Open models on your own hardware or private cloud, answering questions over your documents for one workflow.
Self‑hosted AI
Timeline, price and terms
4 to 6 weeks, plus hardware delivery if you buy hardware
- Pilot
- $12,000
We recommend it only when the workflow diagnostic shows it pays.
50% before we start, 50% on delivery.
The code, the prompts and your data are yours. NDA before the first call.
What you get
- Open models running on your hardware or private cloud.
- Search and answers over your own documents (RAG).
- One workflow, running from start to finish.
- Your documents stay on your own systems.
How it runs
The workflow diagnostic tells us whether self-hosting pays for your case.
We install an open model on your hardware or private cloud.
We index your documents so the model can answer from them.
Your team uses it for one workflow.
Questions
How long does the pilot take?
4 to 6 weeks once your hardware or private cloud is ready. If you need to buy hardware, add the supplier’s delivery time. We tell you what to buy before you order.
Is the hardware included?
No. Hardware and cloud hosting are billed to your own accounts at cost. We add no markup.
Why only after a workflow diagnostic?
Running your own models adds hardware and upkeep. We recommend it only when the diagnostic shows it pays.
What is RAG?
Retrieval-augmented generation. The model looks up the relevant passages in your documents before it answers.
Which models do you use?
Open models. We pick one that fits your hardware and the workflow.
Reading on this
- Local LLM vs API cost: a 4B model on a 2019 Core i9
We ran Qwen3-4B on a 2019 Core i9 with no graphics card to sort 20 support emails: 5.8 seconds each, 17 of 20 categories right, a few cents per 1,000.
- Is it safe to put confidential documents into ChatGPT?
What ChatGPT, Claude and Copilot keep, train on and for how long on each plan, linked to each vendor's policy, plus the admin settings to change.
- Open WebUI vs LibreChat for business: permissions and SSO
How Open WebUI and LibreChat control which staff see which documents, plus SSO, audit logs, licences, setup and a two-role leak test to run before rollout.
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