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. You buy the hardware on our specification, so it is yours from the first day; we 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. The work of making it yours is what we sell.
Why local, in a valley like this oneResilience is the ability to keep working when the connection to somewhere else is cut. Last December the roads closed for about three days, and on December 11 the town was cut off. 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 of its own 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Open source means the software cannot be withdrawn.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.
A town hall has the same problem from the other side. At a Duvall council meeting in August 2025 a council member warned that when a city uses these tools, everything asked of them becomes a public record it must keep, at a cost that is hard to track; the city administrator answered that a policy was coming and that the city could only use tools whose requests are logged. That is the right standard, and it rules out most of what is sold to cities. A system the town owns, run in the open, logs every request as the record the law already requires. The capacity to check official arithmetic is worth more when the town itself holds it than when any one business does, and the honest shape of that is a room the public owns and a cooperative runs. We would help build it. We would not own it.
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.
- Local compute setup, workstation. One machine for a small business or practice. Assembly, hardening, the open-source model stack, records tooling, encrypted backup, a written runbook, one day of on-site training. Hardware on your own purchase, to our specification: typically $4,000 to $8,000.$10,000
- Local compute setup, small rack. For a machine shop, a school, a clinic, a farm cooperative, a nonprofit, or a town hall. The same work at rack scale, with two days of on-site training. Hardware on your own purchase, to our specification: typically $20,000 to $50,000.$30,000
- Document drafting and AI-assisted business consulting. The first two hours, as one sitting.$200
- Every hour after the first two.$100 / hour
- Custom AI-assisted website design and build.$100 / hour
Prices as of September 2026. The setup prices are for the work; you buy the hardware yourself, to our specification, and it is yours from the first day. Travel inside the Snoqualmie Valley is included. We work with local businesses, farms, nonprofits and public offices.
Public offices, with one rule: we take no paid work from the City of Duvall or King County on any matter we argue in public, and any other work for them is competed and disclosed at dontbothellduvall.com before we bid. The town's own room, if it is built, is owned by the public and run by a cooperative; we would build it and not own it. It is another scale from anything on this list.
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