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Six free, plain-English guides that take you from zero to a private AI you own. No jargon, no sales pitch in the middle, and every step uses free software.
Most people think running their own AI means buying a server room. It doesn't. If your computer has 16 GB of RAM, you can run a useful AI on it this afternoon, for free, with nobody watching what you ask. The expensive part of AI is training a model. You're not doing that. You're running one, which is just loading a file and asking it questions.
Read these in order, or jump to the one you need. Each ends with the same honest offer: set it up yourself, free, or ask me to do it for you.
The one-sentence answer, plus the three RAM tiers that decide what your machine can run.
16 GB is the sensible default. The tier table, and what a used office PC in Dubai costs.
Install Ollama or LocalAI, run your first model, and ask it something real.
Stop the hallucinations: make the model answer from your files, with sources.
The five boxes to tick so your private AI doesn't become a public breach.
What data residency actually means in the Gulf, and the four answers regulators want.
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I set this up for businesses in Dubai and the Gulf, on their own hardware, so client data never leaves the building. It starts with a free conversation about what you actually need.
