Your company’s own AI. In your office.
Private AI in your office: the Protea Node, Protea AI with memory, AI cameras, firewall monitoring, free office apps, mail, meetings and phones. Built, run and supported by SciBit.
The Node and its AI
Six parts
Protea Node
A managed AI computer for your office. Local AI runs on site, even offline. Lease the Node or buy it, with a package for your hours.
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Protea AI
A private AI assistant that runs on your own hardware, remembers your work, works offline and hides private details by default before a cloud model sees them.
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Local AI
Local AI models on the Protea Node in your office: fast, private by default, working offline when the internet is down, and idling under 10 W.
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Cloud models
Frontier cloud models through Protea AI: a SciBit-managed key with a weekly allowance and a privacy filter, your own keys, or off. Set per business.
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Protea Agent
Protea Agent keeps every Protea Node current from SciBit’s own signed repository, reports its health, checks service status and backs up offsite.
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Protea Cluster
Protea Cluster pools the spare capacity of many Protea Nodes in SciBit’s datacentre and uses it as one, through one entry point. Built to store nothing.
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Five parts
Protea Office
A free Office alternative: thirteen fast, native apps for documents, spreadsheets, presentations, PDF, photos, video, sound and design. No licence fees.
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Protea OS
A familiar desktop that keeps your data on your machine, with a full app suite and a private AI built in. Free and open source, no licence fees.
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Protea Mail
Business email, calendar, contacts and tasks for 5 to 250 people, hosted by SciBit in South Africa or on your own Protea Node.
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Protea Meet
Video meetings, presentations and online training in the browser, hosted by SciBit in South Africa. Meet, present and teach.
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Protea PBX
A business phone system with extensions, voicemail, softphones and browser call flows: on your Protea Node, in SciBit’s SA datacentre, or both.
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Four parts
Protea Eye
Protea Eye turns your existing security cameras into a smart alarm. AI analyses video on site and produces events; your recorder keeps recording.
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Protea Wall
Protea Wall on the Protea Node monitors your company firewall for breach attempts and audits your internal security, 24/7. In every Node package.
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Protea ID
Single sign-on and in-office authentication on a local directory service hosted on your Protea Node, for businesses without one. Free of charge.
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Protea Storage
The Protea Node as your file server, with offsite backup storage in South Africa and 3-2-1 disaster recovery included. Priced per TB per month.
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Two ways in
Protea Custom
SciBit creates, customises and integrates the Protea systems into your own systems, workflows and policies. Bespoke development, priced by scope.
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Sector briefings
Twenty-minute briefings on what AI is, where it breaks and what it is worth, for accounting practices, insurers, estates, clinical data firms and SMEs.
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