Local AI use cases

Community stories - "I use X model for Y task"

Real-world local AI builds from the Tokenstead community: which open-weight model each person runs for which task, on what hardware, and why they picked it over the cloud. Browse for a setup that matches your workload, then find a rig that runs the model.

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personal/therapeutic content I'd never send to the cloud

Private journaling and reflection assistant

Phi-4 Mini / cdnsteve

rural / unreliable internet, always-on device

Offline home assistant that survives internet outages

Gemma 3 4B / cdnsteve

patient data can't leave the clinic network

HIPAA-safe clinical note summarization

GLM 5.3 / cdnsteve

notes and files never get uploaded anywhere

Private RAG over my notes, PDFs and contracts

Qwen3 30B A3B / cdnsteve

lawyer / client data can't leave laptop

Offline contract review and redlining

DeepSeek V4 Pro / cdnsteve

company code can't touch third-party APIs

Local coding assistant for a proprietary codebase

Kimi K2.7 Code / cdnsteve