Quotes, customer lists, production recipes, patient records... Many businesses want to try AI tools but hesitate to upload this data to a cloud service. Rightly so.
There is a way: run the model on the company's own server. Open models (such as Llama, Mistral and Qwen) have improved so much over the last two years that a single-GPU server can host an assistant that answers questions from internal documents.
A typical setup looks like this:
- Documents (PDF, Word, email archive) are indexed inside the company.
- When a question comes in, the relevant passages are found and the model writes its answer based on them.
- The assistant only sees the documents the person asking is allowed to access.
- No data leaves the company network, and the logs stay with you.
It isn't right for every job: it can't always match the quality of the largest cloud models, and the hardware is an investment. But for tasks such as preparing quotes, searching technical documentation and answering questions about internal procedures, it saves a lot of time.
At SMB Teknoloji we install and maintain AI solutions that run inside the business (local language model, document search, access control).