KVP Forge - Local AI Infrastructure
Run your own AI. On your own hardware.
We do the technical setup for you and with you - designing, building, installing, tuning, and benchmarking local AI systems for individuals and businesses. Your machine, your model, your data. No cloud. No subscriptions. No vendor reading your documents.
We run local AI on our own bench every day. What we build for you is what we use - and we do the hands-on setup with you, not from a slide deck. Real people, real office in Peabody, MA.
Why run AI on your own machine?
Same philosophy as self-custody: you control the thing that matters.
Your data stays home
Client files, contracts, patient notes, ledgers - none of it goes to a vendor's servers. Your network, your machine, your rules.
No subscription math
Hardware is bought once and runs for years. After that, using it costs almost nothing. No per-token meters, no seat licenses.
Benchmarked for you
We pick and tune the model against your actual workloads and measure it. Not marketing benchmarks - your documents, your prompts, your speeds.
You learn to run it
We set it up and train your people to operate it. You are never dependent on us - or on a vendor's terms changing.
Who builds with us
Local AI fits businesses where the data is the business - or the paperwork is the bottleneck.
Law firms
Client files and privilege stay on a machine the firm controls - summarize, draft, and research locally.
Medical & dental practices
Patient notes, intake forms, and authorization paperwork stay in the building. PHI out of vendor pipelines.
Accountants & financial advisors
Ledgers, client books, and tax-season volume - without sending client financials to a cloud model.
Real estate & property management
Lease portfolios and long documents are exactly where per-query pricing stops making sense.
HVAC-R & building automation
Specs, service logs, and a second brain for codes - on your own network. Built by someone from the trade.
Engineering, construction & manufacturing
Drawings, specs, RFIs, and bids stay local while the document grind becomes drafts.
Insurance & title
High-volume, compliance-heavy document work for underwriters, adjusters, and title teams.
Security & data-handling businesses
Local AI is proof of your own privacy standard - and a capability you can build for your clients too.
The Builds
Service fees below are for done work, not consulting: installation, tuning, benchmarking, and training included. Hardware billed separately at cost - or bring your own.
Local AI Assessment
90 minutes, single session
$649
Anyone curious about local AI who wants a clear, honest recommendation before spending on hardware.
- Workload and privacy review - what you actually need AI to do
- Local vs. cloud vs. hybrid recommendation (we will tell you if local is the wrong call)
- Hardware and model recommendation, written out
- Total cost estimate including hardware at cost
- Credited toward any build you book with us
- Hardware purchase
- Installation or configuration
- Ongoing support
Forge Box - Solo
1-2 weeks, 1-3 users
$2,400
typical customer total: $4,000-7,000 (hardware at cost)
Individuals and professionals who want real AI capability on a machine they own.
- 14 days of follow-up support after setup
- Hardware sourcing at cost (Micro Center / retail) or bring your own
- Linux + NVIDIA driver + inference stack installed and tuned (vLLM / Ollama)
- Clean local UI - chat, documents, and your use cases
- Model selected and benchmarked for your workloads
- 1-2 hands-on training sessions until you are confident
- Written documentation and plain-English runbook
- Budget and standard hardware builds available
- Ongoing support (add Forge Care)
- Multi-user access controls (Team tier)
- On-site travel outside the North Shore
Forge Box - Team
2-4 weeks, 5-25 users
$9,500-15,000
typical customer total: $20,000-40,000 (hardware at cost)
Small businesses and teams that want AI capability on a server they control.
- Dedicated local server build, sourced at cost
- Multi-GPU inference tuned for your models and traffic
- Multi-user access with roles and controls
- Documentation and knowledge-base workflows set up
- Admin training plus team onboarding sessions
- Monitoring and backup configuration
- Documented operations runbook for your team
- Custom software development (scoped separately)
- Ongoing support (add Forge Care)
- Legal or compliance advice
Forge Server - Scale
Multi-week project
Scoped quote
Serious deployments: large models, multi-GPU clusters, dedicated network segments.
- Full architecture design and model selection
- Hardware specification with OEM/integrator procurement (at cost)
- Cluster deployment, networking, and tuning
- Training program scoped to your organization
- Documented architecture and operations handbook
- Fixed scope and quote before any work begins
- Hardware inventory or resale
- Ongoing support (add Forge Care)
- Facility power or cooling engineering
Example: what a Solo customer actually pays
| NVIDIA 4090 GPU (Micro Center, at cost) | $1,899 |
| Prebuilt tower, 64GB RAM (at cost) | $1,299 |
| Hardware subtotal - verify any price against the retailer | $3,198 |
| Build, install, tuning & benchmarking | in service |
| 2 hands-on training sessions | in service |
| Documentation + 14 days follow-up | in service |
| Service fee (flat - all three hardware options) | $2,400 |
| Customer total | $5,598 |
Hardware billed at cost, pass-through. We make our money on the work - not the parts.
How we source hardware
Retail-ready, at cost, and verifiable. No inventory markups.
Bring your own
Already own a GPU machine? We tune and deploy the stack on it. Hardware warranty stays with the vendor.
We source it (at cost)
We pick the parts and invoice the hardware at cost, pass-through. You can verify every price yourself. That is the point.
Forge Box (turnkey)
One fixed all-in price for a pre-built, pre-tuned, delivered machine. The zero-decisions option.
The Forge Method
Deploy. Operate. Harden. We do the technical setup for you and with you - until your team runs it without us.
Deploy
You get a machine that works.
We design the system, source hardware at cost, install and tune, and benchmark against your actual workloads - not demo prompts.
Operate
You get people who can run it.
Training is included, not an upsell. We run onboarding until your team can run it without us.
Harden
You stay ready for what is next.
Backups, updates, access control reviews, and model refreshes. With Forge Care, we keep your setup current and honest about what is actually better now.
New to all of this? The Local vs. Cloud guide is the most honest read you will find on where each one actually wins.
Local vs. cloud - the honest version
We will tell you when local is the wrong choice. A preview:
| Local (Forge) | Cloud SaaS | |
|---|---|---|
| Your data | Never leaves the machine. Nothing is logged or used for training. | Documents and prompts go to a third party's servers, under their policies. |
| Cost shape | Buy once, run for years. Near-zero cost per query. | Per-token subscriptions that scale with usage - and with everyone else's. |
| Availability | Works when your power is on. No outages, no rate limits, no ToS changes. | Depends on their uptime, quotas, and whether they keep your model around. |
| Top-end capability | Excellent up to a point; frontier-class models still need serious hardware. | The very largest models remain ahead of anything you can buy for a small business. |
Common Questions
Straightforward answers about local AI setups
Start with the machine question.
Tell us what you need AI to do. We tell you honestly whether local makes sense - and if it does, we build it with you.
KVP Forge provides local AI hardware selection, build, inference tuning, and training. We do not take custody of your data, credentials, or machines. Hardware is billed at cost, separately from services. We do not provide financial, legal, or tax advice. All prices in USD.