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01 Intelligent · secure · sovereign

Your business,
in your hands.

Arcanus is a portable business workspace designed to help you view, store and use your data—without making it ours.

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ARCANUS XFCE / CORE
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ARCANUS ARCANUM VAULT
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Platform + workspace A clean ownership boundary
01Arcanus provides the environmentArcanus XFCE runs Core.
02You own the VaultYour business remains your business.
03They work as oneA portable environment with a clear boundary.

02 The premise

Business software keeps asking for more of your data.

More uploads. More accounts. More disconnected subscriptions. More of your business living somewhere you cannot see or control.

Arcanus begins with a different question: what if the technology worked around your ownership?

03 One coherent system

Two products.
One clean boundary.

Core decides whether the environment can be trusted. Vault defines the business that appears when it is.

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The operating environment · Arcanus maintained

Arcanus XFCE

The Linux Mint XFCE-based operating system. It provides the trusted foundation on which Core runs.

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The workspace · Customer owned

Arcanum Vault

The business itself: data, applications, agents, workflows, licences, identity and intellectual property.

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OPERATING SYSTEMArcanus XFCE
→
DISCOVERS + ORCHESTRATESCore
→
CUSTOMER-OWNED BUSINESSArcanum Vault
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RUNS INSIDE THE VAULTArcanus Platform · Practice · Customs · Ledger · Commerce

04 The physical architecture

Two products.
Two responsibilities.

The separation is deliberate. Arcanus XFCE provides the operating system. Core runs within it to govern trust, identity and restoration. Arcanum Vault holds the customer's business.

  • 01
    Arcanus XFCE provides the foundationBuilt around Linux Mint XFCE, it supplies the focused operating environment in which Core can establish trust.
  • 02
    Arcanum Vault defines the businessDocuments, databases, identity and Arcanus Platform—with Practice, Customs, Ledger and other modules—remain together.
  • 03
    The connection restores the wholeReplace the computer, start Arcanus XFCE, let Core establish trust and connect the Vault. The business returns intact.

05 Core

Can this workspace
safely run here?

Core is the capability-discovery, policy and orchestration runtime running within Arcanus XFCE. It coordinates application-owned capabilities through a stable, governed protocol.

CORE · LOCAL INTERFACE
Core interface showing a governed request to create a customs claim and open system settings
The Core Sphere is a client of Core, connecting natural language to authorised capabilities.

WORKING PRODUCT Local by design

One place to ask.
A governed path to act.

Core discovers commands, resources and events exposed by applications. It applies permissions, risk and confirmation policy before asking the owning application to execute. Conversation history stays local to the machine.

Core local chat history showing saved conversations
LOCAL HISTORY Conversations remain available without becoming someone else's data store.
DISCOVER

Find capabilities

Applications register versioned commands, resources and events without giving Core unrestricted database access.

ENFORCE

Apply policy

Permissions, risk levels and confirmation requirements are checked before an operation can proceed.

ORCHESTRATE

Let applications act

Core plans and coordinates. The owning application keeps its data, rules, transactions and command execution.

06 Arcanus Platform · Inside Arcanum Vault

The platform lives
with the business.

Arcanum Vault contains Arcanus Platform and its specialist modules—alongside the customer's documents, databases, software, agents, reports, workflows, licences and business identity.

AVAILABLE FIRST01

Commerce

Stock, customers, orders, content and reporting for data-led sellers—from vehicles and parts to retail and specialist goods.

  • AutoHub
  • BreakerHub
  • Retail workflows
PROFESSIONAL SERVICES02

Practice

Clients, jobs, deadlines, documents and communications in one operational view.

  • Client workspace
  • Jobs & deadlines
  • Team workflow
SPECIALIST OPERATIONS03

Customs

Structured casework, evidence, declarations and auditable submission workflows.

  • Case discovery
  • Evidence control
  • Submission workflow
FINANCIAL FOUNDATION04

Ledger

A sovereign double-entry foundation that capabilities can share without fragmenting truth.

  • Double entry
  • Dimensions
  • Event integration

Core orchestrates capabilities. Applications own their data and execution.

VEHICLE→CLIENT→DECLARATION→TRANSACTION
Rear of the Arcanus Portal with the XFCE and Vault drives recessed in a V formation with subtle purple edge lighting
REAR Recessed dual-drive architecture
Front of the Arcanus Portal showing the secure gateway waiting for the Vault
FRONT Secure workspace gateway

07 Arcanus Portal

The governed
way in.

Portal is the focused gateway into the Arcanus environment. It works with Arcanus XFCE and Core to verify the person, present the state of trust and restore the customer-owned Vault.

  1. 01PresentConnect the assigned Arcanus drive.
  2. 02VerifyConfirm the authorised person.
  3. 03RestoreOpen the governed workspace and capabilities.
  4. 04Leave cleanlyClose the session and take the workspace with you.

08 The Arcanus principles

Software should make your data more useful. Not less yours.

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Arcanus maintains XFCE and Core.

We are responsible for the operating foundation, orchestration layer, trust model and governed execution environment.

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The customer owns the Vault.

The data, software, history, relationships and intellectual property remain the customer's business.

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Governance connects them.

Core verifies where and how the Vault can run without collapsing the ownership boundary.

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Portability protects continuity.

Lose a laptop and the business is not lost with it. Replace the environment, connect the Vault and continue.

09 The essentials

Questions worth asking.

Is Arcanus just another cloud platform?+

No. Arcanus is being designed around user ownership and flexible deployment. Some services may process data where a capability requires it, but the architecture aims to avoid unnecessary possession and lock-in.

What are the two encrypted drives?+

They are two separate products. The first runs Arcanus XFCE and Core: the operating foundation and governed orchestration layer. Arcanum Vault is the customer-owned business workspace containing Platform and its modules.

What happens if the computer is lost?+

The computer is not the business. On a replacement environment, Arcanus XFCE can start, Core can establish trust and the authorised Arcanum Vault can restore the business to where it was left.

Which businesses is Arcanus for?+

Arcanus is aimed at data-led organisations: businesses where structured information, repeatable workflow, evidence and reporting are central to how value is created.

10 Early access

Own the workspace.
Shape what comes next.

Arcanus is being built with a small group of early organisations. Tell us how your business works and where ownership matters most.

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