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 backed by a nine-figure round. It's one founder, a workbench, a Mac Mini, and a conviction: your data must stay with you.
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.
- 16 business modules in one place
- 6 SaaS tools replaced
- €780 → €249 per month, one single tool
PRIVATECORE SAS
Simplified joint-stock company : registered office in Montpellier (34070), France.
PRIVATECORE SAS publishes and distributes the HomeCore, SoloCore and BusinessCore software. The company is registered with the Montpellier Trade and Companies Register under number 103 084 018, with €1,000 share capital.
The publisher designs, builds, installs and maintains the entire ecosystem in-house. No offshore support team, no chatbot : when you write to [email protected], the publisher answers.
Mission
Make digital sovereignty accessible to those without a CIO or a consulting budget : families, freelancers, small businesses, SMBs : without forcing them to become sysadmins.
The cloud is not inevitable. Over the past decade, SaaS vendors convinced everyone that handing your data to a distant third party was the only way to access a modern tool. It isn't. A Mac Mini next to you, properly configured, replaces ten monthly subscriptions : without ever exposing your accounting, photos or customer file.
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
Origin
First prototypes. The idea comes from a personal need: replacing roughly ten SaaS tools with a single local installation, controllable and reversible. The PrivateCore trademark is registered.
- 2025
BusinessCore : first real installation
First SMB customer physically installed: scheduling, payroll, accounting, POS, HACCP. The product meets real life : bugs surface, robustness settles in.
- 2025
HomeCore + SoloCore
The ecosystem organises around three distinct products. One Mac Mini per context: personal life, freelance activity, business. Never mixed.
- 2026
PRIVATECORE SAS : public launch
PRIVATECORE SAS is incorporated on 26 March 2026 (registered office in Montpellier). The privatecore.fr website opens to the wider public. Local AI integration (Ollama, Mistral) becomes standard across the three products. The Max tier arrives for multi-site needs.
Values
Sovereignty
Your data, on your hardware, at your place. Always. No exception.
Craftsmanship
A hand-built product, 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
Prices shown, limits acknowledged, incidents documented. No marketing spin, no inflated promises.
Ready to take back control?
A bespoke install, same-day reply, and your Mac Mini delivered in 24h.