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Built by a Disabled U.S. Army Counter Intelligence Agent & Combat Veteran

Offline AI · Homesteading & Survival

Your survival library.
Offline. And it answers back.

Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Survival.

Steadwise pairs a private, on-device AI with 53 domains of homesteading and survival knowledge — and every answer cites the exact chapter. It runs with no internet, uploads nothing to anyone, and never tracks you. One purchase runs on your desktop and your iPhone.

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Seamless ~8s loop, split scene: (left) hands using the Steadwise iOS app in real time; (right) the desktop app open on a rugged laptop in an austere, off-grid setting (truck tailgate / cabin / field at dusk). Generate in ComfyUI — see HERO_BANNER_VIDEO_RESEARCH_PROMPT.md.
100% offline
Cites its sources
Pay once — own it forever
Never tracked
53
Knowledge domains
0
Internet required
2
Platforms, one price
100%
On your hardware
Steadwise's founder, center, in Baghdad during Operation Iraqi Freedom
Our founder (center), Baghdad, Iraq — Operation Iraqi Freedom. Teammates' faces blurred for their privacy.
About

Built by a Disabled U.S. Army Counter Intelligence Agent & Combat Veteran

U.S. ArmyCounter Intelligence AgentOperation Iraqi FreedomDisabled Veteran

Steadwise is built by a Disabled U.S. Army Counter Intelligence Agent & Combat Veteran who served during Operation Iraqi Freedom.

He built Steadwise for the people he trusts most: families who intend to take care of their own when the lights go out. It's made to put real, verifiable knowledge back in your hands — on hardware you own, with no one else in the loop.

For those who value Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Survival.

The problem

When the grid blinks, your knowledge shouldn't vanish

Your recipes, manuals, and how-tos live on someone else's servers. The day the cell tower goes quiet — the kid is bleeding, the canner is venting wrong, the well pump is making a noise — the answer is somewhere else entirely. Steadwise puts it back in the room, on a device you own, in plain English you can verify.

From the city to the homestead

Get out. Dig in. Thrive.

Steadwise isn't just a bug-out app. It's the knowledge to leave, the knowledge to build, and the knowledge to live well once you're there.

1

Get out

Bug-out routes, load-outs and rally points. Offline maps and land navigation when GPS dies. Radio comms when the towers go quiet. The plan that moves your family out of the city clean — because you built it before you needed it.

Bug-out · Maps · Navigation · Comms
2

Dig in

Water you can trust, from well to rain barrel. Shelter you can build and heat. Power you can generate — size the solar array, wire the battery bank, keep the generator alive. Treat the wound when the ER is sixty miles away. Hold the property line.

Water · Shelter · Power · Medical · Security
3

Thrive

Grow your own food — what to plant for your region, when to plant it, how to nurture it, when to harvest, and how to preserve every jar of it. Raise livestock. Keep your children learning with a complete K-12 classical education. Defend what you've built — and live well, not just alive.

Crops · Livestock · Education · Defense

53 domains. One answer engine. Zero internet required.

What it does

A reference that thinks — not a folder of PDFs

A real AI — on your device

Steadwise carries its own AI model — the same kind of large language model behind the big-name chatbots, but running entirely on your computer or phone, with no internet. Ask in plain English; it finds the real chapter, explains it in plain words, and links the source so you can check every answer yourself.

On-device · Cites its sources

53 domains, deep

Water, food preservation, livestock, herbalism, medical first-aid, energy, navigation, comms, security and more — real homesteading depth, not just bug-out tactics.

Public-domain · Audit-clean

Tools, not just chat

Working calculators where an LLM is weak: canning times, solar bank sizing, ballistics, reloading data, and offline maps.

Mini-app library

It stays on your device. Period.

The AI, the search, and the whole library run on your own computer or phone. Steadwise never uploads your questions — or any information about you — to any server, and you are never tracked by any company or any government. Unplug from the internet for good and it still works.

No accounts · No cloud · No tracking

Desktop + iPhone

Steadwise runs where you need it — a Windows desktop powerhouse at home, and a field-ready iPhone & iPad version. Same library, same AI, same cited answers on both.

Two platforms

Bring your own videos

Import your own how-to videos and docs. Steadwise transcribes, indexes, and lets you watch them offline — or ask the AI about what's inside.

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Point your camera at it

Is this plant safe? What left this track? Which fitting is this? Snap a photo and Steadwise identifies it against your library — and you can photograph pages from your own books to pull them into your library the same way.

Identify · Ingest · On your device

Built around your plan

Load your bug-out routes, shelter specs, med lists and family plan. Steadwise folds your material into its answers — so it's not generic advice, it's your family's playbook for your land.

Your family · Your land · Your plan

Your business is nobody else’s business

Everything stays on your device. Steadwise never uploads your questions or your information to any server, and you are never tracked by any government or private company — ever.

Browse all 53 knowledge domains →
Your library, your rules

Even your own videos — indexed, searchable, offline

Drop in the videos you trust — your recordings, your field footage, content you have the right to use. Steadwise turns them into part of your AI's brain and keeps them playable when the internet is gone.

1

Import

Add your videos, audio, and PDFs to your Steadwise library folder.

2

Auto-transcribe

On-device speech-to-text turns every video into searchable text — privately, no upload.

3

Indexed into your AI

The transcript is embedded into Steadwise's retrieval, right alongside the 53 domains.

4

Watch or ask

Play it back offline — or ask a question and Steadwise answers and cites the exact moment in your video.

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Bring-your-own-video demo
Short screen-capture loop: drop in a video → transcript appears → user asks a question → Steadwise answers and jumps the player to the cited timestamp.
Grid-down ready. When the well-pump teardown you saved is the only thing that matters, you can still watch it — or just ask Steadwise, and it points you to the timestamp. Your content, your rights, your device.
One purchase, both apps

The same Steadwise on your desk and in your pack

Desktop

Windows 10/11. The full library, the larger AI model, every mini-app — on the machine you already own. macOS & Linux on the roadmap.

iPhone & iPad

A pocket-sized Steadwise with an on-device AI, your core library, and bring-your-own packs you download once and keep — built for the field.

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Phone + laptop in-app footage
Side-by-side device frames: an iPhone running Steadwise next to a laptop showing the desktop app — same question, cited answer on both.
At home. In the field.

Steadwise for Windows desktop and for iPhone & iPad — each sold for its platform, both with a pay-once ownership option.

Optional add-ons & plugins

Make it yours — download only what you need

Steadwise ships lean and works offline out of the box. Add the packs that fit your life as optional, one-tap downloads — take what you want, leave the rest.

Faith & Devotional

An optional offline library of scripture, daily devotionals, prayers, and study helps — complete books, a year of daily readings and study guides, all searchable and cited by the AI like every other domain. For households that draw strength from their faith. Opt-in, never forced.

Optional download · Opt-in

Offline maps by region

Topographic, road and terrain maps for your state or region — pinch, pan and plan with zero signal, on the desktop and in the field on your phone.

Optional download

Expert video courses

Real practitioners — butchering, canning, off-grid solar — from trusted homesteading creators, licensed into Steadwise. Every course arrives transcribed, indexed and citable: ask a question and jump to the exact moment it’s answered, offline.

Coming soon

Illustrated packs

Full-resolution diagrams, extra angles and photo galleries for any domain — beyond the generous illustrated set that already ships in the base.

Optional download
Provenance you can audit

Built from sources that stood the test of time

Steadwise's library isn't scraped off the internet. It's drawn from the most battle-tested public-domain references America has produced — then authored into illustrated chapters, indexed, and wired to an AI that cites the exact chapter behind every answer.

U.S. Army Field ManualsUSDANRCSUSACENOAAUSGSNASAEPANIHDOELibrary of CongressPre-1929 trade classics

Every source is documented and commercially clean — no pirated PDFs, no murky rights, nothing that vanishes when a lawyer sends a letter. And when you add your own books, videos and notes, they join the library and get cited the same way.

Built on public-domain U.S. government works. Steadwise is independent and not endorsed by any government agency.

Why Steadwise

The survival AI that shows its work

Most survival apps hand you static PDFs — or a chatbot that answers from a black box. When you're betting on the answer, Steadwise does the thing that matters: it shows you exactly where the answer came from.

A typical survival chatbot
Steadwise
Trust the answer
Answers from the model alone — no sources shown
Cites the exact chapter — read it, verify it
Breadth
Survival tips; light on homesteading
53 domains incl. deep homesteading
Tools
Chat, maybe maps
Canning, solar, ballistics, reloading, maps
Your own videos
Not supported
Import, transcribe, index & cite — offline
Pay & own
Ongoing subscription
Pay-once ownership — it's yours, forever
The 1776 offer

Try everything free for 30 days. Then own it for $76.

Full access on day one — no card, no auto-charge, nothing to cancel. When the trial ends you keep the whole library, readable free, forever. If Steadwise earned its place, one purchase unlocks the full software for life. One price. No subscriptions. Ever.

Free mode
$0 forever

After your 30 days, this is yours for good — no card, no expiry:

Includes
The entire 53-domain library, readable offline forever — every article, every image — plus 3 AI questions a day. A complete survival encyclopedia, free.
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Spirit of '76 · Own it all
$76 once

One purchase. The full software. Forever.

Includes
Unlimited AI answers with citations across all 53 domains, every mini-app and calculator, the biggest AI models your hardware can run, your own videos, books and notes indexed in — plus free updates and every new domain and feature we ship. Yours for good.
Own it for $76
What you get
Free mode
Spirit of '76 — $76
Read the whole 53-domain library, offline
✓ Forever
✓ Forever
AI answers with citations
3 a day
Unlimited
Mini-apps & calculators
All of them
Your videos, books & notes — indexed & cited
AI models
Standard
The largest your hardware runs
Free updates for life
Content + AI + every new domain & feature

Windows desktop sold direct from us · iPhone & iPad on the App Store · each sold for its platform

Priced at 1776 — because self-reliance is the whole point.

Straight answers

FAQ

Do I need an internet connection?
No. The AI, the search index, and the content all live on your device. After install you can disconnect the network permanently and Steadwise still works. The only time you'd go online is to grab optional content packs or updates.
What happens when my 30 days are up?
Nothing sneaky — there's no card on file, so you can't be auto-charged and there's nothing to cancel. The app simply drops to free mode — and it's generous: every domain in the library stays readable, free, forever, plus 3 AI questions a day. What you buy is the engine: unlimited AI answers with citations, the mini-apps and calculators, importing your own material, and free updates. Buy once — $76 — and the full software is yours permanently.
Is $76 really the only price?
Yes. One purchase unlocks the full software — all 53 domains with unlimited cited AI, every mini-app, the larger models, your own material indexed in — plus free updates and every new domain and feature we add, for life. No subscriptions, no upsells on what you've bought. Optional extras like regional map packs are separate one-time downloads, never required.
Does one purchase cover both desktop and iPhone?
Each platform is sold for that platform: the desktop app comes direct from us, and the iOS app comes from the App Store. Same library, same AI, same $76 pay-once price on both. Buy it where you'll use it.
Can it really use my own videos?
Yes. Import videos, audio, and PDFs you have the right to use; Steadwise transcribes them on-device, indexes every word into your AI, and keeps them playable offline. Ask a question and it cites the exact moment in your video.
Is my data private?
Completely. Steadwise keeps everything on your own device. It never uploads your questions, your files, or any information about you to any server — and you are never tracked by any company or any government. No accounts, no logins, no hidden reporting. Everything you ask and everything you store stays with you.
Where does the content come from?
Time-tested public-domain sources — U.S. Army Field Manuals, USDA and NRCS bulletins, USACE engineering manuals, NOAA, USGS, NASA, EPA, NIH, DOE, the Library of Congress and classic pre-1929 trade manuals — authored into illustrated chapters and indexed so every AI answer cites the exact chapter it came from.

Be ready before you have to be

The day you need Steadwise is the day nothing downloads. Put the library, the AI and the maps on your own hardware now — and try everything free for 30 days. No card, no auto-charge, nothing to cancel.

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