Estate Box
Your own data warehouse and an AI that learns from your data, in one self-hosted box. Nothing leaves it. In development. Python, Proprietary. Runs on Linux.
What it is
Estate Box is a small computer that sits on your desk or shelf and becomes the home for your own data. It gathers your statements, exchange activity and public market feeds into a proper data warehouse, and runs an AI that trains on that data every night. You read the answers on your phone.
It is built for people who want the insight that cloud apps sell, without handing their data to a cloud app.
Estate Box packages Data Estate, the warehouse and AI brain Bit Primitive has run every day on a Raspberry Pi, as a product anyone can set up.
AI built in
The box ships with an AI brain that learns from your data, not from a model trained somewhere else.
- Trains from scratch, every night. Small, transparent models (categorisation, anomaly detection, forecasting, retrieval) are retrained after each warehouse build on the box itself. No downloaded weights, no external AI service.
- Champion and challenger. Each night a new version of every model competes with the current one on the same held-out data. It is promoted only when it measurably wins, and never when it loses to a simple baseline. The box gets better as your data grows, and you can see why.
- Forecasts that are graded. Every forecast comes with a range, and each one is scored against what actually happened once the date arrives. Hit rates and errors are kept as history.
- Ask in plain words. Questions are answered from facts already in your warehouse, with the source of each answer. It never invents a number.
- Insights and a money optimiser. Recurring charges, price rises, fees, unusual spending and categories running above your own baseline are surfaced as short, plain cards.
What's in the box
| Part | What it does |
|---|---|
| Connectors | Statement files you upload, read-only exchange APIs, public market, FX, macro and news feeds |
| Warehouse | dbt and DuckDB, modelled as a tested star schema: staging, facts, dimensions and app views |
| Brain | The self-training models, their registry, scores and history |
| App | A phone app (installable web app) for your numbers, forecasts, insights and the AI's answers |
| Box | Scheduling, catch-up after power cuts, safe blue/green rebuilds and backups |
Private by design
- Your data stays on the box. No account with us, and nothing passes through Bit Primitive.
- Connections are read-only. The box can see your exchange activity; it cannot trade.
- Account numbers and other identifiers are masked before any model, log or screen sees them, and automated tests check that they stay masked.
- Remote access to the app goes through access control you own.
Status
In development, under a working name. Estate Box is not available yet: there is no download, pre-order or price. The engine it packages already runs daily as Data Estate.