Mentary AI: The Package That Arrives Without the Cloud Account — What $299.99 Actually Buys You

Air-gapped, no API keys, no telemetry. Here's what the license contains and how it behaves once it lands on your hardware.

Most "local AI" products still need one external dependency: the vendor's account system. You pull a model, but the pull goes through their endpoint. You run inference, but the runtime phones home to check your entitlement.

Mentary AI is built on a different premise. Once it's on your machine, it should not need the internet at all — and it should not need to talk to us again.

What the license actually contains

The package is five things, and it's worth being precise about all five because two of them are the ones people discover they needed only after a failed deployment:

1. Model weights and inference engine. Not a pointer to a download, not a container that fetches on first boot. The weights and the optimized runtime are in the package. CPU and GPU-accelerated paths are both included.

2. Deployment scripts. For bare-metal Linux, workstations, and VMs. They handle dependency resolution, model initialization, and health checks. The point of these is that the person installing it isn't necessarily the person who will operate it — so the script has to be the thing that survives the handoff.

3. Containerization. A production Docker image with Compose orchestration, persistent volume configuration for model data, resource limit templates, and network isolation policies. The isolation policy is the part that matters for your security review, not the image itself.

4. Documentation. Installation, configuration, API usage, security hardening, performance tuning, troubleshooting, plus architecture diagrams and integration patterns for common enterprise environments.

5. Thirty days of priority deployment support. Direct email to the deployment engineering team after purchase. Installation help, performance work, and anything environment-specific.

The price is a one-time $299.99 USD. There's no recurring fee and no per-seat metering. The 30-day support window is the only thing with a clock on it.

What "zero external network reliance" means in practice

The claim has three testable parts, and I'd rather state them so you can check them yourself:

• No API calls at inference time. A query is computed on your hardware. There's no round trip.
• No telemetry. No usage analytics leave the box.
• It runs air-gapped. Inference works with the network interface down.

That third one is the load-bearing claim, because it's the one that changes your risk model. If the model stops working when the internet does, then your availability depends on your connection. If it doesn't, then a network partition degrades your connectivity, not your AI.

The vendor's own demo page states "100% local processing — zero network activity," and the page itself is a working tool: you type a query into it and get a structured response back. It's a simulator rather than the model, but the interface shape is the real one — the input, the "System ready" state, the response block. Testing the page before buying tells you whether that interaction model fits your workflows, which is the question most likely to decide the purchase.

How deployment actually goes

The order on the page is four steps, and the first one is the one that trips people up: email is the only contact method. The page says so explicitly.

1. Email [email protected], state that you're interested in Mentary AI. Availability, pricing, and technical questions get answered there.
2. You receive payment instructions. Three options: PayPal, crypto (ETH / USDC / USDT on Base), or Western Union / MoneyGram.
3. You complete payment and keep your confirmation — for WU/MG that means the MTCN number, for crypto the transaction hash.
4. After verification, the full package is delivered digitally.

For payment: PayPal sends to [email protected] — send a note with the payment and it gets confirmed in the inbox. Crypto goes to 0x078fE079A9440631Bc6AD722D7143dC382b4ea4f on Base, and after sending you email the transaction hash for verification.

One thing worth knowing before you start: because contact is email-only, the whole transaction lives in an inbox. There's no ticket system to check. If you're the kind of buyer who wants order status pages, this will feel unusual.

Who this is for, and who it isn't

It fits organizations where the data can't leave the building: healthcare handling PHI, law firms with privileged communications, government with data-sovereignty requirements, financial institutions. The architecture is what simplifies HIPAA, GDPR, and data-residency review — not because it's certified, but because there's no third-party processor in the path to point at.

It fits anyone running a multi-site operation where connectivity is uneven, because air-gapped operation means a bad WAN link doesn't take the AI down.

It's a poor fit if you want the model updated continuously. You get the weights in the package. If your use case needs current information, you're going to need a retrieval layer you build yourself.

It's a poor fit if you don't have anyone who can run a Docker container. The deployment scripts and the 30-day support window exist to bridge that gap, but at some point a human has to own the box.

The thing I'd check before buying

Two questions, both answerable before you spend anything:

1. Does the local demo's interaction model match how your team actually works? Type a real query into the demo on the page — a contract clause, a patient note, a document classification. If the output shape is wrong for you, the model won't fix that.
2. Can your security team get what they need from the documentation? Ask for the security hardening guide before purchase. If it doesn't exist or isn't detailed, that's your answer about the 30-day support being real or nominal.

Both are checkable in an email. Neither requires a call.

Mentary AI — $299.99 USD, one-time, lifetime license.
Live page with a working local demo: https://reggiebro.github.io/WorkflowAlpha.ai/mentary-ai/
Contact (email only): [email protected]
PayPal: [email protected] · Crypto: 0x078fE079A9440631Bc6AD722D7143dC382b4ea4f (Base) · Western Union / MoneyGram accepted