From MVP to a citizen network
Blackout Kit today is an MVP: a web app for phone and computer that already works offline. The next step is a native app that carries messages and voice from phone to phone without any network, then radio boxes for city-wide range.
- Phase 1Live
The web app (MVP)
What you can use today: a web app, not a native app. It runs in the browser of your phone or computer, installs in one tap, and keeps working with no power and no network. It proves the idea.
- Offline city map
Download your city on Wi-Fi; streets, GPS position, nearest hospitals and pharmacies with no network.
- Radio, with or without internet
Messages and voice messages to your group through the mobile network while it works, end-to-end encrypted. With no internet: walkie-talkie, call mode and messages between phones on one Wi-Fi or hotspot, each relaying for the others, and any phone that still has internet carries the group's messages out.
- FM receiver
Public radio with a small USB receiver plugged into an Android phone or a computer.
- Offline AI
An AI that runs on your phone or computer with no network and answers your questions from verified guides, showing the guides it used.
- Guides and tools
Step-by-step what to do, 72-hour kit, flashlight and SOS.
- Live incident map
Blackouts, outages, cyberattacks and hacks worldwide, with sources, refreshed every few minutes.
- Phase 2Next
The native app
A web page cannot use Bluetooth to reach other phones by itself. A native app can, and that changes the range.
- Phone-to-phone mesh over Bluetooth
No Wi-Fi, no hotspot, no pairing code: phones find each other and relay messages up to several hops, across a building, a street, a neighbourhood.
- Voice over the mesh
Walkie-talkie and voice messages carried from phone to phone.
- A smarter offline AI
Faster answers on the phone's own AI chip, questions by voice, and more languages.
- Everything from the web app
Offline AI, map, guides and FM receiver, on iPhone and Android.
- Open protocol
Built on an open, public-domain Bluetooth mesh protocol, so it can talk with other compatible apps from day one.
- Phase 3Planned
Long range: a citizen radio network
To reach the other side of a city with no network at all, phones need a little help from radio hardware.
- LoRa boxes
Small license-free radio boxes (about €20 to €40) paired with the app by Bluetooth: messages over several kilometres, relayed box to box.
- Aid fund kits
Boxes, FM radios and walkie-talkies funded by the aid fund and given where they matter most. Every box makes the city network stronger.
- Phase 4Planned
Aid fund
Part of what $KIT brings in goes to people who need to be ready.
- Kits and radios
A public wallet that buys FM radios, walkie-talkies and LoRa boxes, given where they matter most.
- Starlink hotspots
Satellite internet terminals for shelters, clinics and community centres, where Starlink is authorised: a link to the outside world when local networks are down. They need power (battery or generator) and a subscription, so the fund covers both.
- Every spend public
Each payment is visible on-chain and explained on our channels.