Local AI: Run a Model on Your Computer. Give It a Job.

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Start with a local chat. Turn customer notes into a report. Build your first AI application.

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Sep 8

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You have used ChatGPT. You have tried Claude. But downloading an AI model and running it on your own computer can still feel like a project for someone with more technical experience.

Then come the names: Hugging Face, Gemma, LM Studio, Ollama. You wanted to try something useful. Instead, you have another list of things to learn before you can begin.

This article gives you a place to start and something concrete to finish.

We will take ten fictional customer notes and build a small application that turns them into a report on your computer. You will supply the information, choose the model and inspect what comes back. The notes, prompts and code are included.

You will begin with a simple local conversation. Then you will give the model a repeatable task. Finally, you will connect it to an application that reads the notes and saves the result.

There is a catch inside the exercise. One note contains an instruction telling the model to ignore the others. Another mixes praise with a complaint. A report can sound perfectly reasonable while mishandling either one.

Will your local model catch those details? And if it fails, will you know what to change?

That is what makes this worth building. You will have a way to check the output and decide whether the workflow actually saves you time. From there, we will explore how similar work could help a business review documents, prepare field reports or check drafts before sending them.

In this article, I walk you through model selection, setup and three practical builds, with complete code and an answer checklist. You will also get troubleshooting steps and three potential service ideas, including what to prove before offering one to a client...

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