FORGE · Local AI
Use AI without giving away your knowledge.
Anyone automating processes with AI gives the tool deep insight: calculations and margins, customer correspondence, design data, decades of experience. That is why every FORGE tool can run entirely within your own infrastructure.
The problem
Where does your data go?
The demo was impressive, the licence affordable, the rollout fast. The question of where the data actually goes often comes later: from the works council, from a key customer's purchasing department, from the auditor.
With pure cloud tools, your knowledge flows through infrastructure you do not control, under jurisdictions you did not choose. For many workflows that is acceptable. For some it is not, for example pricing logic, regulated quality data or defence-related engineering.
The solution
You decide what runs where.
Sovereignty is a spectrum, not a dogma. If you want full data sovereignty, you run AI on your own premises, which costs more. Others use servers in the EU or a hybrid model. Modern AI architectures make the choice possible per process.
On your premises
Open-weight AI models run on your own hardware, orchestration stays on site. Nothing leaves your network.
In the EU
Operation on GDPR-compliant servers in the EU. Your data is used only for your requests.
Hybrid
Critical data stays in-house, non-critical workloads use the cloud. You decide where the line is.
Secure in operation
AI that also holds up in an audit.
Access controls and audit logs: who asked what and when stays traceable.
Failover protection for critical environments.
No lock-in: your process knowledge stays in open formats, and the exit stays open.
Built for regulated industries: in medical technology or automotive, local operation is often the entry ticket. That is why ComplAInow can run entirely at the customer's site.
Frequently asked questions
Before you decide.
How should we prepare before automating?
Classify your data first: which may leave the building, and which never? That determines which workflows must run locally.
What should we look for in vendors?
Ask for deployment options. A vendor with no answer for on-premise operation has already made the decision for you.
Which FORGE tools run locally?
All of them: FORGE CPQ, ComplAInow, Document Intelligence, PLANOVA and FORGE Insights are available with local AI.
Which data may leave the building?
In the intro call we clarify which workflows should run locally and what that means for hardware and operation.