unclouded.ai
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AI That Works Where Your Data Belongs

Use modern AI without automatically sending your organization's information to someone else's cloud. We design, deploy and manage practical AI workflows that can run on your network, on dedicated managed infrastructure, or through carefully selected cloud services. Your data. Your rules. Useful AI.

  • Private when it needs to be
  • Local when it makes sense
  • Cloud when it is useful

The architecture follows your requirements — not the other way around.

one organization, three rules

Stays on your network

  • Personnel records
  • Contracts and legal files
  • Source code
  • The search index itself

policy boundary

Managed private processing

  • Public meeting recordings
  • Overnight OCR of an archive

policy boundary

Commercial cloud, where allowed

  • Published website content
  • A burst of rented GPU capacity
The problem

You shouldn't have to choose between AI and data control

Plenty of organizations can see obvious opportunities for AI and hesitate for an entirely good reason: where is our data going?

Employees may be prohibited from uploading documents, recordings, source code, contracts, internal records or other sensitive information to public AI services. The usual response is to prohibit AI altogether.

There is another option.

We build AI systems around your organization's privacy requirements. Sensitive workloads can remain entirely on your network. Other workloads can run on dedicated infrastructure. Selected tasks can use cloud AI where your policies allow it.

You decide where the boundaries are. We build around them.

What we build

Put AI to work

AI is most valuable when it quietly handles work that people should not have to do manually. These are the five places that pays off most often.

How we think about it

The worker bee approach

Not every AI system needs to be a chatbot. Sometimes the most useful AI is a worker that quietly watches a queue and does its job.

A recording arrives. It gets transcribed. The transcript is normalized. A summary is generated. Metadata is extracted. The results are indexed. Another application receives the finished data.

Nobody needed to type a prompt. Nobody needed to copy and paste information into a website. The work simply got done.

In many cases the best AI system is one employees rarely think about.

We call these systems worker bees. They handle transcription, OCR, document extraction, embeddings, classification, security analysis, media processing, summarization, conversion and indexing — continuously, on a schedule, or in response to incoming jobs.

Reading the diagrams below

  • Runs on your network Runs inside your own environment.
  • Runs on managed Runs on infrastructure we operate for you.
  • Runs on cloud Uses a commercial cloud or AI service.
worker meeting-transcribe runs nightly on existing hardware
  1. extract audio from the recording Runs on your network
  2. transcribe speech-to-text Runs on your network
  3. identify speakers segmentation Runs on your network
  4. summarize local language model Runs on your network
  5. index transcript search + embeddings Runs on your network
worker archive-ocr one-time backlog, then idle
  1. ingest scans watch folder Runs on your network
  2. OCR pages batch, overnight Runs on managed
  3. extract metadata dates, parties, IDs Runs on managed
  4. publish index stays inside Runs on your network
Durability

Models are components, not dependencies

Today's best AI tool may not be tomorrow's. That should not require rebuilding your entire workflow.

  • A workflow wired directly to one speech-to-text product A transcription step with a defined input and output
  • An application that calls one commercial LLM API A summarization step that can be pointed anywhere
  • A search system tied permanently to one embedding model An index that can be regenerated when a better one lands
  • A pilot that only works on the machine it was built on A workload that can move on-prem, managed or cloud

A speech-to-text engine can change. An OCR engine can change. An embedding model can change. An LLM can change. A local workload can move to dedicated infrastructure or an approved cloud environment. The surrounding application keeps working because the pipeline produces a consistent result.

We build around the work — not around today's model.

Hardware

You buy the hardware

We are not trying to turn an AI project into a hardware sale. If your project needs dedicated equipment, we help you determine what makes sense based on the workload, performance requirements, budget and expected growth — and you purchase it directly.

That means our recommendation is based on what the project needs, not on what we can mark up.

Many workloads need far less hardware than people expect. An overnight document processing job does not need to finish in thirty seconds. A transcription queue may be perfectly happy working through recordings across the day. Existing servers, workstations, gaming GPUs or modest dedicated systems can perform substantial amounts of useful AI work.

When larger infrastructure genuinely is justified, we will tell you that too.

Design the environment before buying anything

Sometimes the right answer is a GPU server. Sometimes it is a workstation. Sometimes it is hardware you already own. We will tell you which.

Design Your AI Environment
How a project starts

Start with the work

We do not begin AI projects by asking which model you want to use. We start with questions about the work itself — and only then choose the technology.

  • What work are people doing manually?
  • What information do you already have?
  • What data cannot leave your network?
  • What data can be processed elsewhere?
  • How quickly does the result need to be available?
  • What systems need to receive the result?
  • How much human review is appropriate?
  • What happens when a better model becomes available?

Then we design the system.

What would you use AI for if your data stayed under your control?

Tell us what you are trying to accomplish. We will help work out what should run locally, what can run elsewhere, and what technology actually makes sense.