to 144 on Mensa-style IQ tests (trackingai.org); these open models have no published score. Model cartridges swap. Offices that require US-origin weights run gpt-oss, Llama, or Nemotron; the machine is egress-denied either way. NODE 01 sits under the $15,000 federal micro-purchase threshold; purchase cards clear it. NODE 04 and 09 are built to order: 50% deposit, quotes hold 30 days. Care is flat per machine, adjusting up to 5% annually. Prices as of July 15, 2026, subject to change.
Pick a model. See where it lands.
Published open models against the four machines. The verdict is arithmetic over public parameter counts and installed memory, nothing else.
NODE 01 / 128GB
NO FIT
NODE 02 / 256GB
NO FIT
NODE 04 / 384GB
Q3
NODE 09 / 748GB
Q4
Weights-only estimate at 5% overhead; context cache is extra. Published parameter counts.
THE PROOF
The product thesis is a thing you can watch.
This page is running a language model in your browser right now. It is 66 thousand parameters, trained only on our own documents, and small on purpose: the point is where it runs, not what it knows. Your Node runs a model roughly 11 million times larger the same way, inside the building.
- WEIGHTS
- In this tab, 64.2 KB.
- EGRESS
- Zero. Watch the network tab.
THE MATH
| SPLAY NODE | GOV-CLOUD AI | PUBLIC AI TOOLS | |
|---|---|---|---|
| PERMITTED FOR CUI | YES | YES, AFTER MIGRATION | NO |
| YOUR DATA LIVES | IN YOUR BUILDING | MICROSOFT GOV CLOUD | ON VENDOR SERVERS |
| SETUP | FROM $14,500 | $50,000+ MIGRATION | NONE |
| RUNNING COST | $0 YR 1, THEN $600/MO | ~2X LICENSING/SEAT | $25-30/SEAT/MO |
| COST TO ADD A SEAT | $0 | ANOTHER LICENSE | ANOTHER SEAT |
Public tools remain fine for public work. The Node covers the work they are barred from. Gov-cloud figures are typical GCC High migration plus licensing uplift and vary by tenant. Hardware alone does not certify you.
Your headcount. The math.
The gov-cloud band is GCC High class licensing plus migration, and varies by tenant. The Node figure is list price plus 24 months of care at the year-one rate, for the cheapest machine that clears your headcount and your intelligence floor.
HOW IT WORKS
The call.
20 minutes. You talk, we scope. No slides.
The survey.
A readiness survey at your facility. $2,400, credited in full against any machine.
The pilot.
A pilot machine on your bench for 30 days. $2,000, credited in full. Then you decide.
A fleet of four pilot machines exists. Every install is one documented image with a runbook; any competent IT shop could run it without us.
THE RATE CARD
All of it. If a figure is not on this page, it is not a price.
The clean room
A CUI enclave, designed and built inside your facility: segmented network, a bay for your Node, view-only endpoints, documentation pack for your assessor.
$25,000 TO 10 SEATS
$45,000 TO 25 SEATS
Fixed price; the machine is priced separately. You own it, and your IT runs it with our runbook.
Services
* Credited in full against any machine. Courses are operator training: getting employee-grade work out of the machine, on your own examples. Custom models are tuned and benchmarked on your hardware, and your files stay with you. Extra on-site work is $2,400 a day.
On retainer
Model drop: each quarter's best open model, installed and briefed on-site. Included with NODE 04/09 care. AI officer: a standing operator who builds the prompts, workflows, and small tools your staff ask for.
DAY ─── OF THE CMMC REWRITE
DoD suspended the Phase 2 certification deadline on July 13, citing the cost burden on small contractors. DFARS 252.204-7012 remains in force.
QUESTIONS, ANSWERED
Is this CMMC certification?
No, and no machine is. Hardware alone does not certify you. The Node gives your staff a permitted place to work with controlled data, and the clean room engagement includes a documentation pack for your assessor.
Can it actually write software?
Yes. Staff describe a tool in plain English and the machine writes the code; small tools and scripts come back in minutes and run on your own network. It is not a replacement for your software vendor on big systems: it is closer to a very fast junior developer. The pilot exists so you can test it on your own problems.
The strongest open models are Chinese. Can we run American weights?
Yes. Model cartridges swap. Offices that require US-origin weights run gpt-oss, Llama, or Nemotron, and the machine is egress-denied either way: no weights of any origin can send anything out.
Who runs it after the install?
Your IT does, with our runbook. Every install is one documented image. If you would rather we watch it, managed care starts at $600 a month and year one is included with every machine.
What happens if Splay disappears?
You own the machine outright, and the install is a documented image with a runbook. Any competent IT shop could run it without us.
Can we try it before we buy it?
A pilot machine sits on your bench for 30 days for $2,000, credited in full against any machine. So is the $2,400 readiness survey.
What does it cost to add a seat?
$0. The machine is the cost. NODE 01 serves 1 to 15 staff; when you outgrow a machine you buy the next machine, not the next license.
Do you see our data?
No. The machine is egress-denied and your files stay in your building. Custom models are tuned and benchmarked on your hardware, and support visits happen on-site, at the rate on the card.
Why are your prices public?
Because a buyer who checks must find every figure where we said it would be. The intelligence numbers come from a public index with the raw scores printed in the footnote, and every price carries its edition date: July 15, 2026.
TALK TO JACK
One person answers this address: the same one who installs the machines. 20 minutes, no slides.