About The Local AI Handbook

What This Site Is

The Local AI Handbook is a plain-language guide to running AI on your own hardware— for business owners who want AI’s usefulness without sending client records, contracts, health data, or financials to a cloud service. It covers how local AI works, what it costs, what privacy rules actually require, and what an office would realistically do with it — with a worked example on every major page.

Everything is free to read. No account is required. The site is location-agnostic: local deployment means your data stays on your hardware, wherever your building is.

Relationship to Moneli Automation

This site is built openly by Moneli Automation, a small engineering practice that deploys systems in regulated environments — healthcare, defence, and public sector. The guide exists both as a standalone resource and as the front door to a paid readiness assessment and setup service. That is how the site is funded, and we disclose it so you can weigh recommendations accordingly.

How We Deliver

Deployments are remote-first: most setups are configured on pre-prepared hardware shipped to your office, or installed remotely on hardware you already own, with support delivered over your own network access — not ours. On-site work is scoped case by case.

How Content Is Written and Verified

Every claim about a law cites the primary source — the statute text or the regulator’s own guidance. Every cost figure is a range with the assumptions and sources visible. Worked examples are fictional and labeled as illustrations; they show what a deployment looks like, not evidence of a specific client engagement. Each guide carries a last verified date and states what it does not claim to be.

Guides are technically reviewed within Moneli Automation’s engineering team.

Nothing here is legal advice. See the full disclaimer.

About This Website’s Own Privacy

Honest boundary: this website runs on cloud infrastructure (hosting, analytics, email delivery) like most websites. Client deployments are the opposite — they run on your hardware. The privacy policy lists exactly what this site collects and why.

Corrections

Found an error — a misread statute, a stale price, a broken claim? Tell us and we’ll fix it and update the page’s revision date. Corrections make the guide better; we treat them as contributions, not complaints.

See also the Terms, Privacy Policy, Disclaimer, and Accessibility statement.