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title: "Local AI Guide"
canonical_url: https://auteurintelligence.com/platform/local-ai/
description: "The Local AI Guide reads the hardware on a machine paired through Auteur Bridge and recommends local models that fit, with reasons. Beta."
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# Local AI Guide

Running models on your own GPU should not start with a forum search. The Local
AI Guide is part of onboarding and Settings: it reads the hardware facts of a
machine you have paired through [Auteur Bridge](https://auteurintelligence.com/platform/bridge/), recommends
local models that fit it, and says why. It is a platform feature that comes with
your Auteur products, and it is in **beta**.

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## What it does

- **Fit before download**: recommendations come from what your machine can
  actually run, so a model that does not fit is not suggested.
- **Reasons, not a black box**: each recommendation comes with a short
  explanation, and facts the Guide does not know stay marked as unknown.
- **Your consent, every time**: advice never downloads anything. Installing a
  model goes through the same consent card and approval as any other change to
  your machine.
- **An assistant if you want one**: you can ask follow-up questions through an
  AI provider connection you choose; without one, the guided recommendations
  still work.
- **Privacy by design**: the Guide works from identity-free hardware facts, not
  a raw profile of your computer.

“I have a 24 GB card. Which local models can fill my draft and judge seats, and what would each one unlock?”

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## Where it runs

The Guide runs in your workspace during onboarding and in Settings, and it needs a
machine paired through [Auteur Bridge](https://auteurintelligence.com/platform/bridge/). What each local lane
needs is on the [requirements page](https://auteurintelligence.com/requirements/).

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## Take the next step

**[Get founding access](https://auteurintelligence.com/founding-beta/apply/)**. The Local AI Guide comes with
your Auteur products.