Zero telemetry
Project N.O.M.A.D. has zero built-in telemetry. Nothing you do is tracked, logged remotely, or reported back to any server. Specifically:- No usage analytics
- No crash reporting to external services
- No feature usage tracking
- No phone home of any kind
Your data stays on your hardware
All of the following remain entirely on your server:- Search history — queries you run in the Information Library or Maps
- AI conversations — every chat message and response
- Knowledge Base files — any documents you upload for AI-assisted search
- Notes — anything written in the Notes app
- Benchmark results — unless you explicitly choose to submit them to the community leaderboard
AI is completely local
The AI Assistant runs entirely on your hardware via Ollama. Your conversations are not sent to any external service. There is no cloud API key, no external LLM provider, and no data leaving your server during AI chat. The AI chat is built directly into the Command Center — there is no separate service to configure or external account to create.Connectivity test
N.O.M.A.D. makes one type of outbound request automatically: a connectivity check to determine whether the server has internet access. This request is made to:This connectivity check is the only automatic outbound request N.O.M.A.D. makes. All other network activity is initiated by you (e.g., downloading content or checking for updates).
Community leaderboard (opt-in)
If you choose to run the System Benchmark and submit your score to the community leaderboard, your benchmark results and Builder Tag are sent tobenchmark.projectnomad.us. This is entirely opt-in — running the benchmark locally does not submit anything automatically.
Summary
| What | Stays local? |
|---|---|
| AI conversations | Yes — always |
| Search queries | Yes — always |
| Uploaded documents | Yes — always |
| Notes | Yes — always |
| Connectivity check | Outbound GET to 1.1.1.1 only |
| Benchmark score | Yes, unless you submit to leaderboard |
| Usage analytics | Not collected |