AI That Doesn't Phone Home
Run Powerful LLMs On Your Hardware. Keep Your Secrets Secret.
STING runs on your infrastructure. Your data never leaves. No pinky promises required. Open source. Self-hosted. Yours forever.
You Know This Dance
You want to use AI. Legal says "absolutely not." Security has concerns. Compliance laughs nervously. Meanwhile, your competitors are shipping features faster because they either don't care about privacy or figured out something you haven't.
STING is that something: Real AI that runs 100% on your servers. No cloud required. No back channels or secret meetings needed. Just results.
From Zero to Buzzing in Under 30 Minutes
Four steps. No PhD required.
Step 1: Feed It
PDFs, Word docs, databases, that chaotic SharePoint folder nobody wants to organize—just connect it. Our Worker Bees handle 7+ document types—and growing—so you don't have to write another integration.
Step 2: PII Gets Scrambled
Social security numbers, credit cards, that executive's personal phone number buried in a random spreadsheet—STING finds it and scrambles it before the AI ever sees it. No manual redaction. No "oops" moments.
Step 3: Build Your Honey Jars
Give sales their playbooks. Give legal their precedents. Give engineering their actually-useful documentation. Role-based access means people see what they need, not the whole hive.
Step 4: Reap the Honey
Use it internally and watch your team stop asking the same questions repeatedly. Export your knowledge. Share with your team. It's open source—you own everything, forever.
Choose Your Path
Personal desktop app, team server, or pre-built VM — pick what fits.
Nectar (Desktop)
Personal AI, local-first. Download and run on your Mac, Windows, or Linux machine. Docker runs automatically behind the scenes.
Best for: Individual users, evaluation, offline use
8GB RAM • ~5-10GB with models
STING CE Server
Team deployment, self-hosted. Multi-user server for teams. Full Docker stack, open source.
Best for: Teams, shared knowledge bases, self-hosters
bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/AlphaBytez/STING-CE/main/bootstrap.sh)"What's a Honey Jar?
You'll see "Honey Jars" everywhere in STING. Don't worry, it's not as weird as it sounds. A Honey Jar is where your knowledge lives — encrypted, searchable, and actually useful. Think of it as a vault that your AI can read but humans can't peek into without permission.
- AES-256 encryption — the good stuff
- AI-searchable — Bee AI finds answers without exposing raw files
- You control access — decide exactly who sees what
- Fully exportable — your data, your format, no lock-in
Real example: Legal dumps 500 contracts into a Honey Jar. Sales asks Bee AI "find me an NDA template for California." Bee finds it instantly. Sales gets their answer. Nobody sees the raw contracts. Legal doesn't get 47 Slack messages. Everyone's happy.
The Good Stuff
Features that actually matter for enterprise AI.
PII Protection That Actually Works
Sensitive data automatically caught and scrambled. Social security numbers, credit cards, medical records—gone before the AI touches them. Sleep better at night.
How the protection works →Bee AI Learns YOUR Business
This isn't generic ChatGPT. Bee AI reads your docs, learns your terminology, and gives answers based on what YOUR company actually does. No more "based on my training data" nonsense.
Meet Bee AI →Local + Cloud = Your Choice
Keep the sensitive stuff on your servers. Let cloud AI handle the heavy lifting when it's safe. You write the rules. STING follows them.
How hybrid works →Fully Open Source
Apache 2.0 licensed. Fork it, modify it, run it forever. No vendor lock-in, no surprise licensing changes, no "we got acquired" emails.
View on GitHub →Who Actually Uses This?
Legal Firms
You're drowning in documents and billing by the hour to find precedents. Let Bee AI do the digging while you do the lawyering. Attorney-client privilege stays intact. Your paralegals might actually go home on time.
Healthcare
HIPAA isn't a suggestion, it's your life. Analyze patient data without the compliance nightmares. Share research findings without sharing the data that generated them. Your compliance officer will bee so relieved.
Government
Air-gapped? No problem. Classified environment? We don't phone home. Zero external dependencies after install. Build institutional knowledge that physically cannot leak because it never leaves your network.
Open Source, Free Forever
STING is open source under the Apache 2.0 license. Download it, run it, modify it, deploy it. No usage limits, no feature gates, no surprise bills.
Nectar
Desktop • Powered by STING
Free
Personal AI on your machine
- Desktop app (Mac/Win/Linux)
- Bee AI with local LLMs
- Unlimited Honey Jars
- Works 100% offline
- Connect to STING CE Server (coming soon)
- Community support
STING CE Server
Self-hosted Docker deployment
Free
Multi-user, self-hosted
- Multi-user server deployment
- Bee AI included
- Unlimited Honey Jars
- PII scrambling
- WebAuthn/Passkey auth
- Community support
❤ Love what we're building? AlphaBytez is on the GitHub Sponsors program. Your support helps us keep STING free and open source.
Sponsor Us on GitHubThe Skeptic's Corner
"I can just run Ollama myself. Why do I need this?"
You absolutely can. And if you enjoy spending weekends building PII detection, auth systems, audit logging, and compliance reporting from scratch, go for it. We'll bee here when you get tired.
What you get with STING: Honey Jar knowledge management, 15+ PII types auto-scrambled—and growing—with support for custom patterns, enterprise auth that actually works, audit trails, compliance reports, and a marketplace to share and sell your expertise (coming soon). All in one install.
The full breakdown →"30 minutes? Really?"
From paste-command to asking-questions: yes, about 30 minutes. Full production deployment with all your data organized: 2-5 days. Larger deployments where security reviews everything: 1-2 weeks.
The install script does the heavy lifting. You just answer some questions and watch it work.
Installation details →"Does it actually work offline or is that marketing fluff?"
After install? Zero internet required. No telemetry. No "phone home." No sneaky API calls. Pull the ethernet cable if it makes you feel better. STING doesn't care.
We built this for environments where "air-gapped" isn't paranoia, it's policy.
Offline details →Still Reading?
You can keep researching. Read more whitepapers. Schedule more meetings. Or you can download Nectar and be chatting with your documents once the containers pull. Or deploy STING CE Server and have your whole team running in about 30 minutes.
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