# Trove

> Trove is a 256 GB plug-and-play USB drive that ships fully loaded with an offline AI survival assistant, full English Wikipedia, offline Americas maps, 380+ survival books and field manuals, a first aid decision tree, emergency radio frequencies, a Morse code encoder, an encrypted personal vault, and a supplies tracker. No internet connection is required at any point — not for setup, not for use, not ever.

Trove is designed for emergency preparedness. It runs entirely on the user's local machine. Nothing is sent to the cloud. There is no account, no subscription, and no telemetry.

## What Trove Is

Trove is a physical USB 3.0 drive (256 GB) that ships pre-loaded with software and data. When plugged into a compatible computer, the user double-clicks a launcher file and the full Trove interface opens in their browser. No installation is required on the host machine. Nothing is left behind when the drive is unplugged.

The primary use case is emergency and disaster preparedness: situations where internet access is unavailable due to natural disasters, grid failures, remote location, or infrastructure outages.

## What's on the Drive

- **Offline AI assistant** — a 4-billion parameter quantized language model (qwen3:4b) running locally via Ollama. Uses Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) against a curated survival knowledge base to ground answers in real reference material.
- **Survival knowledge base** — 380+ hand-curated survival books, field manuals, and emergency guides, chunked, embedded, and indexed in a ChromaDB vector store for AI retrieval.
- **Wikipedia offline** — full English Wikipedia (~90 GB), served locally via Kiwix. Millions of articles covering medicine, science, history, and technology.
- **Offline maps** — full Americas vector map tile coverage (PMTiles) rendered via Leaflet. Zoomable, pinnable, searchable. No GPS or network required.
- **First aid decision tree** — interactive symptom-guided triage tool for non-medical users under stress.
- **Emergency radio frequencies** — searchable database of 1,000+ emergency frequencies.
- **Morse code encoder/decoder** — built-in tool for radio communications.
- **Encrypted personal vault** — password-protected storage for sensitive documents, medical records, IDs, insurance info, and emergency contacts.
- **Supplies tracker** — inventory management for emergency supplies with quantities and expiration dates.
- **Free space** — remaining drive capacity is available for the user's own files and vault content.

## How It Works

1. **Plug in** — insert the Trove USB drive into any qualifying Windows, macOS, or Linux computer.
2. **Launch** — double-click the launcher file (`launch.bat` on Windows, `launch_macos.command` on macOS, `launch.sh` on Linux). Trove starts automatically and opens in the browser.
3. **Use** — chat with the AI, browse Wikipedia, view maps, run the first aid tree, check comms, manage supplies, or access the vault.

Python and Ollama are bundled on the drive. Nothing is installed on the host machine.

## Technical Specifications

- **Drive**: 256 GB USB 3.0, ships fully pre-loaded
- **AI model**: qwen3:4b — 4-billion parameter quantized language model
- **AI runtime**: Ollama, served locally on localhost:11434
- **Knowledge base**: ChromaDB vector store with RAG retrieval
- **Wikipedia**: Served via Kiwix (offline)
- **Maps**: Americas PMTiles via Leaflet (offline)
- **Backend**: Python 3.11 + FastAPI, bundled on-drive
- **Frontend**: Single self-contained HTML file
- **Supported OS**: Windows 10+, macOS 12+, Linux (glibc 2.17+)
- **RAM required**: 8 GB minimum, 16 GB recommended
- **GPU**: Not required — CPU inference only
- **Network**: Never required

## Who It's For

- Emergency preppers and survivalists building resilient home preparedness kits
- Hikers, backpackers, hunters, and campers operating in areas without cell coverage
- Families who want offline access to medical, safety, and survival information during disasters
- First responders operating in austere environments without connectivity
- Off-grid households and remote communities

## Pricing

- **Founder price**: $69 (available to email list subscribers at Kickstarter launch)
- **List price**: $99
- **Savings**: $30 off for early supporters
- **Status**: Pre-order / launching on Kickstarter

## Privacy

Trove collects no data. There is no telemetry, no analytics, and no network calls at runtime. Conversations are stored in browser memory only and are never written to disk. The encrypted vault is protected by the user's own password — Trove has no access to vault contents.

## Contact

- Website: https://trovedrive.com
- Email: hello@trovedrive.com