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2004 · The Metal
Bring the hardware.The lab brings the rest.
S◉LOCK scales from a single desk to a lab floor. Same system, same laws — the only variable is how much machine you give it.
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The maths of
Home · Tier 1
CRUCIBLE
qwen3:8b · local
GPU VRAM0 GB floor · 16 GB sweet spot
System RAM0 GB minimum
CarriesCore suite
Feels likeA very fast colleague
Built forThe most common GPU class on Earth
Pro · Tier 2–3
MYTHIC
qwen3:30b-a3b · local
GPU VRAM0 GB
System RAM0 GB
CarriesFull suite + studios
Feels likeA department
Lab · Enterprise
HELMSMAN
codemaster-235b · vLLM · multi-GPU
System RAM0 GB floor
Storage0 TB NVMe
CarriesEverything + the lab
Feels likeAn institution
Why owned metal wins
The maths of
ownership.
A rented frontier seat compounds monthly, forever. A machine is bought once and works around the clock — rendering, writing, building — at the price of electricity. The break-even is measured in months, not years. After that, every hour is free.
The standing rule
The system never outgrows you silently
Start on CRUCIBLE, move to MYTHIC, graduate to HELMSMAN — same system image, same laws, same data, zero migration. The tiers are one machine growing up.
Upgrade pathDrop-in, no reinstall
Your filesNever move, never leave