The ProductivIA platform is currently available by invitation only. Sign up for the waiting list through the forms at the bottom of the page or on the About page — a message will follow as soon as access opens up, before any installation is needed.
Full agentic capability is wanted without changing OS. The path to follow is installing Boréal for Windows — a native program downloadable from the Download page. No USB stick, no reformatting.
This is the right place with an active ProductivIA account already in hand. A PC will be turned into a native agentic station, built for the ProductivIA platform and compatible with Matania in residence if activated. If the goal is to serve ProductivIA on-site, server mode can then be activated from the interface. Follow the steps below.
Not supported: Mac (Apple Silicon or recent Intel with T2 chip), Chromebook, ARM tablets, Raspberry Pi.
On the Apple Silicon and Mac T2 side, the processor architecture and the boot chain sealed by the manufacturer make installing another operating system impractical. Chromebooks follow a comparable logic: the firmware is deliberately restrictive toward alternative systems, and unlocking it requires hardware manipulations outside the product's current scope. Raspberry Pi and ARM tablets run on an architecture different from the one Boréal OS is compiled for.
On the legacy firmware side, Boréal OS assumes a modern, single, simple boot chain — one boot path, written cleanly by the installer into the motherboard's non-volatile memory. This simplicity is itself a security trait: fewer paths, less surface, less possible drift.
On the GPU and Matania residence side, the absence of a compatible GPU does not prevent Boréal OS from working — Matania simply does not install locally, and inference is served remotely by the platform. For a client workstation, a recent GPU is enough to run a workstation-class Matania. To serve Matania organization-wide from a local server, the hardware target is 16 GB of dedicated memory.
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These settings can be reverted at any time to return to the previous system.
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From the welcome menu, open Install to disk. The installer lists eligible internal disks, asks for a double text confirmation, then copies the image and configures the firmware.
Once installation is complete — five to ten minutes — remove the stick and restart. Boréal OS boots straight into the ProductivIA platform. It can be used as a client, or server mode can be activated from the interface to serve ProductivIA locally. If Matania was activated in residence, it can then tune and personalize the machine according to usage.
The installer only offers internal disks — the USB stick it is running from is automatically excluded, as is any removable device, along with any disk clearly too small to hold the image. The target is then chosen and confirmed twice, through explicit text entry: the exact phrases "erase this disk" and "install Boréal OS" must be typed. No shortcut, no hover-confirmation — the operation is deliberately hard to trigger by accident.
Once both confirmations are collected, the system image is copied to the target disk, then resized to that disk's actual capacity (the system partition is extended to the available space). A clean new boot entry, named "Boréal OS," is written into the motherboard firmware. That is all: no residual layer of uncertainty, no dual-boot mode to maintain, no third-party boot manager to configure.
Throughout the operation, progress and logs can be reviewed locally. If a step were to fail midway, the machine would remain bootable from the USB stick and the installation could be restarted without risk to the hardware.
Unplug and replug the stick. The application deliberately hides the disk containing the active Windows install — this is a safety measure and is expected.
Check that Secure Boot is indeed disabled and that the mode is set to UEFI. On some models, also disable Fast Boot. If the boot menu does not open, the key varies by manufacturer (see step 3).
Our sovereign approach means signing our software independently of foreign authorities. Windows may show a warning on first launch: click More info then Run anyway.