Local AI Decision Kit — SHOULD YOU RUN YOUR OWN AI? — Break-even math + blind quality bake-off + ops audit
Open-weight models on your own GPUs, or keep paying per token? Decide with evidence, not vibes.The self-hosting decision has three gates: economics, quality, and operations. This kit walks all three — and refuses to let you skip one.1) Self-Hosting Calculator (Excel · formula-live · no locked cells)• Break-even volume (M tokens/mo) and break-even month at your growth rate• The full self-host cost stack — including the MLOps labor line every other model forgets• Capacity ceiling: the month your demand outgrows the hardware you're about to buy• 36-month totals, API vs. owned, side by side• Workload Fit Matrix: where open-weight models genuinely compete (and where they don't)2) Local AI Decision Framework (Word · fully editable)• The Three Gates — a decision structure that kills GPU impulse buys• Blind Quality Bake-Off Protocol: golden set, pre-registered rubric, gap thresholds, stress test• 30-point Operations Readiness Audit — serving stack, monitoring, fallback-to-API, on-call, updates• Risk register + one-page signed Decision RecordWorks in Excel, Google Sheets, and Numbers. Single-company internal license. Free updates to this edition. 14-day, no-questions refund.Pairs with the AI Infrastructure TCO Toolkit (where should your AI run) — this kit answers what should run on it.Smart AI Scan — a Camel Capital Group company.
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