We size it to the work: a single workstation for a small business or practice; a small rack for a machine shop, a school, a clinic, a farm cooperative, a nonprofit, or a town hall. We select and buy the hardware at cost, assemble it, harden the operating system and the network, load the open-source model stack and the document and records tooling, set up encrypted backup to media you hold, write the runbook, and train the people who will keep it running. Hardware is typically a third to a half of the price; the rest is the work of making it yours.
Why local, in a valley like this oneResilience is the ability to keep working when the connection to somewhere else is cut. In December the roads closed and the town was an island for a day. The internet can close the same way, or be priced out from under you, or change its rules. A community whose records, planning tools and know-how live on machines it owns keeps functioning through all three.
Open source means the software cannot be withdrawn. Local means the data cannot be harvested. Documented means the next person can run it. It is the same principle as farming the valley floor instead of trucking food over the pass: capacity that lives here.
The same logic runs past a single machine. Two buildings a mile apart can hold a radio link that does not care whether the fiber is cut, and a handful of those make a small network that keeps working when the connection to the outside does not. Add a local copy of what matters, the maps, the records, the phone tree, the manuals, and a modest battery, and a neighborhood can coordinate through a flood or an outage instead of waiting it out. We build that the way we build everything else: your hardware, open software, documented, handed over. In December the people who needed it were the ones who could not get across the valley, and none of what they needed was complicated.
Work this actually fitsTrades and contractors. Estimating from your own past jobs rather than a national average. Takeoffs read straight from plan sets. Scheduling, change orders, submittals, and the paperwork that eats an evening. A crew's ten years of job history is a genuinely valuable dataset, and it should belong to the crew rather than to whichever platform digitizes it first.
Small manufacturing and shops. Quoting, inventory and reorder points, machine logs, maintenance records, quality notes, and the part-number sprawl every shop accumulates. Automating here does not mean replacing the people who run the machines. It means the office work stops being the bottleneck, and the knowledge stays in the building when someone retires.
Farms and food businesses. Field records, spray and harvest logs, certification paperwork, market and subscription books, and the compliance forms that arrive faster every year.
Clinics, schools, nonprofits and small government. Work with records that cannot leave the building, on a machine that never sends them anywhere.
Anyone facing a filing they cannot check. The same tools that read a plan set read a consultant's report, a rate case, or a capacity analysis. That is not hypothetical. It is how the briefing on this site was produced.
- Local compute setup. Hardware at cost, assembly, hardening, the open-source model stack, records tooling, encrypted backup, a written runbook, two days of on-site training.$30,000
- Document drafting and AI-assisted business consulting. The first two hours.$200 start
- Every hour after the first two.$50 / hour
- Custom AI-assisted website design and build. Like this one.$100 / hour
Prices as of September 2026. Hardware is billed at cost with the receipt. Travel inside the Snoqualmie Valley is included. We work with local businesses, farms, nonprofits and public offices.
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