Why Local Compute Matters: The Case for On-Premise Industrial AI
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Why Local Compute Matters: The Case for On-Premise Industrial AI

TTravis Hutton
January 5, 2026
5 min read

The Cloud Trap

Most "AI" solutions today are just wrappers around OpenAI or Anthropic APIs. They take your proprietary blueprints, financial data, and client lists, and send them to a server farm in Virginia. for many industrial clients, this is a non-starter.

The Hutton Approach: Local First

We believe in Sovereign Intelligence. Your data should stay on your hardware (or our secure local private cloud in Kamloops).

Using open-weights models like Llama 3 or Mixtral, fine-tuned on your specific company documents, we can build RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) systems that know your business inside out without ever sending a byte to Big Tech.

Latency and Reliability

When you're running a dispatch system for a fleet of trucks, you can't afford a 500ms delay or a "Service Temporarily Unavailable" error. Local compute means your AI agents run at the speed of your internal network. It means 100% uptime, even when the internet goes down.