Open-source AI deployment

Tailor open-source tools.

An open-source AI tool already exists for most work. Capable in a demo, short of the auth, data, policies, and scale a real business needs. The tailored deployment closes that gap.

Hosted in your perimeterFork yours from day oneTailored to your stack
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01Where tailoring fits

The repo solves the work. The tailoring closes the gap to production.

The open-source AI ecosystem has filled out. Hundreds of self-hostable tools for specific jobs — chat, retrieval, agents, document processing, transcription, internal search.

Each one is demo-ready in its README. Production-ready inside a real business is a different distance.

tailoring
DEMO
PUBLIC REPO
v0.4.2
github.com / awesome-ai-tool
CONNECTAUTHBRANDPOLICYHARDEN
tailoring
PRODUCTION
YOUR DEPLOYMENT
v0.4.2 · yourorg
inside your perimeter
public · forkableyours · production
02When tailoring is the right answer

The work worth tailoring. Three conditions identify it.

Build is expensive. Tailoring is cheaper. Most AI work belongs on top of something open-source that already does the heavy lifting.

Condition · 01

An existing tool covers the core.

The capability is solved by something already public. The work that remains is the gap to your business.

Condition · 02

The specifics are yours.

Your data sources, your auth, your policies, your brand — none of which the repo knows.

Condition · 03

Production, not demo.

Logging, monitoring, backups, scale-testing — the parts a README skips.

RuleWhen all three hold, tailoring pays off. Fewer than three, and a different path fits.
03What tailoring means

The README ships a demo. Production needs more.

The fork covers the capability. The deployment adds the layers a business actually runs on.

DATA

Data connectors

Your data sources in place of generic loaders.

AUTH

Authentication

Your single sign-on, your identity provider, your roles.

BRAND

Branding

Your mark inside the UI. Your product, not the repo’s.

POLICY

Policy layer

Guardrails for PII, role-based access, audit logs, retention.

MODEL

Model choice

Frontier model where the work earns the cost. Open-weight model on your servers where it doesn’t.

HARDEN

Production hardening

Logging, monitoring, backups, scale-testing.

04Inside your perimeter

Two ways to run AI inside a business. One keeps your data home.

SaaS AI is convenient. Self-hosted, tailored open-source is governed by the policies you already wrote, on the infrastructure you already run.

Vendor cloud

SaaS AI

YOUR PERIMETERDATAUSERQUERIES + DATAVendorAI MODEL$ / TOKENDATA CROSSES THE BOUNDARY

Your queries cross the network to the vendor. The model provider reads them. Per-token pricing scales with usage. Pricing terms can change.

for example
  • Off-the-shelf AI products on vendor infrastructure.
  • Convenient for general work.
  • Reasonable for non-sensitive data.
Your perimeter

Self-hosted, tailored

YOUR PERIMETERDATAUSERAppTAILOREDFORK · YOURORGMODELEVERYTHING INSIDE THE BOUNDARY

The tool runs on your servers. Your data stays. No per-token bills. The model you chose, governed by the policies you wrote.

for example
  • Chat — Open WebUI + Llama on your AWS account.
  • Retrieval — RAGFlow + Mistral on your Azure tenant.
  • Transcription — Whisper on an on-prem GPU.
Tailored, self-hosted is the answer for regulated industries — BFSI, healthcare, legal, government.
05How we deliver

Built around the tool and the work it has to fit.

Short cycles. Weekly demos. A tailored deployment in your environment in weeks, not months.

WEEK 1

Evaluate

We map the work and the open-source tools that fit. We test the most promising ones against your data.

WEEK 2

Tailor

We fork the repo. Wire it to your auth, your data sources, your model. Apply your policies.

WEEK 3

Demo

You see the tailored tool running on your data, inside your perimeter. We walk through what works and what to refine.

WEEK 4+

Ship

Deployed in your environment. We hand over the fork, the docs, the runbook for upstream merges.

06Connected

Connected to what you already run.

The tailored tool ties to your existing stack — your identity provider, your data sources, your storage, your monitoring.

Salesforce
Gmail
Teams
Intercom
Asana
Airtable
Confluence
Box
Canva
Stripe
Razorpay
Google Calendar
Shopify
Salesforce
Gmail
Teams
Intercom
Asana
Airtable
Confluence
Box
Canva
Stripe
Razorpay
Google Calendar
Shopify
HubSpot
Outlook
WhatsApp
Linear
ClickUp
Miro
Google Drive
Google Docs
Typeform
Xero
Paytm
Google Meet
SAP
HubSpot
Outlook
WhatsApp
Linear
ClickUp
Miro
Google Drive
Google Docs
Typeform
Xero
Paytm
Google Meet
SAP
Zoho
Slack
Zendesk
Jira
Trello
Notion
Dropbox
Google Sheets
Google Forms
Sage
PhonePe
Zoom
Zoho
Slack
Zendesk
Jira
Trello
Notion
Dropbox
Google Sheets
Google Forms
Sage
PhonePe
Zoom

Anything with an API connects directly. The rest connects through your existing service mesh.

07The ecosystem

The open-source AI ecosystem we deploy from.

Mature tools where they fit. Each one tested in real deployments. The right answer is whichever one already does the work.

Chat and assistants
Open WebUILibreChatAnythingLLMDify
RAG and knowledge
HaystackRAGFlowVerbaQuivrPrivateGPT
Agents and flows
LangGraphCrewAIFlowiseLangflow
Document extraction
UnstructuredDoclingPaddleOCRLayoutLM
Voice and transcription
WhisperWhisperXfaster-whisper
Open-weight models
LlamaMistralDeepSeekQwenGemmaPhi
Model serving
OllamavLLMllama.cppTGILocalAI
Vector stores
pgvectorQdrantWeaviateChromaMilvus
+ whichever one solves the workForks live in your repository.
08What you own

You own
everything.

A fork in your repository. A deployment on your infrastructure. Docs written for your engineers. Upstream updates pull in cleanly by your team or by us, your call.

Fork
In your repository.
The forked code, the patches, the configurations. Versioned alongside your other software.
Deployment
On your infrastructure.
The tool runs on your servers, your cloud, your databases. Inside your perimeter.
Docs
For the next engineer.
Operational docs, runbook for upstream merges, handover notes. Readable by your team on day one.
09Talk to us

Let's talk about the work.

Book a call with the founders. We listen first. Then we come back with what we'd build.

First call
30 minutes.
A conversation about your operation. No prep needed.
If it fits
A scoped project.
One real problem, shaped end to end. Weeks, not quarters.
If not yet
We say so.
Sometimes the right answer is to wait. We'll tell you when.

Tell us what you're working on.

A short form. Three minutes. We come back with what we'd build and whether we're the right people to build it.

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