How LocalAIBox works

LocalAIBox is an on-premises AI appliance from Mako Logics, a Houston-based managed service provider. It runs powerful language models on hardware you own, giving your team private chat, document analysis, and an OpenAI-compatible API — without any data leaving your network.

No. Every prompt, document, and answer stays on the appliance inside your own network. LocalAIBox can run fully air-gapped, with no internet connection at all. Your data is never sent to the cloud and never used to train anyone's models.

LocalAIBox runs leading open models such as Llama, Gemma, and Qwen, plus specialist medical models. On hardware with enough memory it can keep several loaded at once, so staff switch between them per conversation instantly — or let the box auto-select the best model for each question. Mako Logics helps you choose the right models for your work and your hardware.

Yes. Upload contracts, protocols, policies, and records — including scanned PDFs, which built-in OCR reads — and staff get answers grounded in your files, with a citation to the source passage. Semantic search finds the right passage even from a paraphrase. You can also build shared, permissioned document collections that a whole team can query, with per-user access control. Everything is processed on the box and encrypted at rest; nothing is uploaded to anyone's cloud.

LocalAIBox runs on two appliance platforms, and Mako Logics helps you pick the right one. The first is a Windows mini-PC or workstation with an NVIDIA GPU, which delivers the most speed and runs the largest models (70B and up). The second is an Apple Silicon Mac mini — a compact, silent, energy-efficient box that runs models up to about 32B and is ideal for most small-to-mid teams. Both run LocalAIBox entirely on hardware you own, keep all data on your network, and are sized to your team during your demo.

Yes. LocalAIBox is built for regulated industries — insurance, healthcare, legal, and finance. It keeps data on-premises and includes PII/PHI redaction, role-based access with permissioned document collections, a 7-year tamper-evident (hash-chained) audit log of queries and document retrievals, and AES-256 encryption at rest to support HIPAA and GLBA compliance programs.

No. LocalAIBox runs entirely on your own hardware and works offline, including in fully air-gapped networks. Internet is only needed if you choose to download new models.

Cloud AI tools process prompts on a provider's infrastructure. LocalAIBox runs on hardware you own, keeps data on your network, and gives your team private browser access.

Yes. LocalAIBox exposes an OpenAI-compatible API with /v1 chat, models, and embeddings endpoints, so most tools and scripts that already work with the OpenAI API can point at your box instead of the cloud.

One appliance can serve multiple team members. How many simultaneous users it handles depends on the hardware tier, which Mako Logics sizes to your team.

Mako Logics — one of Houston's leading MSPs, with 20+ years building software and AI — delivers and installs LocalAIBox on your network, sizes it to your team, and provides ongoing support and maintenance.

Request a demo with Mako Logics. We'll discuss your team, workflows, and data requirements, then help you identify a suitable hardware configuration and deployment plan.

Mako Logics handles delivery, installation, configuration, and staff training. The appliance arrives pre-configured, so most teams are up and running quickly with minimal effort from your own IT.