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Self-Hosted AI Deployment

Standing up purpose-tuned models on infrastructure you control, so AI features run as part of the product architecture rather than on metered third-party credits.

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From $5,900
Areas in scope
5
Deliverables
4

The core decision

What self-hosting actually changes

Self-hosting does not remove infrastructure cost — it converts a metered, per-token third-party bill into owned compute, storage, and operational responsibility. That tradeoff is worth making when a product's AI usage is predictable and ongoing enough that owning the infrastructure costs less over time, when the product needs models tuned to a narrow, purpose-specific task rather than a general-purpose one, or when keeping requests and data inside owned infrastructure is a requirement rather than a preference. It is a worse tradeoff for unpredictable, spiky, or exploratory AI usage, where a metered API's flexibility outweighs the fixed cost of owned infrastructure.

In depth

A router in front of purpose-tuned models

Peaches, built at Omnitech, is a self-hosted model-serving platform: it stands up an OpenAI-compatible completion API in front of purpose-tuned models, then routes application traffic — captions, review-response drafting, job-content generation, and estimator assistance — through a central provider router with configured fallback and failure logging. That architecture is the concrete shape of this service: an application layer that calls one internal, stable API; a routing layer that decides which model serves which workload; and an operating layer responsible for keeping the models themselves running.

Related work Peaches

Self-hosted, OpenAI-compatible LLM service for production captions, review responses, job content, and estimating workflows.

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In depth

Operating responsibility, not just infrastructure

Standing up a self-hosted model is the easy part; operating it is the actual service. That means monitoring the models themselves for latency and failure, configuring provider fallback so a degraded or unavailable self-hosted model does not take a dependent feature down with it, and logging failures with enough detail to diagnose them rather than retrying silently. Peaches' router does exactly this: each of its four application workflows is monitored independently, with fallback and failure logging designed into the routing layer rather than added as an afterthought.

Fit

Who this helps

  • Products with predictable, ongoing AI usage where owned infrastructure costs less than metered credits over time.
  • Teams that need models tuned to a narrow, purpose-specific task rather than a general-purpose assistant.
  • Businesses for whom keeping requests and data on owned infrastructure is a requirement, not a preference.
  • Teams that already have a metered AI integration and want to know honestly whether self-hosting would help.

Scope

What's in scope

  • Infrastructure provisioning on AWS or other dedicated infrastructure
  • Model selection and purpose-specific tuning per workload
  • Central routing layer exposing one stable, OpenAI-compatible API to application code
  • Provider fallback configuration and failure logging
  • Ongoing operating responsibility for the running models

Deliverables

What you get

  1. Self-hosted model-serving infrastructure
  2. OpenAI-compatible completion API
  3. Central AI provider router
  4. Fallback and failure-logging controls

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AI Feasibility & Architecture Assessment

Decision before implementation

A go/no-go recommendation and a practical AI implementation plan.

How we work
Define the tasks and baselines, assess data and deployment options, then deliver the report and walkthrough.
What you provide
The workflows, representative data you are authorised to share, expected usage, and privacy or infrastructure constraints.
Engagement boundaries
Prototypes, model training, production deployment and legal or compliance certification are not included. Findings are technical evidence for your own compliance review.
Fees and timing

From $5,900

2–3 weeks

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Evidence

Related work

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AI & Infrastructure Chief Technology Officer Peaches Self-hosted, OpenAI-compatible LLM service for production captions, review responses, job content, and estimating workflows. Self-hosted LLMsPurpose-tuned models Read the case study

Further reading

Related technical writing

  1. Self-Hosted AI Operations
  2. Chat With Your Data: What It Takes to Do It Well

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Questions and answers

Questions about self-hosted AI

More questions? Feel free to reach out.

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Does self-hosting AI models remove infrastructure costs?

No — self-hosting converts a metered, per-token third-party bill into owned compute, storage, and operating responsibility. It is a cost tradeoff, not a cost elimination, and it is worth making only when usage is predictable and ongoing, or narrow and purpose-specific, enough that owning the infrastructure costs less or serves the product better over time than a general-purpose metered API.

What does 'purpose-tuned' mean in a self-hosted AI deployment?

It means a model configured and routed for one specific workload rather than used as a general-purpose assistant. Peaches runs separate purpose-tuned configurations for captions, review-response drafting, job-content generation, and estimator assistance, each served through the same central router.

What operating responsibilities come with self-hosted AI, beyond standing it up?

Monitoring the models for latency and failure, configuring provider fallback so a degraded self-hosted model does not take a dependent feature down with it, and logging failures with enough detail to diagnose them. On Peaches, each application workflow is monitored independently with fallback and failure logging built into the routing layer.

When is self-hosting AI the wrong choice?

When usage is unpredictable, spiky, or still exploratory. A metered third-party API's flexibility outweighs the fixed cost and operating responsibility of owned infrastructure until usage is consistent enough, or specific enough to a narrow task, to justify standing up and running dedicated infrastructure.

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