A single Mac Mini
Everything runs on one quiet, low-power machine at your place, not on a fleet of rented servers.
About
A craftsman's product, not an industrial SaaS.
PrivateCore is not a startup with an eight-figure round. It is one founder, one workbench, one Mac Mini, and one conviction: your data belongs at your place.
The PrivateCore thesis
The tools of the biggest firms, within reach of the smallest business.
A small business can't afford a Skello, a Lightspeed, a Pennylane and a HubSpot combined. PrivateCore brings their functions together in a single tool, installed on your premises. One price, your data, no stacked subscriptions.
- 17 business modules in one place
- 7 SaaS tools replaced
- €819 → €249 per month, one single tool
Mission
Make digital sovereignty reachable for those who have neither an IT department nor consultants (families, freelancers, small and mid-sized businesses) without asking them to become systems engineers.
The cloud is not a fate. For ten years, SaaS vendors have convinced everyone that handing your data to a distant third party was the only way to get a modern tool. It is not true. A Mac Mini next to you, properly configured, replaces ten monthly subscriptions: without ever exposing your accounting, your photos or your customer file.
Axel Camilliere
Founder and developer of PrivateCore, based in Montpellier.
PRIVATECORE SAS publishes and distributes the HomeCore, SoloCore and BusinessCore software. The company is registered with the Montpellier trade register under number 103 084 018, with share capital of €1,000.
The publisher designs, develops, installs and maintains the ecosystem itself. No offshore support team, no call centre: when you write to contact@privatecore.fr, the publisher answers.
Simplified joint-stock company, registered office in Montpellier (34070), France.
Why now
Three things changed at the same time. The software businesses use every day followed none of them.
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Your data is worth more anywhere but your own premises
Barely a quarter goes by without a breach exposing millions of records: telecom operators, health insurers, employment agencies, public administrations. What they have in common is not negligence, it is concentration. Breaking into a hosting provider yields millions of records at once; nobody mounts that operation for a restaurant's four hundred customers. Hosting at home makes no one invulnerable, but it takes you out of the target that pays.
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AI made the question urgent
A useful AI reads what a business holds most sensitive: its invoices, its contracts, its customer correspondence, its employee files. Handing that to a remote service means exporting exactly what you refused to export. Here the model runs on the establishment's own machine: the documents never leave, neither do the questions, there is no transfer outside the EU to justify and no processor to declare, and nothing to pay per request.
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Business software, meanwhile, stood still
A good part of the market lives off an annuity: a product designed fifteen years ago, an interface nobody dares show any more, and a bill that climbs with every user, every module, every site added. Migrating costs enough that nobody leaves, so nothing improves. Here the price is published, it does not depend on how many people use it, it is capped, and your data exports to standard formats the day you decide to leave.
We started with the law, not the screens.
Before the first screen, the question was not “what does restaurant software look like” but “what is a company legally required to do”. How you register it, what an invoice must carry, what has to be kept and for how long, which registers must be ready for an inspection, what has to be declared every month for its employees.
The foundation grew out of that list: compliant invoicing and Factur-X, tamper-proof point of sale, staff registers, payroll declarations, archiving. The trades came to sit on top of it, dining, hotels, garages, medical practices, estate agencies, because a trade is that shared foundation plus a few rules of its own. Built the other way round, you get what the market sells: one interface per trade, with compliance sold as an option, module by module.
Your whole business on a machine that draws as much as two light bulbs
Local sovereignty is not only about data. It is also frugal computing: a single device at your place, not a fleet of servers heating up in a data center on your behalf.
Zero cloud server per customer
No virtual machine running 24/7 in a data center for each of your users. The footprint of cloud multi-tenancy disappears.
Local AI, no GPU data center
Your AI runs on your Mac through Ollama, never sent to a massive GPU cluster burning power elsewhere.
Bought once, owned, durable
A Mac Mini lasts for years, can be repaired and resold. No hardware churned to match cloud offers.
Timeline
- 2024
Genesis
First prototypes. The idea comes from a personal need: replace a dozen SaaS tools with a single local installation, controllable and reversible. The PrivateCore name is registered.
- 2025
BusinessCore: first real installation
First small-business customer physically installed: scheduling, payroll, accounting, POS, food safety. The product meets real life: the bugs surface, the robustness settles in.
- 2025
HomeCore + SoloCore
The ecosystem takes shape around three distinct products. One Mac Mini per context: private life, freelance activity, company. Never mixed.
- 2026
PRIVATECORE SAS: public launch
PRIVATECORE SAS is incorporated on 26 March 2026 (registered office in Montpellier). The privatecore.fr site opens to the general public. Local AI (Ollama, Mistral) is rolled out across all three products. The Max edition arrives for multi-site needs.
Values
Sovereignty
On a Mac Mini, your data stays at your place. Online, it stays in France, on an instance that is yours alone.
Craftsmanship
A product built by hand, installed by hand, maintained by hand. No automation at the expense of quality.
Reversibility
You can leave at any time. Standard exports, open formats, no contractual or technical lock-in.
Honesty
Published prices, acknowledged limits, documented outages. No spin, no inflated marketing promises.
Ready to take back control?
A bespoke install, an answer from the founder, and a Mac Mini you buy yourself or we deliver configured.