On Kickstarter · November 15 – December 14, 2026

AI Answer Box: your AI clone, phone answerer and office server.

One quiet box in your office that runs your own AI. Your AI clone answers your calls, drafts your email and makes your ads in your voice, and the same box is a five-bay file server for the whole office, up to 160 TB, on hardware you own.

$41,950funding goal · first batch of 10
Nov 15 – Dec 14campaign · late pledges after
$4,195the box with 8 TB mirrored, installed
Feb 2027ships about 8 weeks after the campaign

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Eight jobs, one box

What the AI Answer Box does for your office

The AI runs on the box's own processor, in your office. Nothing goes out (an email, a text, a booking, an ad) until you approve it.

Clone

Your AI clone

We clone your voice on the box, so your assistant talks as you, on the phone and on the box's screen.

Phone

AI phone answerer

Answers every call, day or night: books appointments, takes messages, texts reminders to callers who opt in, and puts callers through to you when they ask for a person. Every call starts with a recording notice.

Assist

AI assistant

Ask it about your day by voice or on screen: schedule, reminders, follow-ups and calls you owe.

Server

Private office server

Five bays, up to 160 TB, one shared drive for the whole office, encrypted, with hourly snapshots and a nightly backup.

Ads

Ad and video studio

Makes short ads with your cloned voice, captions and music, start to finish on the box. Nothing posts until you approve it.

Email

Email and office paperwork

Sorts your email and drafts replies that wait for your OK, captures your time, builds invoices and sends you a morning brief.

Notes

Meeting notes and translation

Takes notes only after everyone agrees to be recorded, and translates live in eight languages.

Files

Ask your files

Answers questions from your own documents and shows which file the answer came from. Law firms also get Lex, New York legal research with a citation checker.

What it does

Everything a small office needs from a file server

We set it up, test it and ship it ready to plug into your router. Every computer in the office sees it as a shared drive.

Undo

Hourly snapshots: undo ransomware and mistakes

The server takes a read-only snapshot every hour. Anyone in the office can right-click a file or folder in Windows and choose Restore previous versions to go back to any hour in the last two weeks. Daily, weekly and monthly snapshots reach back six months.

Share

One shared drive, a login for each person

Folders for every client, job or patient file in one place, behind a password. You decide who sees which folders.

Encrypt

Encrypted drives

Data drives are encrypted with AES-256. A drive pulled out of the box is unreadable without the box's key.

Back up

A nightly encrypted backup

Every night the server copies your files, encrypted, to a second drive, keeping 30 daily, 8 weekly and 12 monthly versions. Drive protection alone isn't a backup; this is.

Watch

Health checks every 15 minutes

The server checks its drives, storage space, snapshots and last night's backup around the clock, so a failing drive gets noticed before it becomes a lost one.

Scan

Scan straight to the server

A Scans folder your office copier or scanner can save to directly, so paper goes into the same place as everything else.

Phones

Photo and phone backup

A private photo library on the server (Immich) with iPhone and Android apps: job-site and office photos back up to your box, not to someone else's cloud.

Anywhere

Reach it from anywhere

We set up a secure HTTPS address for your server, so the photo app and web library work from home or a job site, with no ports opened on your router. Each person logs in with their own password.

PCs

A backup target for every PC

A PC Backups folder for Windows File History or your backup software, so each computer's files have a copy on the server.

Fast

Two 10-gigabit network ports

Two 10GbE ports, ready for a faster office network. It works on the ordinary gigabit network you have today.

Ransomware, undone

What happens when someone clicks the wrong email

Ransomware scrambles every file it can reach on the shared drive. It can't reach the snapshots: they're read-only and can't be changed or deleted over the network.

9:00 am: the hourly snapshot is taken. Everything is fine.

9:40 am: a laptop is infected. Files on the shared drive are scrambled and renamed.

10:15 am: you clean or replace the laptop, then open the shared drive's Previous versions and pick 9:00 am.

The files come back exactly as they were at 9:00. No ransom, no cloud restore that takes days.

We tested this on our own box: files overwritten and renamed over the network came back byte-for-byte from the snapshot, and the snapshot couldn't be deleted or written over the network.

The hardware

Far more server than a typical NAS

BaseMinisforum NAS 5 AI, AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 (16 cores), 64 GB memory
Drive baysFive 3.5" SATA bays: two 8 TB drives installed and mirrored, three open for more
Fast storageNVMe system drive, plus open NVMe slots for files you open all day
Drive protectionThe two drives mirror each other: if one fails, nothing is lost; replace it and it rebuilds
NetworkTwo 10GbE ports
Works withWindows and Mac (as a network drive), copiers and scanners (scan to folder), iPhone and Android (photo app)
Set-upWe install drives, set up the shares, snapshots, encryption and nightly backup, and test each box before it ships
WarrantyManufacturer's 2-year warranty on the hardware

The AI runs on the box

The processor and 64 GB of memory run the AI model on the box itself, in your office: your AI clone, the phone answerer, the assistant and the studio. You choose which features are on at setup, and nothing goes out until you approve it.

Rewards

One server, drives installed and tested

Every server is set up and tested before it ships, US only.

Price lock
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Holds the $4,195 server price for 45 days after the campaign, credited when you buy. Nothing ships.

Server + 8 TB · + $49 shipping
$4,195

AI Answer Box

64 GB memory, two 8 TB drives installed and mirrored (8 TB usable; one drive can fail without losing files), three bays open for more.

Merch
$50

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More storage on Kickstarter too: 40 TB installed ($5,482), 64 TB installed ($6,742) and Fully Loaded, five 32 TB drives (160 TB), at $9,995. Extra drives are on the order page.

Risks & honesty

Servers come from a first batch we order the week the campaign confirms. The manufacturer quotes 45–60 working days to build and ship, and we install drives, set up and test every box, so we estimate about 8 weeks after the campaign ends (February 2027), in pledge order. Drive prices have moved a lot in 2026; your pledge price is fixed, so that risk is ours. If a date moves, we tell backers in writing the day we know. Drive protection is not a backup, which is why every box gets snapshots and a nightly backup.