Where Does It Run?
Every AI system has a venue, and the venue decides where your data goes, what it costs and what it can do.
Where does the work run?
Venue = where the rules run + where the model runs
Whether local is good enough is measurable, so benchmark it rather than guess.
A wrapper on your server, a frontier model through an API.
A local model on your own hardware.
Inside the tools your IT already permits, under your own login. This is where most first automations live, and no permission is needed to start.
If the model sits in someone else's cloud, so does everything you send it.
If contracts or your regulator say certain data never leaves the building, venue is the first filter, applied before you choose what to automate.
When to use Before you buy or build anything past a product.
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