AI Handbook

Articles, guides and the latest updates from the DABO team.

Local AI

A private ChatGPT alternative for business: AI that runs on your own machine

Get ChatGPT-style answers, document Q&A and file generation without sending company data to a public cloud — and without per-token fees.

2026-10-11
Knowledge Assistant

How to chat with your company documents privately — with cited sources

Turn PDFs, Word files, spreadsheets and scanned paper into an assistant that answers in seconds, cites the page it used, and never uploads anything.

2026-10-11
Security & Compliance

Is ChatGPT safe for confidential company data? Risks and a safer setup

Public AI tools are useful, but pasting contracts, code or customer data into them creates real risk. Here is how to keep the productivity and lose the exposure.

2026-10-11
Cost & ROI

AI token costs explained: why per-token pricing gets expensive — and the fixed-cost alternative

Tokens, context windows and agents make cloud AI bills hard to predict. Learn how the pricing works and when a fixed-cost Local AI makes more sense.

2026-10-11
Security & Compliance

GDPR-compliant AI assistant: keeping personal data in-house with on-premise AI

Data-protection laws make cloud AI tricky for personal data. Running the AI on your own servers removes the hardest questions about transfers and processors.

2026-10-11
AI Applications

What is an AI desktop agent? Automating Outlook, Excel and files — safely

AI agents can now use the apps on an employee's computer. Here is what they are good at, where the risks are, and how DABO AI Desktop keeps a human in control.

2026-10-11
AI Infrastructure

Local AI hardware requirements: which GPU, how much VRAM, and does a Mac work?

You do not need a data centre to run private AI. Here is what a single workstation can do, how VRAM limits model size, and when to scale up.

2026-10-11
AI Applications

Private real-time meeting translation for Zoom, Teams and Google Meet

Live translated subtitles and reply suggestions in every participant's language — processed on your own server instead of a cloud service.

2026-10-11
AI Applications

AI workflow automation for small businesses: scheduled reports, summaries and emails that run themselves

Let AI look things up, summarise, build the file and email the result on a schedule — with templates for common jobs and nothing leaving your network.

2026-10-11
AI Applications

AI technical analysis on your own server: candlestick charts, indicators and company valuation

Analyse stocks, indices, FX, gold, oil and crypto with indicators and professional charts — numbers computed from real price data, interpreted by AI, kept in-house.

2026-10-11
Fundamentals

Encryption and Access Control: Who Can See What in Your Local AI System

Keeping the AI server inside the building doesn't automatically make the data safe. Encryption and role-based access control are two protections that still matter, even when everything already sits within the company's own walls.

2026-09-16
Fundamentals

Network Security for Local AI: Isolating the System from the Rest of Your Network

"Data never leaves the business" is only half the story. If the AI system shares a network with every employee device without proper isolation, one infected laptop is enough to reach the AI's data.

2026-09-16
Fundamentals

Dell, HPE, Supermicro, Lenovo: Which Server Makers Lead in Local AI?

Choosing the right physical server platform matters just as much as choosing the right AI model. A look at what four major server makers offer for enterprise Local AI in 2026.

2026-09-16
Fundamentals

Multi-GPU Architecture: When One Graphics Card Isn't Enough for Local AI

The bigger the AI model and the more concurrent users, the sooner a single GPU runs out of memory or processing speed. Combining multiple GPUs the right way is the key to scaling Local AI without rebuilding from scratch.

2026-09-16
Fundamentals

SAN, NAS, DAS: Which Storage Architecture Fits Your Local AI?

No matter how powerful the GPU is, it means little if the storage layer behind it isn't fast or safe enough. SAN, NAS, and DAS are three common storage architectures — each suited to a different stage of a Local AI rollout.

2026-09-16
Fundamentals

Replication in Local AI: What Happens When a Server Fails?

A single AI server is a single point of failure — if it goes down, your AI assistant goes down with it. Replication and a standby backup server are how you keep the system running even when hardware fails.

2026-09-16
Fundamentals

What Are LLM and vLLM? Why Inference Speed Decides Your AI's Cost

LLM is the language brain behind every AI assistant — but running it efficiently is the real challenge. vLLM is the technology that solves it, letting a single GPU serve more users at a lower cost.

2026-09-16
Fundamentals

What Is On-Premise (Local) AI? When Should a Business Choose It Over Cloud AI

On-premise AI runs directly on a business's own infrastructure instead of sending data to an outside server — suited for businesses with sensitive data, a need for predictable long-term cost, or regulatory requirements on where data is stored.

2026-09-14
AI Applications

Internal AI Assistant: natural Q&A over your documents, integrated across channels.

More than a chat box — DABO's internal AI assistant understands context, cites its sources, and shows up wherever your team already works.

2026-09-06
AI Trends

AI trends 2026: agentic AI, domain-specific models and sovereign AI

Three waves are reshaping enterprise AI — and all of them lean toward self-reliance.

2026-09-05
AI Infrastructure

Choosing an AI server for Local AI: GPUs, VRAM and configuration types

The heart of a Local AI system is the GPU server — the right configuration decides both performance and cost.

2026-09-03
Local AI

Why should enterprises choose Local AI?

The question today is no longer "should we use AI", but "where will your data live when you use it".

2026-09-01
Knowledge Assistant

How does an internal knowledge assistant work?

Turn thousands of scattered documents into an expert that answers instantly, with citations.

2026-08-28
AI Infrastructure

On-premise AI infrastructure: Docker, Kubernetes, vector DBs and air-gapped setups

A solid Local AI system is more than a model — it is a well-architected infrastructure layer.

2026-08-25
Local AI

What is Local AI and why is it the defining trend of 2026?

AI running right next to your data — private, fast, and independent of the Internet.

2026-08-20
By Industry

Hospitals: AI that supports doctors without ever leaving the hospital

Medical records are the most sensitive data in any industry — and doctors still spend too much time on paperwork instead of patients.

2026-08-17
By Industry

High-tech & Semiconductor: protecting IP is protecting the edge itself

Designs, source code and R&D data are assets that must never leak — even while using AI to speed up development.

2026-08-16
By Industry

Pharmaceuticals: leaking research data means losing the competitive edge entirely

Proprietary formulas, clinical trial data, and strict GxP compliance — three requirements no public AI can meet.

2026-08-15
Security & Compliance

The New Generation of Personal Data Protection Laws: Why Local AI Sidesteps "Cross-Border Transfer"

From Europe to Asia, the Middle East and Latin America, a new generation of personal data protection laws is tightening the rules on "cross-border data transfer" considerably — and this is exactly where Local AI shows its clearest advantage.

2026-08-15
By Industry

Energy & Utilities: critical infrastructure safety is non-negotiable

SCADA/OT data must stay fully isolated from the Internet, while reactive maintenance still causes costly disruption.

2026-08-14
By Industry

Manufacturing: every hour of downtime is money, every leaked formula is a lost edge

Manufacturing know-how must be protected, unplanned downtime is costly, and OT systems are inherently disconnected from the Internet.

2026-08-13
By Industry

Insurance: claims speed and the ability to stop fraud

Backlogged claims, extremely sensitive health data, and insurance fraud that's hard to spot in a huge volume of records.

2026-08-12
Technology

Open-source LLMs on-premise: Llama, Qwen, Mistral, DeepSeek

You do not need an expensive closed model — open models are now strong enough to self-host.

2026-08-12
By Industry

Telecom: subscriber data is an asset, and it must stay in-country

Tens of thousands of daily support calls, massive network data, and strict localization requirements — telecom's unique challenge.

2026-08-11
By Industry

Audit: from sampling 10% to checking 100% of records

The sheer volume of records forces auditors to sample — AI changes that equation entirely.

2026-08-10
By Industry

Law firms: a wrong citation is never just a technical mistake

In law, the accuracy of a citation determines professional reputation — RAG over real documents solves exactly this problem.

2026-08-09
By Industry

Education: turning learning materials into a 24/7 teaching assistant

Overloaded lecturers, students lacking after-hours support, and student records needing absolute protection — Local AI solves all three at once.

2026-08-08
Knowledge Assistant

RAG: how AI answers from your documents and cites its sources

RAG combines document retrieval with answer generation, so AI responds accurately and verifiably.

2026-08-08
By Industry

Logistics: every percent of operating cost saved is direct profit

Manually optimized routes, inaccurate demand forecasts, and slow paperwork — a familiar challenge for every logistics company.

2026-08-07
By Industry

Retail & e-commerce: the right offer to the right person, without exposing data

Thousands of daily questions, inaccurate inventory forecasts, and generic product suggestions — three familiar bottlenecks in retail.

2026-08-06
By Industry

Construction: one wrong-version drawing can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars

Massive project records, confidential bidding data, and a decision delayed by even a few days is enough to blow a project's budget.

2026-08-05
Company News

DABO launches its Local AI platform in 2026

A knowledge and automation platform running fully inside enterprise infrastructure, launching in 2026.

2026-08-05
By Industry

Real estate: response speed and valuation accuracy decide the deal

Every minute of delayed response is a lead lost to a competitor — while transaction data still needs absolute confidentiality.

2026-08-04
By Industry

FDI enterprises: powerful AI while complying with two layers of law

Foreign-invested enterprises must balance the host country's data-localization law with parent-company policy — Local AI makes that possible without trade-offs.

2026-08-03
By Industry

Internal AI for SMBs: powerful without being expensive

SMBs don't need an in-house AI team to compete — just the right tool, the right cost, and data that never leaves the business.

2026-08-02
Cost & ROI

Local AI vs Cloud AI cost: ownership and the break-even point

Cloud is cheap to start but costly to scale; on-premise costs more upfront but cheaper as usage grows.

2026-07-30
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