What the work involves
Start with the work you want the system to do. That might be searching internal documents, drafting from approved material, or serving a model to an application. The workload and the number of people using it guide the hardware and software choices.
We can help choose or assemble the hardware, install the serving stack, configure access, and test the system with representative tasks. Our own setup includes dual AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 GPUs and an AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 system. We also have experience serving LLMs on Apple Silicon Mac Studios.
We agree on where documents, prompts, outputs, and backups can go. A local model is one part of that setup; connected services, permissions, and logs also need attention. Model quality and speed depend on the model, hardware, context size, and workload.
The handoff includes operating instructions and the agreed update and backup procedures. Ongoing maintenance and support are scoped separately so you know who is responsible after delivery.