Internal product concept · Name TBC · August 2026

Midas Minions ^{NAME TBC}

Ten colleagues in a black box.

Ten personal agents on WhatsApp. One shared brain. Your data never leaves the office.

Format

Plug-in AI appliance · SIM inside

Capacity

10 agents · one per person

Market

Hong Kong enterprises & SMEs

Owner

Michele De Filippo · Midas

The Midas Minions device — a pitch-black tower with a glowing emoji screen

01 / Why now

Hong Kong loves AI. Hong Kong doesn't trust it.

People use it daily. Companies can't commit.

0%

of employees already use AI at work.

HKPC · Oct 2025

0%

of SMEs have adopted it as a company.

Dah Sing Bank · May 2026

0%

blocked by data privacy — tied #1 with cost.

DBS SME survey · Aug 2025

#1

No market worries about AI data protection more.

CPA Australia · Nov 2025

≈ 360,000 SMEs, blocked by cost and trust. One box answers both.

02 / The wall

"Send it to the cloud" is exactly what the rules resist.

Every serious sector now has written rules on where data may go.

PDPO · Everyone

Cloud AI vendor? You stay liable.

PCPD · 2024–25

Vetted suppliers. Defined data inputs.

HKMA · Banks

Records stay inspectable in Hong Kong.

SFC · Brokers & funds

AI advice = high-risk use case.

Law Society · Legal

Client data in public AI kills privilege.

The consequence

On-prem isn't paranoia. It's the product.

03 / The idea

A company's AI, shipped as furniture.

The product in one sentence

One agent per person. One shared brain. Zero data leaves the room.

🙂

One agent, one person

A personal AI colleague with its own WhatsApp number.

🧠

One shared brain

Ask any agent — the company answers.

📦

One black box

Models, memory, knowledge. Unplug it and your AI is offline.

04 / The device

A quiet machine with a face.

Three-quarter studio view of the black tower

Three devices side by side, each with a different emoji face

Iteration 01 · Studio ¾

Built on the HYTE Y70 Touch Infinite

Pitch black. 14.9″ touchscreen in the corner glass.

The screen is the personality

The admin picks the emoji. Live status below it.

No rack, no server room

Wall socket + 5G SIM. Sits next to the router.

05 / The face

Your admin picks the face. Try it.

🙂 ATLAS HEAD AGENT

Knowledge sync

MIDAS OS

Set the head agent's emoji

One tap in the admin panel — and people start saying good morning to it.

06 / Onboarding

From courier to colleague in fifteen minutes.

No IT department. The whole setup is a QR code.

Step 1

Unbox & plug in

One power cable.

min 0–2

Step 2

It's already online

5G SIM inside, pre-activated.

min 2–3

Step 3

Scan the QR

Sign up — you're the admin.

min 3–8

Step 4

Agent 01 says hello

First message on WhatsApp.

min 8–10

Step 5

Invite nine more

Each gets their own number.

min 10–15

Then: connect Google Drive Or: point it at a local folder And: pick the emoji

07 / The experience

It lives where Hong Kong already talks: WhatsApp.

🦉

Nora · Minion

online

0:11

09:12

Heard: "Nora, what did we quote Chan Bros for the March fit-out, and is the deposit in?"09:12

Quote #2047 — HK$184,000, sent 6 Mar (Chan Brothers fit-out, from Quotes/2026). Deposit of HK$55,200 landed 14 Mar per the finance sheet. Balance due on completion. Want the PDF?09:12

0:09

Voice reply — because you asked by voice09:13

Every agent has its own number

A contact in your phone, not a tab.

Voice notes, both directions

Voice in → local transcription → voice back.

Answers come from your files

Every reply names its source.

08 / The shared brain

Ten agents. One memory.

Company braindocuments · quotes · policies · history

What one agent reads, every agent knows.

Google Drive

Read-only, folder by folder.

Local storage

Box disk or office NAS. Offline.

Later: email, calendar, ERP…

The growth surface.

09 / Private by design

The pitch is one sentence: your data never leaves this box.

Inside the box — in your office

🧠

The models

No API calls out.

📚

The knowledge base

Encrypted at rest.

🎙️

Voice, both ways

No cloud speech API.

🔐

Agent memory

Walled off per person.

Outside — by necessity, and named

💬

WhatsApp transport

Via Meta — stored only on your box.

📡

A thin relay

Forwards. Stores nothing.

⬇️

Signed updates

In only. Nothing goes out.

Aligned with the PCPD's 2024 AI framework — and compliance can verify it by looking at a cable.

10 / Distribution

Sold where Hong Kong buys connectivity: the telecom shop.

1

Walk into a telecom store. The box sits next to the routers.

2

Buy it like broadband. Hardware + SIM + ten numbers.

3

Plug it in. On WhatsApp before dinner.

The shelf already exists

Home 5G Broadband, 30+ stores — "no wiring, no installation."

So does the business desk

"Simply unbox, plug in, and you're ready to operate within minutes."

Telecoms already sell boxes with SIMs inside. This is just the first one with employees in it.

11 / The field

Everyone sells compute or seats. Nobody sells colleagues.

	NVIDIA DGX SparkUS$4,699 · dev workstation	Lemony AIUS$499/mo · 5 users	Cloud AI seats~US$20/seat/mo	Midas Minionsone box · 10 people
Data stays on-premises	✓	✓	—	✓
Works out of the box	— bring a dev team	✓	✓	✓
A personal agent per employee	—	—	shared chat UI	✓ ×10
Lives in WhatsApp	—	—	—	✓ own number each
Shared company knowledge base	—	doc workflows	per-vendor cloud	✓ local
Voice notes in & out	—	—	app-only	✓
Sold in a retail store	—	—	—	✓ telecom shelf

The per-person WhatsApp agent on private hardware is an empty lane.

Part II · The MVP

Under the glass.

The machine, the software, and why ten is an engineering number.

13 / Bill of materials

One machine, ten salaries of patience.

Part	Role in the box	Spec that matters	≈ HK$
AMD Ryzen 9 9950X	conductor	16 cores — runs 10 agent processes	3,300
ZOTAC RTX 5090 AMP Extreme	the brain	32 GB GDDR7 — every minion thinks here	30,000
Corsair Vengeance DDR5 128 GB	workspace	2×64 GB 6000 — ten working sets	~10,000
WD Black SN8100 4 TB	system + models	PCIe 5.0 — OS + model weights	5,500
Samsung 9100 PRO 8 TB	knowledge vault	PCIe 5.0 — documents + embeddings, encrypted	7,980
ASUS ProArt X870E-Creator	backbone	10 GbE · Wi-Fi 7 · dual USB4	4,400
ROG Strix LC III 360 ARGB	keeps it quiet	360 mm liquid — office-quiet	1,300
ASUS Pro WS 1600 W Platinum	heart	600 W GPU peak, headroom to spare	3,600
HYTE Y70 Touch Infinite	the face	Pitch black · 14.9″ 2.5K touchscreen	3,600
Logitech MK235 combo	service hatch	Lives in the drawer	140
Total per unit		street prices, Aug 2026 · range HK$63–80k	≈ 70,000

DDR5 is in a 2026 squeeze — RAM is the swing line. One addition needed: a 5G modem for the SIM (HK$1–2k).

14 / What runs inside

All open-weight. All local. All yours.

Channels

WhatsApp Cloud APIAdmin panelDisplay service · the face

Agents ×10

Agent runtime · one process per personTool-calling loopPer-agent memory

Intelligence

vLLMQwen3.5-35B-A3B · ~195 tok/sWhisper large-v3-turbo · 25× realtimeKokoro-82M · 45 ms

Knowledge

Qdrant · 8 TB vaultEmbedding pipelineConnectors · Drive, folders

Metal

Linux · LUKS encryptedWireGuard · outbound-onlySigned OTA updates

How the 32 GB of GPU memory is spentRTX 5090 · GDDR7

LLM + KV cache · ~24 GB

STT · 3

Embed

TTS

headroom

15 / System architecture

One message, end to end.

Your team

WhatsApp

text + voice notes

Admin phone

QR → panel

Meta cloud

WhatsApp Cloud API

transport only

Thin relay

Webhook forwarder

stores nothing

WireGuard endpoint

box dials out only

The box · in your office

Gateway

auth + routing

Agents ×10

one per person

vLLM serving

Qwen3.5 · RTX 5090

Voice

Whisper in · Kokoro out

Qdrant KB

shared brain · 8 TB

Display svc

the face

Your sources

Google Drive

read-only

Local folders

box or NAS

message path amber = on the box knowledge stays local relay stores nothing

16 / Multi-tenancy

Ten containers. One brain.

WhatsApp — ten numbers, one per agent

↓ ×10

Docker — one container per agent · isolated runtime & memorymulti-tenant by construction

🙂agent-01+852·01

🤖agent-02+852·02

😎agent-03+852·03

🦉agent-04+852·04

⚡agent-05+852·05

🐙agent-06+852·06

🧠agent-07+852·07

🚀agent-08+852·08

🦾agent-09+852·09

💼agent-10+852·10

↓ prompts · answers ↑ — retrieval scoped by each agent's ACL

Shared local servicesnothing here calls the internet

🧠

Qwen3.5-35B · vLLM

the model — lives on the box's GPU

🗂️

Qdrant

local vector DB

⚙️

Embedder

indexes all local data

embedder watches ↓ → chunk → embed → Qdrant

Local storage — partitioned, per-agent read permissionsdot on a container = read access

Shared

/data/shared

Sales

/data/sales

Finance

/data/finance

Ops

/data/ops

17 / Why ten

Ten isn't marketing. It's the physics and the paperwork.

0 tok/s

The GPU says ten is comfortable

vLLM aggregate on one RTX 5090. Ten chatty humans don't dent it.

cloudrift.ai benchmarks · RTX 5090

0 numbers

WhatsApp says ten fits twice over

One verified business account holds 20 numbers. Ten uses half.

Meta · WhatsApp Business Platform

0 SIMs

Hong Kong says ten is the legal line

Agent numbers are real HK SIMs — capped at 10 per person per carrier.

Real-name SIM rules · box's data SIM rides separately

Physics, platform and paperwork agree. You take the number.

18 / The build

Twelve weeks to a box someone else can unbox.

W1W2W3W4W5W6W7W8W9W10W11W12

Bench build & inference

Agents + WhatsApp

Shared brain & connectors

Onboarding, panel & pilot

v0.1 ships with

10 agents · own numbers
Voice notes in and out
Shared KB · Drive + folders
QR onboarding + panel
Admin-set emoji face
Encrypted, signed updates

Deliberately later

Email / calendar / ERP connectors
Meeting transcription
Cantonese voice fine-tuning
Fleet management for telecom partners
Multi-box clustering (11+ people)

Midas Minions · name TBC · Internal concept

Thank you.

One agent per person. One shared brain. Zero data leaves the room.
Let's build the first box.

midasanalytics.ai

Midas Minions NAME TBC

Hong Kong loves AI. Hong Kong doesn't trust it.

"Send it to the cloud" is exactly what the rules resist.

Cloud AI vendor? You stay liable.

Vetted suppliers. Defined data inputs.

Records stay inspectable in Hong Kong.

AI advice = high-risk use case.

Client data in public AI kills privilege.

On-prem isn't paranoia. It's the product.

A company's AI, shipped as furniture.

One agent, one person

One shared brain

One black box

A quiet machine with a face.

Built on the HYTE Y70 Touch Infinite

The screen is the personality

No rack, no server room

Your admin picks the face. Try it.

From courier to colleague in fifteen minutes.

Unbox & plug in

It's already online

Scan the QR

Agent 01 says hello

Invite nine more

It lives where Hong Kong already talks: WhatsApp.

Every agent has its own number

Voice notes, both directions

Answers come from your files

Ten agents. One memory.

Google Drive

Local storage

Later: email, calendar, ERP…

The pitch is one sentence: your data never leaves this box.

The models

The knowledge base

Voice, both ways

Agent memory

WhatsApp transport

A thin relay

Signed updates

Sold where Hong Kong buys connectivity: the telecom shop.

The shelf already exists

So does the business desk

Everyone sells compute or seats. Nobody sells colleagues.

Under the glass.

One machine, ten salaries of patience.

All open-weight. All local. All yours.

One message, end to end.

WhatsApp

Admin phone

WhatsApp Cloud API

Webhook forwarder

WireGuard endpoint

Gateway

Agents ×10

vLLM serving

Voice

Qdrant KB

Display svc

Google Drive

Local folders

Ten containers. One brain.

Qwen3.5-35B · vLLM

Qdrant

Embedder

Shared

Sales

Finance

Ops

Ten isn't marketing. It's the physics and the paperwork.

The GPU says ten is comfortable

WhatsApp says ten fits twice over

Hong Kong says ten is the legal line

Twelve weeks to a box someone else can unbox.

Thank you.

Midas Minions ^{NAME TBC}