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Notes from building a personal AI you actually own.
By Tiago Santana · September 15, 2026 · 8 min read
Where They Cannot Follow
A small model trained on our own machine, by another local model, for zero dollars, outscored the local model it was built to replace on one narrow job of ours. We have since taken it out of service. The interesting part is why results like it will keep happening.
By Tiago Santana · August 6, 2026 · 7 min read
Seven Questions We Could Not Stop Asking
We spent a week pressure-testing what a personal AI is actually for. Most of our answers died under review. These are the questions that survived.