Your files, your questions, your compute — running on your own devices at a light bulb’s worth of power each. North Star is the sovereign fabric that binds them into one: it answers as one, it doesn’t go dark when a node does, and it reaches across your sites — all provable, and nothing ever leaves your ground.
Every device you run the stack on becomes a node. North Star binds your nodes into one sovereign whole:
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Answers as one
Ask once; a signed answer comes back from across your nodes — you never think about which one holds what.
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Never goes dark
A node can drop and another keeps answering. Your data center has no single point of failure.
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Reaches across your sites
Home, office, a truck, a rooftop — one fabric, one provable whole, and nothing leaves your ground.
Already real: a signed answer that spans two separate machines — and “take one offline, the other still answers” — is a live demo you can try.
A rack, or a light bulb
The same data-work — search, analytics, action, proof. One needs a room. The other needs an outlet.
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A data-center rack
5,000–15,000 watts
✗ a dedicated cooling system
✗ a room, racks, raised floor
✗ a colo or grid-power contract
✗ a monthly invoice, forever
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A North Star node
35–65 watts — a light bulb
✓ no cooling — runs at room temperature
✓ sits on a shelf
✓ a wall outlet — or a solar panel
✓ plug it in. That’s the bill.
About a hundred times less power, and none of the cooling — for the same data-work. Only one of them needs a data center. The other one is a light bulb.
Two ways to add a node
Run it on your own hardware, or let us build the node.
Every node on your fabric runs the same stack — sealed, signed, provable. You choose how each one gets there.
Option 1 · the software
Run it on hardware you already own
License the stack and run it on your own box or instance — on hardware we’ve reviewed and authorized (integrity and safety are set at install; self-install isn’t offered). Program to it, not into it: standard APIs in, provable answers out, nothing of ours to import.
A sealed server stack you plug in and own — nothing to rent, no cloud bill, no data leaving. Designed by us, delivered ready to run, in two builds:
North Star grid
Plug into any wall outlet. Sits on a shelf, no cooling, no contract.
North Star Solar off-grid
Solar plus a battery in every node — your roof becomes infrastructure, running day and night, off the grid.
North Star Solar
Your roof stops being an energy asset — and becomes an infrastructure asset.
The same stack, powered by the sun. Your cold data stays home on a couple of watts; a tiny slice is worked to make the whole archive live — searchable, computed, acted-on, provable — on power your panels already make.
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Solar is the server
Each node runs on the power a panel already makes — answering and proving over whole archives, with the data in its owner’s hands. No grid contract, no cloud bill.
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Fueled by what you waste
Every array throws energy away — the clipped midday peak, the curtailed surplus. A node is a flexible load that eats exactly that and stores it in its own battery — so the same energy that was lost now runs it through the night.
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Never goes dark
Each node is designed with about a day of battery — solar by day, battery by night. Through storms, nights and outages, it stays up. No grid, no cloud, no blackout.
See what a roof makes live
Pick a roof. See how much of your data it makes fully live — and the compute behind it. Illustrative.
Pick a roof size to see what it runs.
On any build
It doesn’t just hold your data — it answers it.
Ask a question and get a cited answer — the exact source record and a signed receipt, the numbers computed and proven — on your own node. Provable answers, on your own ground. That’s why a node here is worth far more than storage alone.
If you install roofs or run sites at scale, North Star grows into a shared fabric — roof by roof, market by market. That’s a partnership, not a purchase; the terms are set per engagement. If that’s you, let’s talk.
Pre-launch design specs — the shape North Star is built to. Final specs and pricing at launch.
North Star · grid
Any outlet
Power
35–65 watts from any wall outlet. No cooling — runs at room temperature.
Form
Sits on a shelf. No GPU, no rack, no data-center anything.
Uptime
Always on; across several nodes, one keeps answering if another goes dark.
North Star Solar · off-grid
The sun, day and night
Power
Solar by day; a battery in every node carries about a day of runtime through the night.
Energy
Harvests the energy your panels waste — the clipped peak, the curtailed surplus.
Independence
No grid, no cloud, no contract. Runs fully disconnected.
What it is: your data’s live brain — search, analytics, action, proof, all on your own data, all provable, all included and sealed. What it isn’t: a GPU training rig or a general server for other software. It does a data center’s work on your data — not everything a data center can do.
Own the machine and the data.
North Star — the Validiti stack as a sealed server you plug in. Grid or solar. Reserve yours, or bring your own hardware — reviewed and authorized — and run the software.
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