Magpie NetHold your own keys.
Magpie Net helps small businesses use AI without being stuck with one company, and helps businesses and individuals hold and accept Bitcoin with more privacy and no middleman. We work in your own accounts and on your own hardware, and the keys stay with you.
Sound familiar?
If one of these sounds like you, we can help.
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AI
Your team already uses ChatGPT or Copilot, and you’re not sure what client information has gone in.
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AI
AI companies can raise prices, retire the model you rely on, or cut off access, sometimes overnight. This year, all three happened.
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AI
You want to use AI properly, but you’re short on time and unsure which tools are safe.
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Bitcoin
Your wallet app most likely checks your balance on someone else’s server, which can learn your addresses and your IP address.
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Bitcoin
Payment companies stand between you and your customers, collect data on your sales, and can hold back your money.
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Bitcoin
There’s no “forgot password” for your own Bitcoin. A lost backup or one convincing phishing message can be permanent.
What we set up, and what stays yours.
Each service says what you get, what you keep and what Magpie never does. Every engagement is scoped and quoted before work starts.
AI services
Set the rules for your AI. Keep the freedom to move.
For small businesses, from a first AI policy to AI you run yourself.
This is technology work, not legal advice.
AI sovereignty consulting
Use AI well, without handing over control.
We start with what your team already uses. Then we help you choose tools, write a clear AI policy, set safer settings in the accounts you already pay for, and train your staff. Where it fits, we set up an open-weight model (AI you download and run yourself) on hardware or a cloud account you own, so you have a fallback that keeps working if a provider changes its terms.
- You get
- A clear picture of the AI your team already uses, a policy they can follow, safer settings and training. If you want AI you own: a model chosen for your work and budget, its access rules and guardrails, and a written record of the set-up.
- You keep
- Your accounts, your data and your choice of provider; any tool we recommend, you buy directly in your own account. With AI you own: the hardware or cloud account, the administrator access, and a documented way to move to another model or provider.
- Magpie never
- Takes a commission on the tools it recommends, hosts or resells mainstream AI services, keeps a spare key or a hidden way in, or quietly sends your requests to an outside AI service.
We’ll tell you when a mainstream tool, set up carefully, is the better choice.
ChatGPT, Claude and Copilot are third-party services, and your data follows their terms.
Ask about AI sovereignty consultingBitcoin services
Your hardware. Your node. Your keys.
For businesses and individuals who want to hold, check and accept Bitcoin themselves, without a company in the middle. Everything we set up is self-custodial: you hold the keys that control your funds.
Magpie never holds, signs, moves or safekeeps your funds, and never keeps a seed phrase (your wallet’s recovery words), private key or wallet backup.
Privacy here means fewer middlemen seeing your payments and customers. Bitcoin transactions are still recorded publicly, and privacy never means hiding from tax or legal obligations. This is infrastructure work, not investment advice.
Bitcoin node and privacy set-up
Hold and accept Bitcoin with more privacy, and no middleman.
We install your own Bitcoin node on your hardware and can connect it through Tor, a privacy network, so other Bitcoin nodes don’t see your IP address. Your wallet then checks your own node instead of a company’s server. If you take payments, we add self-hosted payment software, such as BTCPay Server, so customers pay straight into your wallet with no payment company in between. Then we teach the habits that protect it: a hardware wallet, a tested backup and sensible balances.
- Customers
- Your wallet
checks every transaction
- You get
- A plan for your situation, your own node installed from verified software and connected to your wallet, self-hosted payments if you take them, with invoice records you can export for your accountant, a backup you have tested, and an operating guide with training.
- You keep
- The hardware, the node, the administrator access and the keys, plus your funds and your customers’ payment records. No payment company holds your customers’ data.
- Magpie never
- Holds, signs or moves your funds, receives or forwards your payments, keeps a copy of your keys or a wallet backup, or holds one of the keys in a shared-signing (multisig) set-up.
Both services have no set packages or prices: the first 30-minute chat is free, and each engagement is scoped and quoted for you.
How it works
A free first chat, a plan, the set-up, then a handover in which you keep the keys. Every engagement is scoped and quoted before work starts.
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A free chat
Tell us what you’d like to protect. The first 30 minutes are free. General descriptions are enough; never send passwords, keys or seed phrases.
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A plan
We write down what we will set up, what you will keep and what it costs, before any work starts.
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The set-up
We do the work in your own accounts and on your own hardware, and check that it does what the plan says.
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The handover
You get the documents, the training and every key. Magpie keeps no spare.
Straight answers
Any adviser who says there are no limits is the one to worry about. Here are ours, and what we have already built.
- Bitcoin isn’t anonymous. We make it more private, not invisible.
- Running your own AI usually costs more than a subscription, and models that run on modest hardware trail the leading ones by six months or more.
- Nothing is perfectly secure. You get a written note of what your set-up protects and what it doesn’t.
- Proven
- A working local AI demonstration shows how staff could use a model and how requests pass through selected gateway and control components. It runs at small scale on non-sensitive examples and is not used for real sensitive customer data.
- Proven
- Jack runs his own Bitcoin node in Melbourne, connected to the Bitcoin network only through Tor, a privacy network. It is finishing its sync, which means downloading and checking Bitcoin’s full history.
- Future direction
- A confidential AI platform is a future direction for Magpie, not an available service. Nothing on this page sells or promises it.
Partner with us
One email address, two subject lines. Choose the one that fits and send a short message.
Businesses and individuals who want help
You want AI or Bitcoin set up on your own terms, or advice on where to begin. Tell us what you want to control.
Subject: Help with AI or Bitcoin
Businesses that want to collaborate
You see a way for your business and Magpie to work together. Tell us what you have in mind.
Subject: Partnering with Magpie
The person you meet is the person building it
Magpie Net is founded and led by Jack Pertzel, a Melbourne-based founder. He also founded and remains a director of Holistic Help AU, a registered NDIS provider, and built the company’s invoicing and operations software when vendor tools fell short. His broader work includes applied science and electronics R&D.
Magpie began with a straightforward conviction: organisations should be able to use powerful AI without surrendering every important decision to one vendor. Jack leads every conversation and design decision personally.
Start a conversation
Email Jack with the subject that fits. A few lines about what you’d like to protect are enough, and the first 30-minute chat is free.
Never email seed phrases, private keys, passwords or sensitive client information.
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Businesses and individuals who want help
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