The Data Letter

The Data Letter

Three pieces of free software install a private AI on your laptop.

For your team. For your work. For your data.

Hodman Murad's avatar
Hodman Murad
Jun 18, 2026
∙ Paid

The operators, managers, and technical teams I write for will spend the next year having two kinds of conversations about AI. The first is the one most people are still having: which vendor should we use, what does it cost, and what happens if they raise their prices?

The second is the one a smaller group has already started: what does our team own, and what runs regardless of whether others are having an outage today?

This article is for people moving into the second conversation. The full step-by-step build for a private AI on your laptop in under an hour. Free, offline, yours.

Keep reading with a 7-day free trial

Subscribe to The Data Letter to keep reading this post and get 7 days of free access to the full post archives.

Already a paid subscriber? Sign in
© 2026 Hodman Murad · Privacy ∙ Terms ∙ Collection notice
Start your SubstackGet the app
Substack is the home for great culture