Custom AI Deployment
Some data should never leave your building. I deploy private and local models, build the tooling around them, and keep you off a single vendor's roadmap.
Custom AI Deployment Services I Offer
Private & Local Models
Models running on hardware you control, for customer records, health information and anything else you cannot paste into a public chat window. I run this setup myself for exactly that reason.
Custom Tooling
Connectors that give a model safe, scoped access to your own systems, so it works with your data instead of guessing at it.
Data Handling
Clear rules about what goes where, what gets retained and what never leaves. Written down, so your team can follow it without asking every time.
Cost & Vendor Control
An architecture that lets you move between providers, and a realistic view of what each option costs once you are past the trial tier.
How a Deployment Project Works
Requirements & Constraints
We establish what the model needs to do and, more importantly, what your data is not allowed to do.
Choose the Architecture
Local, private cloud or hosted API, chosen against your actual sensitivity and budget rather than a default.
Build & Secure
The deployment goes up with scoped access, logging and a tested fallback for when something is unavailable.
Document & Hand Over
Your team gets the runbook and the training, so this is infrastructure you own rather than a dependency on me.
Custom AI Deployment FAQs
Why run a model locally instead of using ChatGPT or Claude?
Is a local model as good as a frontier model?
What hardware does this need?
What happens if I want to move to a different provider later?
From the Blog
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Let's talk about what your data allows, what you are trying to automate, and what that actually costs.
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