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What is Waired?

Who this is for
Anyone deciding whether Waired is for them
You need
Nothing — this page installs nothing
Time
2 minutes

AI coding tools normally send everything you type to a company’s servers, and charge you per message. Waired lets one computer you already own run the AI instead, and lets your other devices use it from anywhere.

The difference in one picture

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Without Waired, your laptop sends every prompt to a cloud AI provider and is billed per message. With Waired, your laptop sends prompts over a private encrypted link to your own computer, which runs the AI.WITHOUT WAIREDYour laptopClaude Codeevery promptCloud AI providerbilled per messageWITH WAIREDYour laptopClaude Codeprivate, encryptedYour own computerruns the AI modelonly if yours is downCloud AI providerand it tells you
Your prompts go to a computer you own. The cloud is only ever a visible fallback.

What you get

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  • No per-message bill. The AI runs on hardware you already paid for.
  • Your prompts stay yours. They travel between your own devices over an encrypted link. Waired’s servers introduce your devices to each other and never see what you send.
  • Your tools don’t change. Claude Code, OpenCode, and any OpenAI-compatible app keep working exactly as before.
  • It works away from home. Your laptop reaches your desktop’s AI from a café or an office, without you setting up a VPN or opening ports.

What it is not

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  • Not a chat app. Waired has no chat window of its own. It makes the tools you already use talk to your own AI instead of a company’s.
  • Not a way to run huge frontier models. What you can run is bounded by your hardware. A good desktop runs a capable coding model; a thin laptop runs a small one. Waired tells you honestly which one fits.
  • Not something that hides fallbacks. If your own AI cannot answer, the request goes to the cloud provider and Waired says so — it never pretends a cloud answer came from your machine.

What it costs to run

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Nothing per message. You need one computer that stays on when you want to use it, and enough memory for the model — see the model catalog for the numbers.

How it works, briefly

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Every computer you sign in on joins a private network of your own. When you ask a question, Waired decides where it should run — this computer, another of your computers, or (visibly) the cloud — and sends it there over an encrypted connection. Your devices talk directly to each other whenever the network allows; when a firewall gets in the way, an encrypted relay passes the sealed data along without being able to read it.

Privacy — what leaves your computerExactly what is sent, to whom, and what stays put.
ArchitectureThe technical version, with the parts named.
Set it up — about 10 minutes