Hosted services.
An option when the chosen providers suit your business data and intended use.
- Provider terms and data retention.
- Subscriptions and usage costs.
- Access and internet dependency.
LOCAL & PRIVATE AI
Choose where
your AI works.
Some tasks justify running AI on your own equipment. Others suit a cloud service or a combination of both. We start with your data, your team and the work you need to get done.
WHEN LOCAL MAKES SENSE
Your documents.
Your working conditions.
Local AI can help you draft, summarise or find information on a computer or server you control. It is worth exploring when confidentiality, internet connectivity or control of the environment matters to your business.
The right choice also depends on answer quality, the number of users, available equipment and who will maintain the system.
A local model does not make an entire workflow private. Email, web search and other connected services may send information elsewhere. We look at the complete data flow.
THREE APPROACHES
Deployment follows the need.
Infrastructure you control.
A model running on your equipment or private infrastructure chosen for your project.
- Hardware capacity and model quality.
- Accounts, permissions and backups.
- Updates and maintenance responsibility.
A deliberate split.
Some processing stays in the private environment; other tasks use approved services.
- Data permitted for each task.
- Connections and transfer rules.
- What happens when a service is unavailable.
Hosting location is one part of the decision. Access, agreements, intended use and safeguards also need consideration.
THE FIRST PILOT
Test a useful task
before choosing hardware.
For example: an assistant that finds a procedure in an approved document collection and shows the passages it used.
A defined scope
Approved documents, identified users and the questions the assistant should help answer.
Practical checks
Answer quality, sources, missing information, permissions and response time under expected conditions.
An informed decision
An estimate of equipment, costs and maintenance, with the limitations observed during the pilot.
PLANNING TOGETHER
Life after
installation.
Who adds documents? Who manages access? How do you recover after a failure? Those questions belong in the project.
Offline operation needs verification across the complete workflow: model, documents, tools and dependencies. It requires deliberate preparation.
Generated answers still need checking for important decisions. A useful assistant should also indicate when the available information does not contain an answer.
Explore a document-search exampleLET’S MAKE IT USEFUL
Let’s discuss your privacy requirements.
Tell me what takes up your time. We’ll work out what is actually worth automating.