Silo · storage on Havre
Silo gives your scans, photos, books, and music a clear place to live in Canada. Private collections are sealed before upload. Public libraries stay readable only when you have the right to publish them.
Preview only. Do not upload personal files yet.
Primary product goal
Silo is being built as a Google Drive-like space on Havre. The paid path starts with storage packages, client-side encryption, and device sync. Checkout remains closed in this preview until pricing, recovery, and restore evidence are proven.
Choose a fixed capacity package and see the terms before checkout.
Seal private files locally before they leave an authorized device.
Link your devices, resume transfers, and keep conflicts as separate copies.
Verify integrity and restore a prior version before the paid launch.
Two shelves, two rules
Scans, photos, and personal files stay unreadable to Havre. The client seals them before storage.
Books and music can remain web-readable only when you own or have the right to publish them.
Important: available on the web does not mean free to redistribute. Silo will keep public references, rights-cleared files, and private archives distinct.
Book intake
Silo will check a barcode, ISBN, or OCR result against the collection before it commits a book scan. An optional ISBN lookup can fill the edition fields from Open Library after a local camera scan. An exact match links to the existing object. A different edition stays available as its own edition.
Read a barcode or ISBN, then use OCR when the book has no reliable code.
Resolve the work, edition, language, format, and source metadata.
Check the tenant library for an exact content match before bytes are committed.
Link an exact duplicate, keep a distinct edition, or hold an uncertain scan for review.
Fixed packages
Package shapes are ready for review. The ranges are a draft commercial model, not live charges.
Scans and starter photo archives
A small private shelf for the files you want sealed before they leave your device.
Family photos and documents
A larger private archive for the everyday record of a household or small team.
Books, music, and mixed collections
A public library shelf for customer-owned, rights-cleared, or externally referenced media.
Long-retention copies and backup sets
A larger private tier after restore, retention, and archive behavior are proven.
Technical pilot
The reference client and a small desktop companion are now available for invited pilots on Windows, macOS, and Linux. The companion opens a local folder-sync window around the same trusted client, lets each device retain selected remote folders to save space, keeps the private key on your machine, hands recovery password prompts to the canonical client terminal, checks the account and device gates before sync, resumes encrypted transfers when a connection drops, and propagates tracked deletions only as recoverable tombstones after a newer-change check.
Preview boundary: checkout is closed and personal uploads are not invited yet. Run the local smoke test first; the bundle is for technical pilot work only.
The page includes the reference client, desktop companion, encryption module, requirements, and SHA-256 checksums.
Create a private virtual environment and verify both the encryption round trip and the desktop command boundary without contacting Havre.
After an invited account and package are ready, open the companion or CLI, register a device, choose retained remote folders, and verify the local sync folder.
Commercial basis · preview only
QReader and QScanner already have useful product pricing, but those purchases unlock app features. Silo is a separate storage contract: its CAD monthly amount will cover capacity, recovery, restore, payment, and support instead of silently borrowing an app entitlement.
The app does not hardcode the amount; 150 GB and 500 GB remain future server tiers.
Unlimited scans, OCR, signatures, and Pro tools; this is not a storage allowance.
Bought in Quicker Tools; it is not a Silo capacity or recovery purchase.
These are planning references, not Silo charges. Silo checkout stays closed until the owner-approved package amounts and the payment, renewal, recovery, restore, and support gates have dated evidence.
The path to sync
The first preview shows collections and packages. The technical pilot now has a sealed reference client and a desktop companion; paid access still waits on pricing, recovery, renewal, and restore evidence before personal data is invited.
Private archive or public library.
Encrypt private files. Declare a source or right for public media.
Resume transfers, keep versions, and restore before launch.
