When private or on-premises AI fits
- Your data includes personal or confidential information that can’t go to a public API.
- You need to control where data is processed and stored, for example to keep it in the EU.
- Volumes are high enough that per-call API costs add up.
- The task is narrow enough that a small, fine-tuned model can do it well.
Small language models, fine-tuned for the job
For focused tasks such as classification and extraction, a small model fine-tuned on your data can be accurate, fast and cheap to run on your own hardware. We benchmark several candidate models on your task and choose the one that performs best, rather than defaulting to the largest.
Open-source models, run locally
Where a task needs a larger model, we run open-source LLMs inside your environment, for example with Ollama, and connect them to your systems with the same agent and flow frameworks we use elsewhere.
Frequently asked questions
What is private AI?
Private AI means running AI models inside infrastructure you control, so prompts, documents and outputs are not sent to a third-party model provider.
Does running AI on-premises make us GDPR or EU AI Act compliant?
Not on its own. Compliance depends on the use case, the data and your processes. Keeping models and data inside your infrastructure does give you direct control over where personal data goes and what is logged, which makes those obligations easier to meet and to demonstrate.
Are small language models good enough?
For narrow, well-defined tasks they often are, especially once fine-tuned. We test them against your real data before committing, and keep a larger model or a human for the cases they can’t handle confidently.