Local AI & data control
No AI vendor sees your data.
Most AI products send your prompts and your business content across the internet to infrastructure owned by someone else. Agynx does not. Every client gets a machine dedicated to their business alone, and the models run on it.
What that means concretely
Three facts, all of which you can verify before signing anything.
- A machine to yourself. Each client business runs on hardware dedicated to it — not a container on a shared host, and not a tenant in a shared database. There is no data path between one client's system and another's.
- The models run there too. Inference happens on that same machine, wherever it sits. No prompt and no document is sent to an external AI provider, because there is no external AI provider in the architecture.
- Your building, or ours. The system can run on hardware in your own premises, or on hardware dedicated to you in our colocation space. The architecture is the same either way; what changes is who racks the machine.
Typical cloud AI, and this
Not a claim that one is always right. A description of where the differences actually fall, so you can decide which matters to your business.
| Typical cloud AI product | Agynx | |
|---|---|---|
| Where your content goes | Prompts and business content are transmitted to a third-party AI provider. | Content is processed on the machine dedicated to your business. |
| Who runs the model | An AI vendor, on their infrastructure, under their terms. | The model runs on the machine dedicated to you — in our colocation space, or in your building if you host it. No AI vendor either way. |
| Tenancy | Shared infrastructure, separated by software. | A separate physical machine per client business. |
| External exposure | Every processed item crosses the public internet at least once. | Processing does not require sending your content off the machine. |
| Internet dependency | Processing stops when the provider is unreachable or rate-limits you. | Local processing does not depend on a provider being available. |
| Vendor terms changing | Pricing, retention, model behaviour and data use can change under you. | The model serving your business does not change until it is changed deliberately. |
| Traceability | Often a result with no verifiable path back to a source. | Prepared values keep a pointer to the source that produced them. |
| Human review | Varies; frequently absent by default. | Consequential steps wait for a person, as part of the workflow definition. |
What local does not mean
We would rather say this plainly than have you discover it later.
Running on dedicated hardware removes one category of risk. It does not remove the others, and any vendor telling you otherwise is selling you something.
Local does not automatically mean
- Secure — that depends on configuration, not location
- Compliant with any particular regulation
- Backed up, or recoverable after a failure
- Patched and maintained
- Protected from someone with legitimate access
Still matters, either way
- Authentication and access control
- Encryption, in transit and at rest
- Backup, restore, and tested recovery
- Patching and operational practice
- Retention, deletion, and who can read what
We do not publish security certifications we do not hold, and we do not claim that your data can never leave the system. What we describe here is the architecture. The operating practice around it is a conversation, and we will have it in specifics.
Ask us these four
They are the questions a good security review asks. Ask them of us, and ask them of anyone else you are evaluating.
Who can reach my system, and from where?
Administrative access is the part most vendors describe vaguely. Ask for the specific mechanism, who holds it, and what happens if that person leaves.
Where do the keys that decrypt my data live?
If the answer is a central place shared with other customers, that is worth knowing before you sign, not afterwards.
Does anything leave my machine?
Monitoring, health alerts, telemetry and backups all leave somewhere. Ask what each one carries and where it goes.
How is my backup isolated?
Backups are where isolation quietly ends for many vendors. Ask where they are stored and who can restore them.
We will answer all four with specifics, in writing, for your deployment. If any answer is not yet where we want it, we will tell you that too.
Founding design partners
Bring us your constraints.
If data control is the reason automation has not happened in your business yet, that is exactly the conversation we want to have.