MacHive.ai · Local AI consultancy

Local AI that
stays home.

A UK consultancy that designs, builds and runs AI on hardware you control — private LLMs, search over your own documents, and automation with no cloud round-trip. Your data never leaves your walls; the answers come back faster.

UK-based consultancy GDPR-ready by default UK data residency Open-weights models Offline capable
What we do

Practical AI, built where your data lives.

No black boxes, no vendor lock-in. We work with open-weights models on hardware you control — and we benchmark everything on your data before it goes live.

Private LLM deployments

Open-weights models — Llama, Qwen, Mistral, Gemma — running on your hardware or in our UK datacentres. Served over your own network, tuned to your latency and quality targets.

RAG & knowledge search

Search that answers from your own documents — contracts, manuals, tickets — with citations. The corpus stays local; nothing is phoned home to a cloud API.

Fine-tuning & evaluation

We adapt models to your domain and language, then prove it: structured evals, side-by-side against your current tooling, before anything goes live.

Agents & automation

AI agents that call your internal tools — ticketing, ERP, spreadsheets — inside your network, with human checkpoints where it matters.

Data residency & GDPR

Architecture that keeps personal data in the UK and under your control: local inference, local vector stores, and data flows documented for your DPIA.

Hardware & fleet advice

Right-sized compute for the models you actually need — from a single workstation to a racked fleet. We host our own fleet of Apple silicon Macs in UK datacentres — see the full line-up.

The local stack

One API call is a demo.
A local stack is a product.

We assemble a private AI stack that fits your data and your network: an open-weights model served on hardware you control, a vector index over your documents, and a thin API your existing apps already speak. Nothing in the path touches a cloud you don't own.

  • Inference on your terms — open-weights models served on your hardware or in UK racks. Latency measured, not promised.
  • Your corpus, indexed locally — embeddings and the vector store live next to the model. Documents don't leave the boundary.
  • Drops into your existing apps — an OpenAI-compatible endpoint at the front, so near-zero rewrites on the client side.

The local stack

one boundary · four hops · zero cloud calls

Ways of working

Pick a way in.

Start with a free phone consultation, then a fixed-scope discovery, then a build priced on your requirements. Every stage is written down before it starts — no hourly mystery.

Engagements free to start
Consultation
Phone call · 30 minutes
Free no obligation
book via the form — we reply within one working day
  • Talk through your use case and data
  • Honest read on whether local AI fits
  • Indicative approach and next steps
  • No jargon, no obligation
Book a call
Discovery
2 weeks · fixed scope
£1,800 one-off
credited in full to a Build project
  • AI audit of your current workflows
  • Model benchmark on your data
  • Written recommendation + roadmap
  • Hardware sizing (buy or rent)
  • Clear quote for the Build
Book discovery
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Build
Priced on your requirements
Custom quote
typically £8,500+ · ex VAT · fixed once quoted
  • Everything in Discovery
  • Private LLM deployed & tuned
  • RAG over your document set
  • OpenAI-compatible API + integration
  • Eval suite, docs & handover
  • UK data residency by design
Start a build
All prices ex VAT · Fixed-scope, in writing, before we start · Remote-first, UK-wide — on-site when it helps

Tell us what you're trying to do.

A workflow you want automated, a model you want run privately, or a data question you can't sleep over — describe it and we'll give you an honest read on whether local AI is the right tool. Usually a reply within one working day.