Craft Software Collective

Host Your Own Local AI

Own your AI. Stop renting your brain from billionaires.

By Friday you have your own open AI model running on your machine, in a friendly chat interface, doing at least one real task — and the habit of reaching for local-first instead of paying for frontier every time.

A fully async 5-day build week · 30 min a day · do it on your own clock, no fixed-time calls · July 13–17, 2026.

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What you ship, day by day

The smallest models run on basically any laptop — no GPU required. Bigger hardware is an optional nerd upgrade, never a requirement.

• Mon

  Install the engine

  Install the local runtime (e.g. Ollama) and pull one small model that answers you in the terminal.

• Tue

  Give it a face

  Install an open chat UI (e.g. Open WebUI) wired to your local model, so it feels like ChatGPT/Claude.

• Wed

  Pick your models

  Pull 2–3 right-sized models and learn which task goes to which model.

• Thu

  Make it useful

  Wire one real recurring task to the local model — a decision-fatigue helper, drafting, an ND-task prompt.

• Fri

  Own it

  Lock in defaults, know when to reach for frontier vs local — the identity shift: you own your AI.

Founding bonuses

Stacked on top of the week — and they tier down as the cart runs, so earlier is better.

• 🎟️The 1:1 Setup Review & Assist

  $200 value

  I personally get your setup dialed in, one-on-one.

  First 5 founding members

• 📦The Local-AI Stack Pack

  $120 value

  Pre-picked models + paste-ready configs for both the runs-on-any-laptop path and the nerd upgrade.

  Join by July 4

• 🗝️The ND Skills & Prompt Vault

  $79 value

  A library of Claude-skill-style prompts for the decision-fatigue, drafting, and executive-function tasks you'll offload.

  Join by July 10