Boone on CampOS · A business box you own

A whole business,
on a box you own.

Boone on CampOS is a complete private system: the open-source suite runs your day-to-day — office, files, books, CRM, and a full creative studio — and Boone, your AI guide, reads your own documents and answers in plain language, cited to the page. No subscriptions. Your data never leaves the building.

$0/mo forever In development · first run gets first price Nothing leaves the building
Every wild journey needs a guide · ThirdShift R&D
MILE 1

One box. Your whole shop.

The CampOS suite is open-source and runs entirely on your hardware — with Boone as the one place you ask across all of it. Hover any tile for why we chose it.

Retires Microsoft 365, Dropbox, QuickBooks, Salesforce, Calendly, 1Password, Adobe Creative Cloud, Hootsuite — and the AI subscription.

What is what — CampOS, Boone, and the box

CampOS is the house — the operating system and the whole suite: office, files, books, CRM, creative studio. Boone lives in it — the AI guide who reads your documents, teaches the tools, and talks. He is not sold separately; he comes with the house, and his brain sizes itself to whatever hardware you run. The box is the house pre-built on proven ground — our tested hardware with everything installed, warrantied, and supported.

Buy the box
You bring an outlet. Full-size Boone, zero setup, warranty, signed updates, a person who answers email. From $2,399 — money for time, said plainly.
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Software Edition
Already own a capable machine? The whole CampOS + Boone stack on your hardware, $139.99 (beta first). Boone auto-sizes to your gear and tells you the truth about it — off the certified list, expect some friction, and we say so.
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Build the reference
Our exact tested config, walked end to end — box-grade result at parts cost (~$1,500–1,800) with your hands. The guide is the box team’s own runbook.
The build →

Whatever you run him on, he sets himself up

How he sizes himself to your hardware

First boot, Boone reads your hardware and picks the right size brain for it — and if your machine can’t run something well, he says so instead of pretending. The setup wizard walks you to a first win in minutes, not manuals. Turn on voice and the mic check tunes him to your actual mic and your actual room — or skip it; voice stays off unless you ask. Feed him your equipment manuals and he teaches the tools you already own. The point: the setup knowledge lives in the box, not in your head.

Jailbreak the SaaS prison

MILE 2

Every subscription is a cell with the door open — until the bill comes.

Tally what you rent today. Then own it once, on a box in your shop, and serve no one’s sentence but your own.

Pick a few — we’ll tally the year.

Deliberately conservative floor prices — your real bill is probably higher. The Software Edition is $139.99 once; updates optional at $34.99/yr, and the box stays fully usable without them.

The part nobody else can do

Boone teaches the tools, too.

The guide covers every tool on the box

Every app above lands on the box with its maker’s own manual loaded in right beside your documents. So the free software that replaces your subscriptions comes with a guide who’s actually read the book — ask “how do I cut the boring part out of my video?” and the answer comes from Kdenlive’s own pages, cited, offline.

And you never have to learn an app’s own jargon to get started. Say the job in plain words — “cover up a smudge in this photo”, “put my shop name at the start of the video” — and Boone hands you the right tool and the steps to match. A subscription replaces your software. A guide who read every manual replaces the learning curve.

Status you can read from across the room

The camp is how the box talks.

the fire
the cairn
the dock
the woodpile
the lanterns
Mouse over anything glowing — the games open on a click.

No dashboards, no notification badges — the scene IS the status. A blue jay named Jack turns up when something new needs a decision; weather follows your real sky if you tell it your zip. On the box this drops down over your desktop exactly like it just did here.

Fishing, splitting and the cairn are playable right here, in their day-off form — on the box they’re wired to the machine underneath. The firepit, the lanterns, and a fair bit more live at camp too. We’re not going to spoil it.

You own the whole box — not just a login

He talks. And the box keeps its promises.

Voice, all on-box: push-to-talk or say “Hey Boone” — your words never leave the building, a light shows whenever the mic is live, one tap mutes it, and it’s off unless you turn it on. His voice is ours outright — built from openly licensed parts, no cloned humans, hear it yourself.

And the boring promises are tested like the exciting ones: backups aren’t real until you’ve restored one — we restore-test ours. A tampered update gets refused before it touches the disk; a broken one rolls itself back. All measured, all dated, on the receipts page.

Trail log · measured 2026-07-09
7.7 sMedian full cited answer under an ugly 40-file load
6 / 6Memory paths held — never stores without your yes
16 t/sRuns on your hardware too — measured on a chip we never tuned
2 / 2Backup restore-tested both paths — came back identical
60–62°Half an hour flat out, never throttled
0 / 41Never silently saved a wrong number off a document — every claim on the receipts

A real Linux computer underneath. No lock-in.

What that means in practice
  • It's Ubuntu, not a walled garden. Open a terminal, install your own apps, plug in any printer or drive. Boone sits beside your computer — it never replaces it, and you can ignore it entirely and still have a full Linux box.
  • Your data and your model both stay on the box. No telemetry, no phone-home. Pull the network cable and Boone still answers.
  • Runs on standard GPUs. The stack isn't tied to our card — our B60 build is just the value sweet spot, not a gate.
  • Yours to keep and to change. The suite is open-source and there's no subscription to expire. Modify your box freely — we just can't support what you change.

Remote access and updates are opt-in and run over your own private channel — never a backdoor, never required.

New — and measured before we said a word

MILE 3

Boone reads the paper, too.

Photograph an invoice, a motor nameplate, a crumpled receipt — Boone transcribes it with two readers that fail differently: a vision model and a plain deterministic OCR engine. Where they agree, you get the value. Where they don’t — and on every dollar amount and every rating — it comes to you flagged, with the photo crop right beside the number. You confirm it; then it’s a fact Boone can cite.

Across our 41-image test set — glare-shot nameplates, 1936 typewriter invoices, dashboard phone photos, and 30 documents built specifically to fool it — zero wrong high-risk numbers were ever committed silently. Every real misread surfaced as a flag. A model’s own confidence never gets a vote: we measured it rating every field “high” while some were wrong, so the flags come from evidence, not self-esteem.

The reading engine is box-proven today; the photograph-to-confirm flow ships with CampOS. And what it can’t catch, we keep on a written ledger instead of pretending. Think you’d catch the misread yourself? Try. →

The whole business, end to end

Run it, make it, take it to market.

Books, studio, social — the full loop

Books, files, scheduling and CRM keep the shop running; the creative studio and a social workflow help you make and publish the work — and Boone sits across all of it, answering from your own documents and drafting the next thing. One box you own, no subscriptions — and it all works with the network cable unplugged.

Boone beside the finished cairn at night, lantern lit
BASECAMP

Build your unit

Built to order. Memory and storage move with the market, so we lock those into your quote the day we build — at cost, no markup.

Model capability (GPU)
Memory · market rate
Storage · market rate
Base unit — built, set up, supported (Arc B60 24GB)$2,399
32GB memory + 1TB SSDat cost · billed at build
From$2,399 + memory & storage

No markup on memory or storage — we pass those volatile parts through at cost (DDR5 is spiking industry-wide this year), billed at the actual market price the day we build, with the receipt: if prices drop, so does your bill. A 50% deposit reserves your build and buys your core parts; the balance is due when it's built, tested, and ready to ship — and it's fully refundable until we buy your parts.

Three ways to get there

In development — not yet for sale. When it ships, three ways to own it: built for you, bring your own box, or DIY — same CampOS stack either way.

Done for you

A built unit

We build, configure, and support it. From $2,399 (+ memory & storage at cost). Boots to ready — the hard Arc bring-up is done.

Bring your own box

CampOS Software Edition

Install the whole CampOS + Boone stack on hardware you already own. $139.99 — about one month of the subscriptions it replaces, and you own it forever.

First year of updates included; the latest build after that is an optional $34.99 — what you bought keeps working forever either way.

Build guide · On Gumroad

Build the box yourself

The B60 guide walks the exact OcuLink/Arc bring-up — the DIY path to a CampOS box for ~$1,500–1,800. $14.99 · complete set $34.99.

Boone the bear and Marlow the marmot, friends, side by side at dusk

Boone's got a friend from the plant — Marlow the marmot. Keep an eye out: he stops by camp some evenings to fish.

Reserve your Boone pre-order

Boone on CampOS is in active development — not yet for sale, so there's nothing to pay now. Reserve a pre-order (or just say hello) and we'll reach out when we're ready for the first run, with the option to put down a deposit then. Your data stays in the building, on hardware you own.

Reserve a pre-orderNo payment now · first run gets first price

or just say hello — [email protected]