Private AI, explained in plain English
How local AI works, what cloud tools really do with your data, and how to keep confidential work confidential.
Open Enrollment, Privately: Use AI to Compare Health Plans Without Handing Over Your Medical History
Picking a health plan means weighing your prescriptions, your diagnoses, your family's doctors and your budget, which is exactly what you shouldn't paste into a cloud chatbot. Here's a step-by-step way to let an AI read the fine print for you while everything stays on your own computer.
Read moreSeat 34B, No Wi-Fi: An Hour-by-Hour Flight Log With an Offline AI
Five hours in the air, a laptop, and an AI that runs on the computer itself. Here's how a long flight goes when your chatbot doesn't need the internet: a wedding toast, a trip plan, a settled armrest dispute, and one honest note about your battery.
Read more12 Surprisingly Fun Things to Do With an AI That Never Goes Online
Most talk about AI is about work. But an AI that lives on your own computer and doesn't need Wi-Fi is also a pretty great game master, trivia host, bedtime storyteller, and naming consultant for your sourdough starter. Here are a dozen ways to have fun with it.
Read moreDon't Take Our Word for It: How to Check Whether an AI App Is Really Private
Every AI tool says it respects your privacy — including us. Here are four checks anyone can run in fifteen minutes, no technical background required, to see for yourself whether an AI app keeps your words on your computer or quietly sends them somewhere else.
Read moreWhen the Terms of Service Change: Cloud AI Privacy Is a Promise, Not a Property
Every cloud AI tool's privacy guarantee is a document the company can rewrite — and they do, when the business model shifts, when they're acquired, or when a court orders it. Here's what actually moves those documents, and the one question worth asking of any tool you hand real work to.
Read moreThe Local AI Models Actually Worth Getting Excited About Right Now
Free AI models you can run on your own computer got genuinely fun this year. Here are four worth knowing about — one that listens to your voice on an ordinary laptop, one with a memory like a filing cabinet, one that punches ten times its weight, and one absurd monster that almost nobody can run at home.
Read moreThe 30-Day Switch: Moving From ChatGPT to Local AI
You don't replace a daily habit by reading about it. Here's a four-week plan for moving your real work onto a local AI model — which tasks move over on day one, which take a little adjusting, and which are honestly better left in the cloud.
Read moreYou Already Pasted It: What to Do After Sending Something Sensitive to ChatGPT
That sinking feeling after you hit enter on a client file, a password, or a colleague's medical detail. Here's a calm, practical checklist for what to do next — what deletion actually accomplishes, what it doesn't, and how to make sure it isn't a recurring problem.
Read moreThe Things You Don't Type Into ChatGPT
Almost everyone edits themselves before hitting enter — swapping the real name for 'a colleague,' rounding the number, leaving out the part that matters. Here's what that habit quietly costs you, and what changes when nobody's on the other end.
Read moreHow to Get Better Answers From a Local AI Model
If your local AI feels thinner than ChatGPT, the model usually isn't the problem — the prompt is. Here are seven habits that make a model running on your own laptop noticeably sharper, with before-and-after examples.
Read moreHow to Write an AI Policy for Your Small Firm (Without Banning Everything)
Your team is already using AI — the only question is whether they're doing it under rules you wrote. Here's a practical, plain-English AI policy you can adapt in an afternoon, plus the one decision that makes the whole thing simpler.
Read moreCan You Get in Trouble for Using ChatGPT at Work?
Companies are writing AI policies faster than employees can keep up with them. Here's why ChatGPT trips so many of those policies, and how local AI lets you get the same help without the risk.
Read moreDoes Local AI Work Without the Internet? Using AI Offline, Anywhere
One of the quiet superpowers of running AI on your own computer is that it keeps working when your connection doesn't — on a plane, in a cabin, or anywhere with no signal. Here's why local AI runs fully offline, and what that actually changes.
Read moreDo You Need a Powerful Computer to Run AI Locally?
The most common worry about running AI on your own machine is that it takes a gaming rig or an expensive workstation. For everyday use, it usually doesn't. Here's what actually matters — in plain English — and how to tell if your computer is ready.
Read moreNow You Can Chat With Your Own Documents — Completely Offline
WorkInPrivate can now answer questions about your own PDFs, Word files, and notes — grounded in your documents and citing its sources — without any of them ever leaving your computer. Here's how it works.
Read moreLocal AI vs a ChatGPT Subscription: What Does It Actually Cost?
A ChatGPT Plus subscription is $20 a month — forever. Running AI on your own computer is a one-time cost. Here's the honest math on both, including the parts the pricing pages don't mention.
Read moreWhich Local AI Model Should You Run? A Plain-English Guide
Once you decide to run AI on your own computer, you have to pick a model. Here's what open-source models actually are, why there are so many, and how to choose the right size for your machine — no jargon.
Read moreIs It Safe to Put Client Data Into AI? What Every Professional Should Know
If you handle confidential client information, 'just paste it into ChatGPT' isn't a safe answer. Here's what actually happens to that data, the questions to ask, and how to get AI help without the risk.
Read moreLocal AI vs Cloud AI: What's the Difference, and Which Should You Use?
Cloud AI runs on a company's servers; local AI runs on your own computer. Here's the real difference — in privacy, cost, speed, and power — and how to choose the right one for what you're doing.
Read moreCan You Use ChatGPT for Confidential or Privileged Documents?
The short answer is: be very careful. Here's what actually happens to a document you paste into ChatGPT, why it matters for confidential work, and the safer way to get AI help.
Read moreHow to Run AI Privately on Your Own Computer (No Coding Required)
You don't need to be a developer to run a ChatGPT-style AI that keeps everything on your machine. Here's what 'local AI' means, what you need, and the easiest way to get started.
Read morePrivate AI that never leaves your computer
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