One-time offline appliance setup for places where service is weak, expensive, or gone.
A ready-to-use Project NOMAD appliance prepared for local access, so crews, families, schools, and remote sites can open maps, manuals, lessons, and reference material from nearby devices without depending on the internet.
You are buying hardware, setup, and preparation, not locking into a required monthly fee. Loaded content works locally, and updates can be added later when a connection is available.
Built for nearby devices in offsite conditions
Phones, tablets, and laptops can connect over your local network or an optional travel router, even at cabins, field tables, temporary work areas, and other low-connectivity environments.
Problem and solution
Storms, rural dead zones, remote job sites, vessels, travel, and overloaded networks all create the same problem: the information you need is somewhere else. A local NOMAD appliance keeps selected content where the work is actually happening.
Keep manuals, medical references, maps, and training material on-site
Use it where there is no reliable internet, limited connectivity, or expensive data
Pay once for the appliance and setup instead of relying on a recurring content subscription
Refresh content later whenever a connection is available again
Product tiers
Quote ranges reflect hardware, setup labor, documentation, testing, packaging, 1 year of included product support, and available 1-3 year hardware warranty options. Final numbers move with refurbished inventory, storage capacity, warranty terms, and router bundle choices, but the appliance itself is quoted as a one-time purchase rather than a required subscription.
$560-$630 typical quote range
Refurbished hardware pricing changes with seller inventory and warranty terms.
A low-cost offline box for trucks, cabins, go-bags, and backup shelves where you want critical information on hand without relying on reliable internet.
Best for: Emergency kits, cabins, field trucks, and starter offline libraries
Best overall
$750-$999 typical quote range
The range reflects current mini PC availability, storage size, and brand/model selection.
The best fit for regular offsite use when crews, families, or community groups need a stronger offline library, with a pre-setup offline kit option for dependable field use.
Best for: Homesteads, remote work sites, schools, churches, community teams, and pre-setup field kits
$1,750-$2,200 typical quote range
Premium builds vary most because GPU, storage, and compact high-performance hardware availability changes quickly.
A higher-performance deployment for research groups, industrial teams, mobile command setups, or larger offline collections, with a pre-setup offline kit option for serious field use.
Best for: Industrial teams, research stations, mobile command setups, and pre-setup field deployments
Offline media
NOMAD is more than a box with files on it. The appliance can be prepared with the major offline media and tool categories highlighted by Project NOMAD, plus documents you provide that need to stay available offline.
Powered by Kiwix
Load searchable offline knowledge such as Wikipedia, Project Gutenberg books, medical references, repair guides, survival material, and other curated collections.
Powered by Ollama
Optional local models can support chat, writing, analysis, coding help, and document-aware lookup without sending prompts to a cloud service. Capability depends on the selected hardware and model.
Powered by Local storage
Add manuals, SOPs, emergency binders, training packets, curriculum, or proprietary reference material that needs to stay available offline on your own appliance.
Powered by OpenStreetMap
Prepare map regions for navigation, route planning, and terrain review when reliable internet is not available.
Powered by Kolibri
Keep Khan Academy courses, educational videos, interactive lessons, and broader K-12 learning resources available offline.
What you can do with NOMAD
The strongest setups are tailored to a real use case: emergency planning, off-grid living, homeschooling, remote operations, or private local research. Load the content you expect to need before the connection fails.
Emergency readiness
When storms, fires, or outages knock networks offline, the box still gives you local access to the information you planned ahead to keep.
Homeschool and education
A local learning library lets students keep working without depending on home internet, hotspots, or crowded public networks.
Off-grid living
Remote homes and cabins still need practical knowledge for repairs, gardening, food preservation, and daily problem-solving.
Remote work sites
Construction crews, ranch operations, research stations, mobile teams, and ships can keep technical references nearby when reliable internet is weak or absent.
Travel and expedition use
For overland trips, remote travel, and long stretches away from reliable service, the appliance becomes a portable reference station.
Private local research
Some buyers want local search, local AI, and local documents simply because they do not want their questions sent to outside services.
What stays local
The appliance is valuable because of what it makes available nearby: searchable references, maps, training material, proprietary manuals, SOPs, emergency plans, and optional local AI-assisted lookup from the content you load, depending on selected hardware and model.
Kiwix-powered information library: Wikipedia, Project Gutenberg, medical references, repair guides, and curated collections
Optional Ollama-powered local AI assistant for offline chat, writing, analysis, coding, and document lookup, depending on selected hardware and model
Customer-provided manuals, SOPs, emergency plans, curriculum, and proprietary documents can be stored offline on the appliance
OpenStreetMap offline maps for regional navigation, route planning, and terrain review where configured
Kolibri education platform with Khan Academy courses, videos, interactive lessons, and K-12 learning resources
Nearby phones, tablets, and laptops connect over your local network or optional portable router
Loaded content keeps working without a recurring subscription from us
How it works
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Choose the appliance tier that matches your location, users, and offsite workload.
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We source the hardware, install Project NOMAD, and prepare the system for local access.
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Your appliance is tested, documented, and packed with simple connection steps.
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Power it on, connect nearby devices, and use your local library even with no reliable internet.
Offline router bundle
An optional travel router bundle makes the appliance easier to use at cabins, work sites, classrooms, vehicles, and temporary setups. Nearby devices connect locally without needing a traditional home network or reliable internet.
Who it is for
About Project NOMAD
Project NOMAD is a separate open-source project under Apache 2.0. We do not own Project NOMAD, and we do not imply endorsement, partnership, sponsorship, or trademark ownership. Our offer is hardware, installation, configuration, testing, documentation, and support for a preconfigured appliance built around the official open-source project.
Explore the official project
Project NOMAD is a separate open-source project. For the latest install docs, hardware compatibility, troubleshooting, benchmark comparisons, and community discussion, use the official resources.
Want to build your own? Visit the official Project NOMAD site for the latest overview and docs.
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Review the source, Apache 2.0 license, releases, issues, and community development activity.
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Need community help or compatibility info? Check the Discord linked from the official install docs.
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For the latest hardware guidance and tested systems, refer to the official Project NOMAD resources.
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Read the official Ubuntu and Debian install path before choosing self-install or appliance setup.
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Compare community hardware performance and NOMAD Benchmark results before selecting a system.
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Use the official FAQ and troubleshooting materials for upstream behavior and common questions.
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FAQ preview
You are buying a ready-to-use offline system: hardware, installation, configuration, testing, documentation, and optional support. You are not buying ownership of Project NOMAD itself.
Project NOMAD is installed and configured on the appliance as open-source software under Apache 2.0. Project NOMAD is a separate open-source project that we do not own.
Yes. Once content and tools are loaded, the appliance is meant to work locally without outside internet. That is the point for rural homes, off-grid setups, remote work locations, and emergency scenarios where service may be poor or unavailable.
The material loaded onto your appliance stays available locally without a required monthly subscription from us. Depending on the build, that can include offline references, maps, manuals, SOPs, proprietary documents you provide, education tools, and local AI features supported by the selected hardware.
Tell us who will use it, where it will live, what content matters, and whether you want the portable router bundle. We will recommend a practical configuration.