Internal product concept · August 2026

Midas 1

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 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.

🙂idle · breathing

🧠

running · a voice note in

📦

🙂 🤖 😎 🦉 ⚡ 🐙 🧠 🚀 🦾 💼

swarm · ten around one brain

195tok/sthroughput · live

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 · Midas 1

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 gate

Nothing leaves the firm without a person.

The machine stops. That is the product.

Gate queue · 2 heldnothing sent · nothing submitted

● HELD 00:26 · SEND TO CLIENT

Quote #2047 — Chan Brothers fit-out, HK$184,000

drafted by Nora · source cited · held for M. De Filippo

ApproveRefuse

● HELD 04:11 · PAYMENT CHASE

Reminder — 3 overdue invoices

drafted, not sent · waiting for finance

● RUNNING · 9 agents

Everything internal keeps moving

approvals today 7 · each attributed to a named person
a held action never expires into being sent

The gate lives on the box, not in the prompt

It cannot be talked out of stopping.

One tap approves one item

On WhatsApp. No standing grants.

Every approval carries a name

Logged with what was reviewed.

09 / The work

It arrives with the work already on it.

Named workflows, not prompts your team has to invent.

Runs alone

Triage the shared inbox into your systems
Draft quotes & letters from your templates
Extract invoices & contracts into records
Reconcile CRM against ERP, bank against ledger
Meetings → minutes, actions, CRM entries
Answer questions about your files, cited

Stops for a person

Anything sent outside the firm — always
Money — offers, figures, invoice release
Compliance & eligibility calls
Any adverse decision about a person
Writes to a protected system of record

Judgement, money, and anything a client will see — waits for you.

10 / 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.

11 / 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.

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 agent 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. Two additions needed: a 5G modem for the SIM (HK$1–2k) and a USB Wi-Fi AP dongle for day-one onboarding (~HK$500 — the onboard radio can't do AP mode on Linux).

14 / System architecture

One message, end to end.

Your team

WhatsApp ×10text + voice notes

Admin phoneQR → panel · approvals

messagesE2E transport

Meta cloud

Cloud APItransport only

webhooksstateless

Thin relay

Forwarderstores nothing

WireGuardbox dials out only

tunneloutbound only

The box · your office

Gateway + gateauth · routing · approvals

Agents ×10 · Dockerone container per person

Qwen3.6 · vLLMthe model, local, RTX 5090

Voice · 粵普 ENSenseVoice in · CosyVoice out

Qdrantvector DB · 8 TB vault

Embedderwatch → chunk → embed

Display svcthe emoji face

read-only sync

Your sources

Google Driveread-only

Local foldersbox disk or NAS

hover any node for the detail · amber = runs on the box · the relay stores nothing · unplug the box and your AI is offline

15 / Multi-tenancy

Ten containers. One brain.

What one agent reads, every agent knows — inside its permissions.

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

🧠

Qwen3.6-35B-A3B · 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

16 / The souls

Every agent ships with a soul.

Defaults, not law — the admin renames, re-voices, re-characters.

Layer 3 · at onboarding

The person

Name, role, language, hours.

Layer 2 · one per agent

The character

Personality, playbook, scope, voice.

Layer 1 · all ten

The law — always wins

Gate, ACLs, privacy. No soul overrides it.

click an agent to read its soul · dots = read access · full templates in souls/

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

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

Qwen3.6 + KV cache for 10 users · ~26 GB

STT

TTS · 2

Embed · 2

free

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

18 / The models

What fits in 32 GB — researched, not hoped.

Every weight on the box, every license commercial-safe — and everything speaks English, 廣東話 and 普通话.

🧠

Qwen3.6-35B-A3B

~20 GB · vLLM · Int4

195 tok/s single · 500–800 across ten. Best open weights in all three languages.

🎙️

SenseVoice-Small

<1 GB · STT

Hears 廣東話, 普通话 and English natively. 10 s of audio in 70 ms.

🗣️

CosyVoice2-Yue

~2 GB · TTS

Speaks Cantonese, Mandarin and English. A cloned voice per agent.

🧭

Qwen3-Embedding

~2 GB · retrieval

Top scores in Traditional and Simplified Chinese. Indexes the whole vault.

⚖️

Reranker

0 GB · runs on CPU

Sharpens every retrieval on the Ryzen, free.

The 128 GB RAM bonus: an overnight lane — a 122B model wakes after hours for the heavy reports. Never for live chat.

rejected: Llama 70B doesn't fit · Whisper + Kokoro no Cantonese · XTTS, F5 licenses — full research in MODELS.md

19 / The test

Proven under load before it ships.

Pass = green in minute 60, not minute 1.

Layer 1 · alone

Every module benchmarked

vLLM, voice, embedder, Qdrant — each against its own SLO, standard tools.

Layer 2 · together

The 60-minute soak

10 users, random arrivals, text + voice + retrieval — everything on the one GPU at once.

Layer 3 · physical

Heat, power, noise

Measured during the soak — at the wall socket, not in the driver.

Layer 4 · accept

Green in minute 60

All p95 targets hold at the end. Re-run on every software release.

<1 s first token ≤5 s text reply ≤15 s voice reply ≥0.95 retrieval recall 0 ACL leaks <85 °C sustained ≤45 dBA at 1 m

full plan with tools & methods in TEST-PLAN.md

20 / The price

The work of ten people, for the price of one.

One box, one monthly fee. Nothing per seat, per query or per document.

Enterprise SaaS seats, year one≈ HK$3,900,000

Midas, year one≈ HK$430,000

A ninety-person firm, priced both ways. Year two the gap widens — the hardware is bought, and it's yours.

The box, one timeHK$68,000
Managed service, monthlyHK$25–45k
Install · indexing · workflowsIncluded
SIM + ten WhatsApp numbersIncluded
Per seat, per query, per documentNothing

And the R&D angle: Midas holds DLRI status — qualifying engagements can carry Hong Kong's 300% tax deduction on the first HK$2M.

21 / The build

The build, week by week.

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)

Part III · Day one

The first feed.

What happens when the filing cabinet meets the box.

22 / The first feed

Drag the archive in. Watch it become memory.

Direct Wi-Fi to the box — no internet, no cloud, no IT department.

Midas-1 Setup · direct Wi-Fi48.2 GB · 3,180 files · nothing leaves the room

Embedding the archive…1,204 / 3,180 files · 46,120 chunks live

🖨️報價單 2019（掃描）.pdfOCR · 繁中

📊Q3-costing (final) (2).xlsxconverting · 40 sheets

📝contract-CH-v7.doc✓ embedded

📷IMG_4821.HEICphoto → deskew → OCR

📒舊帳簿 1998.pdfhandwriting · best-effort

already answerable: ask Nora about file #1 while file #3,000 uploads

The box is its own Wi-Fi

Connect, drop the folder, done. Password on the QR label.

A progress bar, not a mystery

Every file visibly counted, converted, embedded.

Searchable as it lands

The first file is answerable before the last one arrives. USB drive works too.

23 / The data flow

Paper-first firms are the point, not the problem.

Data flowHover any component to see exactly what it does — and where it hands off.

Midas 1 · Internal concept

Thank you.

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

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