No ownership
Rent compute, rent storage, lose the IP and the data that made you valuable.
The flagship sovereign program for building and owning your own AI. Rolling admissions, monthly sprints, and hardware you own outright.
Building on someone else's cloud gives you no defensible IP, costs that grow with usage, and data that leaves your control. Sovereign AI runs on hardware you own.
Rent compute, rent storage, lose the IP and the data that made you valuable.
Per-token billing turns every unit of growth into a cost against you.
When the API changes, prices rise, or the region goes offline, your business stops.
The core institution. Rolling admissions, monthly sprints, and two pathways. Applications reviewed continuously.
Build a sovereign AI company. You run customer discovery, set pricing, and ship a working product validated by real buyers.
Become the person who deploys and hardens sovereign AI. Bare-metal setup, security, edge clusters, and teaching others.
Apply any time. On acceptance you onboard right away, then enter the next sprint.
Six-week Mission Sprints start the first Monday of each month. Fast movers go ahead; others roll into the next pulse with no penalty.
Masterclasses (Tue and Thu), a working review ("The Board" on Wed), on-demand clinics, and a 24/7 async lab.
Self-hosted messaging, sandboxed agents, a human kill switch, and a tamper-evident, hash-chained audit ledger.
Customer discovery and sovereign systems engineering, tracked together. Graduation is what you build and prove, not attendance.
| Milestone | Customer discovery | Pathway A, Innovator | Pathway B, Trainer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. Hypothesis mapping | Break your venture into ~30 testable assumptions | Set up workspace; map problem and buyer | Flash hardware; configure air-gap isolation |
| 2. Discovery, part 1 | 10 interviews; extract real pain | Ingest transcripts locally; find patterns | Deploy local models; verify zero outbound traffic |
| 3. Patterns | 10 more interviews; drop invalid assumptions | Set pricing; test willingness to pay | Sandbox tools; isolate code execution |
| 4. Governance | Final 10 interviews; lock in validation | Air-gapped search over your documents | Encryption and hash-chained audit logs |
| 5. Commercial | Secure 2+ signed pilots or LOIs | Run agent workflows for intake and onboarding | Multi-agent systems with enforced access rules |
| 6. Inaugural | Assemble validated model and architecture | Demo your venture live on your node | Run a security audit; contribute upstream code |
Start free. Own hardware when you're ready. Workspace and hardware tiers can be bought directly; the program track (cohort, clinics, Mission Sprints) requires passing the application review.
| Tier | Price | What you get | Get started |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sovereign Scout | Free | Core repo and docs, curated datasets, public community | Apply |
| Sovereign Practitioner | $49/mo or $490/yr — two months free | A provisioned, isolated tenant on an air-gapped node with a hash-chained audit trail, metered inference, model preloading and durable jobs. Shares the model runtime with other members on the same node. | Buy |
| Studio Edition | $1,999 Installments: 2 × $999.50 or 4 × $499.75 — 0% interest; the payments total the same $1,999.00. | Jetson Orin Nano (67 TOPS), 512GB NVMe, pre-flashed, CSAO track. Your own dedicated node. | Buy |
| Enterprise Edition | $5,499 Installments: 2 × $2,749.50 or 4 × $1,374.75 — 0% interest; the payments total the same $5,499.00. | Jetson AGX Orin (275 TOPS), 1TB NVMe, bare-metal, CSSA pathway. Your own dedicated node. | Buy |
| Sovereign Frontier | $8,999 Installments: 2 × $4,499.50 or 4 × $2,249.75 — 0% interest; the payments total the same $8,999.00. | Jetson AGX Thor (128GB), bare-metal kernel engineering, TensorRT-LLM. Your own dedicated node. | Buy |
| Institutional License | From $25k/yr | On-prem clusters, white-label platform and curricula, dedicated team | Contact |
Installment plans are available on every Edition tier above: 2 or 4 monthly payments, 0% interest, and the payments total exactly the one-time price. A plan is a schedule, not a discount — there is no fee and no credit check.
The program track — cohort, clinics and Mission Sprints — is separate from these tiers and requires passing the application review. Buying a tier does not admit you to it.
Buyable on their own, at any tier. No application needed.
| Add-on | Price | What it is | Get started |
|---|---|---|---|
| Start Today Pass | $99 | 24-hour expedited review plus priority compute | Buy |
| Deliverable Sprint | $149 | A guided 48-hour build with an NGARi engineer on your own hardware | Buy |
| Sprint — Three Deliverables | $499 | Three guided sprints | Buy |
| Team Week | $999 | Sprint plus one month of the full C-Suite | Buy |
| API credits | From $1 | Prepaid inference at $2.00 per million tokens, on your own node | Buy |
Program tuition includes curriculum, clinics, and on hardware tiers, permanent ownership.
Certificates are easy to forge. NGARi Corps credentials are anchored to the hardware that earned them.
Pathway A: 30 validated interviews, an air-gapped workflow on your node, and a signed customer commitment.
Pathway B: a security audit, a maintained multi-node cluster, an upstream code contribution, and a workshop you lead.
On graduation your node signs a claim tied to its fingerprint and the software release hash. Published to a public registry.
Employers and investors can confirm, with a single check, that the operative actually compiled, deployed, and audited a sovereign system.
Every credential maps to named competencies at named levels, and each level to the evidence that proves it — published as the workforce competency framework, with a requirements block you can attach to a job title.
NGARi Corps is the program. The Sovereign Stack Challenge is a special program inside it.
An evergreen, rolling-admission program. Two pathways, monthly sprints, and hardware you own. This is the institution.
A focused 30-day developer sprint on the open NGARi stack, run inside Corps. Free to enter, one grand prize per cycle.
A NGARi Corps program. Free, 30 days, three tracks. One rule: it has to run with zero outbound calls. Scored on a 100-point rubric and verified in a sandbox.
Port the kernel to new hardware and harden its isolation and key handling.
Learn moreShip a multi-agent workflow that automates real work with no cloud calls.
Learn moreBuild an open dataset for an underserved vertical, formatted for local fine-tuning.
Learn moreContribution is a graduation requirement across the program. Your work sharpens the open stack for everyone.
Contribute to the open-source kernel, Apache 2.0.
Publish curated datasets to the open repository.
Graduates lead local chapters, host community compute nodes, and earn recurring revenue shares on what they route.
Newark, Delaware (STAR Campus), Gaborone, Botswana, and partner HBCU engineering labs. Time-sliced, zero-trust access.
Chapter custodians host clusters as public compute. In constrained regions, local nodes keep mission-critical AI working offline.
Ambassadors earn 15-25% recurring shares on memberships, hardware, and enterprise contracts routed through their chapter.
Regionally aligned sovereign compute where bandwidth and power are limited.
NGARi Corps is the flagship program, open year-round with rolling admissions. The Sovereign Stack Challenge is a special program within Corps: a focused, free 30-day developer sprint with a prize. Entering the Challenge is a path into the program.
Yes. On Studio, Enterprise, and Frontier tiers you receive a physical node, pre-flashed and yours outright. On free and Practitioner tiers you can earn credit toward up to 50% of a Studio node.
No. Admissions are rolling, and execution runs in six-week sprints that start the first Monday of each month. You can pause and resume without penalty.
Never. Tuition is non-dilutive at every tier.
Yes. Pathway A is built for domain specialists. You get ready-made tooling and a graphical interface, so you can run local models without compiling anything.
Students use university and tech-transfer budgets; veterans and displaced workers can use workforce training grants; corporate teams expense Enterprise Edition through L&D and security budgets.
Join NGARi Corps, or start with the free 30-day Sovereign Stack Challenge.