Local AI automation · Solo operators
AI that runs on your hardware: your machine, your models, your rules.
Self-hosted AI systems and the kits that run them. The cloud vendors rent you OpenAI by the token. We hand you the keys.
Operator Co ships the Local AI Stack Audit, free this week.
Ollama, n8n, ComfyUI, Open WebUI, OpenHands, LiteLLM and Crawl4AI all shipped — each with a primary source and a verdict: update now, watch, or skip.
Read the launch note →
Mobile Detailer True Hourly Ledger
See what each detail actually paid — after products, drive and admin — then quote off your real hourly. One of five new trade ledgers just added.
See it →
The €0 cloud exit: 15 tools, one GPU.
How a used RTX 3090 killed ~€200/mo in subscriptions. Full swap list.
Open the blog →Just shipped
New in the store
Downloadable kits you own outright: PDF guides, runnable code, calculators. Buy once, keep forever.
Map €100+/month in AI subscriptions to 15 free local replacements: ChatGPT to Ollama, Midjourney to ComfyUI, Zapier to n8n, with a step-by-step 60-minute audit method and real break-even math.
Blog & News
Field notes from the local-AI trenches
The latest news and field notes from the local-AI trenches: break-even math, build logs, and what we learned shipping self-hosted systems. This week's local-AI release roundup is live now.
The September Release Wave: eight updates in twelve days
n8n, Ollama, ComfyUI, Open WebUI, and OpenHands — source links, hardware reality, and a try/watch/skip verdict.
Read →
Open repositories worth inspecting before you install
The maintained repos behind the local stack — what they do, where the risk sits, and who should use them.
Read →
Facts first. Interpretation second. Hype never.
Every item gets a primary source, a date, a hardware note, and a practical try/watch/skip verdict.
Read →Why local
Local is the architecture, not a slogan.
Cloud AI sends your client contracts, SOPs, and prompts to a vendor. Local AI keeps them on your drive. Here is the actual math.
A used RTX 3090 (~€800) replaces roughly €200/month in cloud subscriptions. Over three years that is about €6,400 kept in your pocket, and your data never leaves the building. Where cloud is genuinely better (rare, specific cases), we say so.
Total Sovereignty
Your data never leaves your machine. No APIs, no scraping, no cloud vendor lock-in. True local-first architecture.
Zero Cloud Fees
Stop paying $200/month for rented capability. Buy the workflow once, run it forever on the hardware you already own.
Hardware Driven
Built specifically to max out consumer GPUs. Turn that 24GB VRAM rig from a gaming toy into an automated operational engine.
Proof
What we actually shipped.
We sell the systems we run. No stock photos of other people's dashboards: here's the real stack.
The break-even math is public: a used RTX 3090 (~€800) replaces roughly €200/month in cloud subscriptions, about €6,400 kept over three years, and your data never leaves the building. Read the full swap list in The Local AI Stack for Solo Operators.
Compare
See how local-AI ownership stacks up.
Honest side-by-sides against the enterprise vendors and the cloud bill.
FAQ
Honest answers to the usual questions.
On the self-hosted (Model B) build, no. Ollama, ComfyUI, and your RAG stack run on your hardware. We only see what you choose to share with us during the build.
Honest tiers: many products run on CPU for small corpora, or on an 8GB laptop GPU. The audit guide lists exactly what fits at 8 / 16 / 24GB VRAM.
A used RTX 3090 (~€800) replaces about €200/month in subscriptions. Over three years that is ~€6,400 kept. We state the break-even math in the free audit.
Local-first means you control availability. The system runs on your own hardware, so there is no third-party AI vendor in the loop, your data stays on your machine.
Almost. Where a cloud tool is genuinely better for a specific job, we say so rather than force a local workaround.