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On-Premise AI.
Sovereignty by default.

Your models. Your data. Your hardware. No per-token fees. No vendor rate limits. LAN-speed inference behind your perimeter. The stack we sell is the stack we operate — running on our own two-machine failover cluster in Calgary.

The Case for Ownership

Why leading SMEs are bringing AI home.

For a decade, the industry told you to rent everything — models, compute, inference endpoints. The result: per-seat subscriptions that scale against you, data leaving your jurisdiction, and latency that kills real-time workflows.

On-premise AI flips the equation. You buy the hardware once. You pay a managed service fee for monitoring and updates. Your 36-month TCO is 60–75% lower than equivalent SaaS. Your reasoning never leaves your building.

In plain terms: instead of paying $40 or more per user every month forever, you buy the hardware once and own it. Your data stays in your building, your AI tools respond instantly, and your monthly costs stop creeping up every time you add a person or run one more query.

"We don't rent our factory. We don't rent our fleet. Why would we rent the intelligence that runs them?"
— The Sovereignty Argument
The Economics

36-Month TCO: Own vs. Rent

Enter your headcount and current tooling spend. The calculator returns a line-by-line leak table + the exact break-even month for your chosen hardware tier.

Reference Architecture

Three tiers. One unified stack.

EDGE TIER

Edge — ~$3K Capex

Mac Studio M4 / Mini PC + RTX 4060 Ti 16GB. 1–5 users. Local voice triage, light chat, document processing.

A compact box that fits on a desk — runs your AI tools, handles phone calls, and processes documents for a small office. Pays for itself in 4–6 months vs. monthly subscriptions.

Break-even: Month 4–6 vs $40/seat SaaS
WORKSTATION TIER

Workstation — ~$12K Capex

Threadripper + RTX 5090 32GB / RTX 6000 Ada 48GB. 5–25 users. Multi-agent funnels, high-throughput document analysis, UC transcription.

A powerful workstation that handles multiple AI workflows at once — for a department that needs serious processing power without waiting in line.

Break-even: Month 5–7 vs $40/seat + API
SERVER CLUSTER

Server — ~$30K Capex

2× EPYC + 2× RTX 6000 Ada (96GB VRAM). 25–100+ users. Full enterprise automation, HA customer-facing agents, unified VoIP/CRM pipeline, automatic failover.

A full server cluster for companies that can't afford any downtime — handles hundreds of users, runs customer-facing AI tools, and automatically switches to a backup if anything fails.

Break-even: Month 6–8 vs enterprise SaaS
The Ingemino Stack

What ships pre-configured on every tier.

You don't get bare metal and a README. You get a hardened, monitored, automatically failing-over platform — identical to the one running Ingemino's live systems right now.

This is the technical parts list for people who want it. Here's what it means in practice: every system comes fully set up and ready to go — your AI tools, your phone system, your monitoring, and your backups all work together from day one. If one machine fails, the other takes over automatically. Your team just uses it; we keep it running.

  • Inference Gateway — Local reasoning engine with model routing, quotas, and audit logs
  • STT/TTS Engine — Whisper (multi-language) + low-latency voice synthesis
  • Unified Portal — Next.js PWA with chat, voice, file upload, admin console
  • Monitoring — Promtail + Grafana (GPU heat, VRAM, latency, failover events)
  • Failover — Automatic VRRP/keepalived between paired nodes
  • Backup — Encrypted daily sync to secondary off-site target
  • Updates — MSP tier includes quarterly model refreshes & security patches
  • Access — Encrypted tunnel / WireGuard / Tailscale
"The stack we sell is the stack we operate. Two-machine failover cluster. Local inference. Zero vendor lock-in."
— Living Proof
Architectural Integrity

Matching Workload to Infrastructure.

We build on-premise because it wins for 95% of SME operational workloads.

We evaluate your requirements objectively and engineer appropriate boundaries:

Continuous Steady-State Operations

Daily customer triage, voice processing, lead conversion, and CRM automation are 60–75% cheaper on owned local hardware.

For the everyday stuff your business runs every single day — answering calls, qualifying leads, updating your CRM — owning the hardware costs a lot less than paying for it as a subscription forever.

Data Privacy & Sovereignty

Confidential client records and internal operations stay strictly on your premises behind your physical perimeter.

Your customers' confidential information never leaves your building — it's not sitting on a server somewhere else that you don't control.

Off-Site Continuity & Backups

Encrypted off-site replication to secondary data centers ensures disaster recovery without compromising primary sovereignty.

Your backups are still copied to a second, secure location in case of a fire or major failure — you get disaster protection without giving up control of where your main data lives.

LAN-Speed Latency

Sub-20ms real-time voice and application response times unconstrained by public internet hops.

Everything responds instantly because it's running on your own network instead of bouncing out to the internet and back.

Own Your Intelligence

Ready to deploy sovereign AI?

Start with a 36-month TCO calculation, then book an architecture review. We'll map the right tier to your workload.