No internet. Still answering.

A tutor for schools the internet hasn't reached.

Amara is an AI tutor that runs entirely on a laptop. No Wi-Fi, no cloud, and no student data leaving the room.

Request a pilot About the film

The tutor in the film is real.

The film is illustrated. Halfway through, it cuts to a screen recording of the working prototype answering a student's question on a laptop.

The film is in production.It will play here.

1.5–2.0 s

until the first words of an answer appear, with the model running on the laptop itself.

Measured on a MacBook Pro with M1 Pro and 16 GB of memory.
0

network connections while it answers. Every route out is blocked and monitored during the tests.

IPv4, IPv6, UDP and DNS.
Cited

Every answer shows the article it came from. When its materials don't cover a question, it says "I don't know" instead of guessing.

Sources are attached by the app, not written by the model.

What happens when a student asks a question

Illustration: Amara opens an old laptop on her school desk while two classmates lean in.

  1. The question is checked

    A filter screens it first, so off-topic or unsafe questions get a gentle redirect.

  2. The laptop searches its own library

    A pack of openly licensed science and maths articles is stored on the device and searched locally.

  3. A small model writes the explanation

    Qwen3 4B runs on the laptop through Tether's QVAC and explains step by step, in simple words.

  4. The student gets a source and a question back

    The answer shows where it came from and ends with a question to check understanding.

Built for classrooms where the cloud isn't an option

Illustration: children in a mountain school in the Andes gathered around a laptop.
A mountain school in the Andes
Illustration: children in school uniforms sharing a laptop under an acacia tree.
A rural school in East Africa
Illustration: children on woven mats around a laptop in a colourful village school.
A village school in rural India

What it isn't yet

Amara is a working prototype. It has not been tested in a school, and these are the limits we know about.

  • It answers in Spanish and English only.
  • It can't tell a student whether their answer is right. It thanks them and shows how to check.
  • Its safety filters look for words and can be worked around, so children should use it with an adult nearby.
  • It's a small model on a laptop: far less capable than cloud assistants, and only as broad as its library.

Request a pilot

For schools and organizations working where connectivity is the problem. Tell me about your setting and I'll reply personally.

Internet connection at the school
Devices available

Amara is a prototype that has not been tested in schools, and any pilot would run with an adult supervising. Your details are used only to reply to you. Please don't include any information about students. Privacy

Contact

For anything other than a pilot, you can reach me on LinkedIn.

linkedin.com/in/alexinteractive

Built with

On-device AI
Tether's QVAC SDK
Language model
Qwen3 4B, quantized to run on a laptop
Search
EmbeddingGemma, running locally
Library
Wikipedia articles under CC BY-SA 4.0
Illustrations
Generated with AI image and video tools

Who made it

I'm Alex Smith. Years ago I built Urli OS, an operating system deployed across Latin America and India in public schools and universities. Now I'm building Amara: AI that works where the network doesn't.

No internet. No cloud. Just a laptop.

The code is open. If you run schools, programs or devices where connectivity is the problem, I'd like to hear from you.

Request a pilot See the code on GitHub