Free Field Guide

Own Your
Data


AI is moving into everything, and most of it runs in the cloud, on someone else's servers. This guide shows you how to keep your private work off the cloud, and the hardware that lets you run AI on your own terms.


From Paola Villa, award-winning Economist and AI Systems Architect


The Field Guide · Paola Villa
Own Your
Data
Keep your AI private. Run it on your own terms.

What's Inside

A plain-English guide to private, local AI, and the hardware behind it.

Cloud or local

The honest difference, side by side, and when each one is the right call.

The VRAM ladder

Why one machine costs 5x another, explained in one number, so the prices make sense.

What to buy, by budget

Real picks from a starter setup to a serious private-AI machine.