Local AI: when it's required, when it's just wiser
PRIVATE
Local AI for your own affairs
For the household and the individual. A diagnosis, a divorce, a family dispute, tax and investment papers, a will — the documents with no company behind them and no compliance department between them and a provider.
- Privacy. The file never leaves the room. No copy at a provider to be subpoenaed, breached or used to train someone else's model.
- Autonomy. No account to be closed, no terms to be changed, no service to be discontinued under you. It works when the internet does not.
- Capability. The whole model, not a rate-limited version of it — running on the documents you would never upload.
- Being early, deliberately. Few households own this yet. That is part of what is being bought.
BUSINESS
Your own AI team, in your building
The company gets its own AI team on a machine it owns — an AI Legal Team, an AI Knowledge Worker, or an AI Marketing & Web Team. The work happens in the room — no AI company ever sees it — and the machine is yours. Three reasons this matters, in the order they usually arrive.
- Regulation. Data you cannot lawfully send to a third country, professional secrecy, client confidentiality, contracts that forbid it.
- Your own IP. The drawings, the code, the pricing model, the method. Nothing that defines how you compete should be a training example.
- Cost. Per-token pricing scales with use; a machine is bought once. Above a certain volume the arithmetic turns, and it stays turned.
Rules for the business → Roles for the business → The teams →
This page is for deciding where your AI work can run. The first list is what the rules stop; the second is what good judgement keeps off a cloud API. A machine you own is how both stop being a problem.
Everything in the first list is a rule. Everything in the second is a judgement, and it is yours to make. Not every business needs its own machine — they are not cheap, and we will not pretend otherwise. But if your work keeps landing in the second list, the sooner you move it in-house the better: we set it up for you, we show your team how to use it, and from then on no third party holds the prompt.
Not sure which side you are on?
Tell us what you would want it to read and we will say plainly whether local is required for you, merely wiser, or not worth it yet. No price list before anything has been scoped.