🏗️ Building with Local AI: Practical Workflows
Your First Local Automation: Connecting to n8n 🤖
Last Updated: June 24, 2025Introduction: The “Aha!” Moment ✨ This is the moment. Everything we have built so far—the hardware foundation, the software command center, the models, the API—all comes together right now. In this guide, you will build your very first, end-to-end automation that uses your private, local AI as its brain. You will move from simply chatting...
Creating a Private Chat Interface for Your Local Models 💬
Last Updated: June 24, 2025Introduction: Beyond the Command Line 🤔 Congratulations! You have successfully set up your own sovereign AI lab. You have the hardware, you’ve installed the software, and you’ve downloaded a powerful AI model. You can now chat with it using your command line or terminal, but to truly unlock a fluid and productive workflow, you need...
The Power of APIs: Connecting Local AI to Other Tools 🔗
Last Updated: June 24, 2025Introduction: Beyond the Chat Window 🤔 You’ve built a private chat interface and can now have rich conversations with your local AI models. This is an incredible achievement, but it is only the beginning. The real magic happens when you unlock the ability to have your other applications talk to your AI. By connecting your...
Practical Project: Building a Private ‘Meeting Matrix Summarizer’ 📄
Last Updated: June 24, 2025Introduction: From Simple Tags to Structured Insights 🤔 In our last project, we built a simple automation to “tag” text. It was a fantastic first step. Now, it’s time to level up. We’re going to move beyond simple tags to extracting structured, actionable intelligence from one of the most common forms of unstructured business data:...
Practical Project: Creating a ‘Knowledge-Core Agent’ with Your Own Documents 🧠
Last Updated: June 24, 2025Introduction: Your Personal Corporate Brain 🤔 This is the project that changes everything. So far, we’ve used general-purpose AI models. Now, you will give your AI a custom-made brain, built exclusively from your own documents, your knowledge, and your data. You are about to build a “Knowledge-Core Agent”—a private, conversational AI that can answer questions...