Pilot units shipping in 30 days · Demo Q3 2026

The cloud just
became a liability.

Everything in one box: AI, files, network, security cameras — all on-site, your data never leaves your building. Replaces Microsoft 365, Dropbox, your router, and AI subscriptions. Costs less than what your cyber insurance just went up.

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$540M+

underwritten by our CFO at JPM

6 yrs

DoD CUI infra · CEO

Privacy Bar Raiser

CPO, ex-Amazon

67 TOPS NPU

8× PoE++ · 720W

2× M.2 NVMe

SFP+ 10G WAN

Matter / Thread

Specs reflect current prototype.

Under the hood · how it runs

Every cloud bill, replaced.

The marquee isn't aspirational. Each line below runs locally on Droplet today — Jetson Orin Nano for AI inference, a Raspberry Pi 5 with custom OpenWrt for routing, all orchestrated by 56 tools the chatbot can call.

Microsoft 365 Copilot

→

Local LLM agent

Ollama + ReAct agent loop with 56 MCP tools, running on the Jetson Orin Nano. Your chatbot, your model, your data.

Dropbox Business

→

Nextcloud + file indexer

Nextcloud 29 over WebDAV, with a real-time file indexer that pushes changes through MQTT and pgvector for semantic search.

Cisco Meraki

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Router & POE Switch Integrated

WiFi 6 access point, DHCP, VLAN isolation, firewall zones. Configured by chatbot, not console.

ChatGPT API

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AI gateway (LiteLLM)

Routes model calls to local Ollama by default; can fall back to Anthropic or OpenAI with your own API keys when you choose to.

Google Workspace

→

Local productivity stack

Nextcloud calendar, reminders, and document collaboration over WebDAV — no Google account, no third-party data processor.

Backblaze

→

Local persistent storage

Nextcloud-backed storage with on-device indexing and pgvector embeddings, so archive search works without uploading anything.

NordLayer

→

WireGuard VPN

WireGuard server runs on the router itself. Add peers and download QR-code client configs from the chatbot.

Verkada

→

Frigate NVR

Frigate with TensorRT GPU detection, ONVIF/RTSP camera auto-discovery, on a dedicated VLAN. Footage never touches the internet.

pfSense

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OpenWrt firewall

Firewall zones, NAT, port forwarding, and layer-3 VLAN isolation. All rules described in plain English to the chatbot.

One box. Zero cloud.
Half the bill.

Microsoft 365 + Copilot (email + Office + Teams + OneDrive + AI assistant)

$54/seat/mo

Dropbox Business (file sync + sharing + admin controls)

$24/seat/mo

Cisco Meraki networking (router + switch + APs + licenses + MSP)

$200+/mo

Cloud backup (Backblaze etc. — offsite copy + ransomware recovery)

$80/mo

ChatGPT / Claude API (LLM inference + document Q&A + drafting)

$200+/mo

Annual breach-insurance hike (premium increase after any incident)

+15–30%/yr

↓

Droplet · Pro tier

$499 /mo

3-yr lease · all-in

Hardware refresh, security patches, model updates, and quarterly compliance audit included. Storage modules carry across upgrades — your data never moves.

Stack savings~50%

Cloud calls0

How it works · for your firm

Plug it in by lunch.

Cancel the stack by Friday.

01

Pilot in 30 days

We ship one Droplet to your office. Power, one uplink, done — your team (or your existing IT contact) has it running by lunch. No firewall reconfig, no AD wrestling, no migration project.

02

Configure in plain English

VLANs, firewall rules, badge access, document permissions — all configured in plain English through the built-in chatbot. The local AI continuously looks through your firm’s flow and optimizes it. No MSP, no in-house IT admin, no ticket — that’s $1,500–$3,000/mo of managed services or ~$130K/yr of fully-loaded headcount, gone.

03

Cancel the cloud stack

Microsoft 365 Copilot, Dropbox, Cisco Meraki, ChatGPT API, Backblaze — turn them off. The monthly bill drops ~50%. Your insurer’s breach questionnaire finally gets the answer they actually want.

3-year lease includes hardware refresh, security patches, model updates, and a quarterly compliance posture review. Storage modules carry across upgrades — your data never moves.

IT operations · what disappears

No outsourced IT. No in-house admin.

What you pay today vs. what you'd pay with us →

Today

$1,500–3,000/mo

or ~$90 to $130K/yr to hire your own IT admin

What you pay for

Outsourced IT or in-house admin. Plus separate cloud bills for Microsoft 365, Dropbox, Meraki, backup, and AI subscriptions.

Where your data lives

In someone else's cloud.

If you get breached

Your cyber insurance reprices you. Premiums climb.

Included in the price

Just labor. Hardware, refreshes, and cloud bills are extra.

With Droplet

$499/mo

What you pay for

One box: a Microsoft 365 alternative, Dropbox alternative, your router, firewall, security cameras, and on-site AI — all in.

Where your data lives

On your premises. Nothing leaves the building.

If you get breached

Cloud surface gone. Insurance pressure drops.

Included in the price

Hardware refresh, security patches, model updates, and quarterly compliance review.

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Why now · our opening

Every cloud breach
is an inbound sales call.

Every breach in the news drives another regulated SMB — law, healthcare, defense, real estate — to look for an off-cloud option. Cyber insurance is repricing them either way. We're the door. Pilots close in days, not quarters.

Traction

Working hardware.
Pilots signed.

Validated

Working prototype

Pi 5 + Jetson Orin + managed PoE switch, dogfooded daily. Full software stack live end-to-end.

Active

2 + 2 pilots

Active: photo studio, privacy-first dealership. In pipeline: RE remodeling, commercial RE lender (post-breach).

Pulling

CMMC + HIPAA

Inbound from DoD contractors and HIPAA-covered providers. Zero paid acquisition.

Team

Three founders. Three sides
of the same problem.

CEO · hardware

Stefan Cruceru

Built secure infra at SCE — CCTV, access control, networking across substations& regulated agencies
Led international CCTV rollouts across multiple countries for premium retail and logistics
DoD CUI cleared · UAS detection + radar integration with custom API aggregation
Architects Droplet’s hardware stack · v0 live, v1 shipping in 30 days

CPO · software

Romain Jouffret

Sr. SDE at Amazon · M.Eng EPITA
Privacy Bar Raiser at Amazon — red-teamed data handling org-wide
Cut ECS errors from 2,000+/day to near zero at Amazon
98% reliability serverless ingestion at Kanopy · 150% YoY throughput

CFO · business

Samantha Rubinchik

$540M+ underwritten in 11 CRE deals at JPMorgan — incl. $1.0B regional mall, $175M LA office
Managed $2.5B / 60-client Treasury Sales book through the SVB crisis
Mercedes-Benz US — $250M campus site · sub-1% variance across ~1,000 line items
Top 10 in JPMorgan Commercial Bank Innovation Comp · builds the model

For investors

Self-funded to here.
Ready to scale.

Validated prototype. 2 active pilots, 2 more in progress. Custom PCB next. Building production tooling, shipping pilot units in 30 days, and standing up the compliance documentation pack.

Email for more Info →

Stefan Cruceru · CEO · scruceru@warp-lab.ai

The cloud justbecame a liability.