PHNTM One™, at a glance.

Your own AI assistant, on your desk. Private local chat, documents, notes and voice, with no required subscription for local use.

ONE-PAGE FACT SHEET

A quick introduction to PHNTM One, its hardware, useful workflows and trade-offs. Download it to read or attach to an email.

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In one sentence

PHNTM One is a $799 Raspberry Pi 5 touchscreen appliance for local chat, memory, Notes, voice and questions about your own documents.

A paragraph you can use

Built by Jacob DeCamp at DeCampLabs, PHNTM One combines a Raspberry Pi 5 with 8 GB RAM, a 256 GB microSD card and a 10.1-inch 1920×1200 touchscreen. In Private mode, chat, memory search, transcription and speech run on-device. Notes preserves originals separately from AI drafts. Document answers can include file/page references when retrieved passages support them. Optional cloud answers and connected accounts have separate network paths. The small local model is slower and less capable than frontier services, and AI/OCR can make mistakes.

Facts at a glance

• Price: $799 USD, plus applicable tax. No required subscription for local use. Purchases are made to order and ship worldwide (standard international shipping is DAP; an inclusive Italy DDP offer applies only where explicitly shown at checkout; orders to EU countries are currently pre-orders that ship once EU compliance is complete); consult ordering and buying terms.
• Hardware: Raspberry Pi 5, 8 GB RAM, 256 GB microSD card, 10.1-inch 1920×1200 touchscreen, active cooling and speaker.
• Kit: USB microphone, mini keyboard with touchpad, 27 W power supply (100–240 V, US plug); it plugs into the display, which powers the Raspberry Pi 5 (CE-marked plug adapter on international orders except the UK and Brazil), printed manual booklet and unit serial card. See full specifications.
• Local model: Gemma 3 4B Q4_K_M through Ollama, with an 8K context budget in the current manual.
• Founder: Jacob DeCamp, DeCampLabs. This is my commercial product.

Education and projects

PHNTM Mentor brings together Tutor practice and the Parent view. PHNTM Missions offers step-by-step projects with recorded evidence. These are review-build capabilities with ongoing testing. Project guidance is not a safety certification.

Price and availability

$799 USD plus applicable tax. Current batch: 10 units. Made to order and shipped within 6–8 weeks after payment (EU orders: pre-order, no ship date yet); carrier transit is additional. Free US shipping; international shipping, duties and taxes have separate terms. Check current availability and ordering terms.

One useful workflow

Record a project note, review the transcript and keep the original. Ask for a separate cleanup or project-checkpoint draft. Import a reference PDF through PHNTM Drop on your local network, then ask about it and check the cited file and page. Explicitly save a useful detail as a memory for later. Notes dictation supports up to 5 minutes; longer generated drafts can take several minutes.

Private means a specific boundary

The model, memory search, transcription and speech run locally in Private mode. Local chat needs no cloud AI account. A paired phone browser communicates across the LAN. Optional Claude answers send context to the provider. Telegram, if connected, carries messages through Telegram in every mode. Connected email and calendar have their own data paths; OS networking and owner-initiated updates are separate again.

Measured response times

In an October 30 review-unit test, eight answers in a warm conversation had medians of 19 seconds to first words and 28 seconds to the complete answer. The first uncached question took 87 and 94 seconds respectively. These are dated measurements, not a performance guarantee. Read the sample and conditions.

Limits worth including

The model can be confidently wrong. OCR can miss text; a citation helps you inspect the source, but does not guarantee the answer. An idle model can be released and later reloaded, making the next answer slower. Reminders depend on trustworthy time, especially after offline power loss. Response-time and reliability improvements are ongoing. A shipped unit is not automatically evidence of every later development change. The complete application is not advertised as open source; model and component licences are separate.

Pictures and video, with their provenance

These assets may be used when covering PHNTM One with credit “PHNTM” or “phntmcore.com”. Keep the captions and demonstration notes with the media. Product photographs are not performance measurements.

• October 9 device photographs: dashboard, standby screen and Notes. Notes shows a fictional example project.
• October 2 device photographs: desk view and Home screen detail, each 2048×1536. Optional Claude and Telegram are shown enabled.
• September product photography: studio, front, angle, desk, keyboard and kit.
• Build desk: wide and close.
• Narrated real-device demonstration: A place for your next idea, 2 minutes 31 seconds. Fictional desk-project workflow, edited native screen captures, synthetic narration and original music. Waiting trimmed; not a speed benchmark. Source labels and audio credits accompany the film.
• Real touchscreen walkthrough: 30-second edited recording. Pauses trimmed; typing plays at 3× where labelled. It is not an inference-speed benchmark.
• Earlier prototype: device photograph and 21-second unedited video, August 2026.
• Creative brand film: view with its disclosure. AI-created illustration, not a record of device behavior.
• Logos: wordmark and symbol.

Technical angles to examine

The build story covers document workers sharing RAM with inference, cancellation that cleans up the worker group, saving originals before AI revisions, honest failure reporting and unverified clocks. The orb gets the photograph. The resource budget does the work.

Owner manual · Dated testing evidence · Compare approaches · Changes · About the builder

For reviewers and interviewers

For review-unit availability, interviews and hands-on questions, contact Jacob DeCamp, founder of DeCampLabs in Wichita, Kansas: [email protected]. I work in hydraulics sales and build PHNTM One alongside my day job. I assemble the units and handle support myself.

Product support: [email protected].