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Where it runs

Your AI-agent, wherever it lives best

AI is moving faster than anyone can keep up with on their own, and there's already a huge and growing advantage-gap between people putting it to work and those meaning to. And the hurdles are several at once: keeping pace with a field that reinvents itself monthly; wrapping your head around how a self-directed AI-agent even works; and then choosing and connecting the right tools in a sea of them.

Keeping pace and putting evolving AI to use is hard work. But I take on that work so you don't have to. Your first decision is the simplest one: where your always-on AI-agent should live. Every option below runs in your own account, is set up by me, and then grows with you over time. They differ only in whose hardware it runs on, how hands-off you wish to be, and what you pay for.

Where It Runs Who Does What
On Your Own Hardware A small, dedicated mini-PC you own.
In Your Own Cloud A server you rent in your own cloud account.
Hosted by Us We run it for you, on hardware we operate.
Setup
A paid, one-time setup with you, including your first 3 sessions
A paid, one-time setup with you, including your first 3 sessions
A paid, one-time setup with you, including your first 3 sessions
Your infrastructure
A small mini-PC dedicated to the job, bought or repurposed
A server you rent in your own cloud account, paid to your provider
We provide it; it's part of your subscription
Subscription
None
None
Monthly: keeps it running; patched; engine current. Shared by default, with an optional dedicated-server upgrade
Ongoing sessions
Pay-as-you-go: New AI-agent capabilities; Brainstorming; Tune-ups
Pay-as-you-go: New AI-agent capabilities; Brainstorming; Tune-ups
Pay-as-you-go: New AI-agent capabilities; Brainstorming; Tune-ups
Who keeps it online 24/7
You
Your cloud provider
Us
Where your data lives
On your own machine
In your own cloud
On our servers; your keys kept encrypted
Revoke access anytime
Yes, your keys and connections
Yes, your keys and connections
Yes, your keys and connections
On Your Own Hardware A small, dedicated mini-PC you own.
Setup
A paid, one-time setup with you, including your first 3 sessions
Your infrastructure
A small mini-PC dedicated to the job, bought or repurposed
Subscription
None
Ongoing sessions
Pay-as-you-go: New AI-agent capabilities; Brainstorming; Tune-ups
Who keeps it online 24/7
You
Where your data lives
On your own machine
Revoke access anytime
Yes, your keys and connections
In Your Own Cloud A server you rent in your own cloud account.
Setup
A paid, one-time setup with you, including your first 3 sessions
Your infrastructure
A server you rent in your own cloud account, paid to your provider
Subscription
None
Ongoing sessions
Pay-as-you-go: New AI-agent capabilities; Brainstorming; Tune-ups
Who keeps it online 24/7
Your cloud provider
Where your data lives
In your own cloud
Revoke access anytime
Yes, your keys and connections
Hosted by Us We run it for you, on hardware we operate.
Setup
A paid, one-time setup with you, including your first 3 sessions
Your infrastructure
We provide it; it's part of your subscription
Subscription
Monthly: keeps it running; patched; engine current. Shared by default, with an optional dedicated-server upgrade
Ongoing sessions
Pay-as-you-go: New AI-agent capabilities; Brainstorming; Tune-ups
Who keeps it online 24/7
Us
Where your data lives
On our servers; your keys kept encrypted
Revoke access anytime
Yes, your keys and connections

Your subscription and your sessions are two different things. Here's how they complement each other.

Your subscription keeps your hosted AI-agent alive and current: it's always-on and running 24/7, secure and patched, with its underlying engine kept up to date. That's the "keep the lights on" layer, and it never comes with a surprise bill.

A session is when we work on your agent itself. As you grow alongside your AI-agent, you'll want to unlock new capabilities, such as having it watch a video tutorial and capture every slide for you. And as it learns your habits and builds up skills over time, every now and then it'll need a tune-up to keep it performing at its best. That hands-on work, whether it's adding a fresh capability or sharpening what it already does, happens across sessions and is billed as we go.

The rule of thumb: the subscription keeps things running; sessions make things better.

When you run the AI-agent on your own hardware or in your own cloud account, there's no subscription to us, and keeping it powered and online is yours to handle. After our initial setup together, sessions are the only thing you pay us for: whenever you want an AI-agent tune-up or a new capability added, that's hands-on work we do together, billed as we go.

Not sure which one fits? That is exactly what your first session is for - we will choose the right home for your agent together, and you can move between them later as your needs change.

How your data is handled in each case is spelled out in Privacy & Terms and the FAQ.