Opinion
Renting intelligence is not owning it
Why a cloud model is a lease on a cognitive process, and what a local stack gives a creator back.
7 minCase Studies
Case Studies
How we built our local AI stack
The models, the server and the agents on an M4 Pro, and the constraint that decided each one.
8 min
Case Studies
What we saved by hosting our own AI
A studio’s year without subscriptions, with the numbers.
10 min
Case Studies
A week of coding with no cloud
OpenCode pointed at Ollama with no fallback: what worked, what broke, and what we would do again.
10 min
Case Studies
The cheapest Mac for local AI is a memory question
The honest answer is not a price tag but the memory you can afford to buy.
9 min
Case Studies
How we judge open-source AI tools
Inside the Atlas, our running record of every tool we test: one template and one status ladder for every verdict.
10 min