Desktop Portal is one AI query box over your company’s files, folders, and databases — installed by me, running on hardware you own. Ask in plain English, get answers with the source cited. No document, no question, no token ever leaves your network.
Twenty years of files, shares, and a database only IT can query — your business already knows most of the answers. Desktop Portal lets you ask. The whole idea in three pieces:
Every AI vendor in the metro will happily wire a chatbot to a cloud API. That’s exactly the problem.
The quote from 2021, the spec on the file server, the customer history in your line-of-business system — it all exists. But finding it means an hour of digging, or asking the one person who remembers. That person is a single point of failure.
Pasting company data into a public chatbot puts it on infrastructure you don’t control, under terms you didn’t negotiate. For financials, contracts, bids, and customer records, that should bother you.
AI subscriptions for a 25-person shop run roughly $9,000+ every year, forever. A private AI server is bought once, on iron you own — and the model that runs on it is open-weight, with no license fee and no meter.
No rip-and-replace. Desktop Portal reads from the systems your business lives on — and I’ll be straight with you about which ones it can’t.
Local folders, network shares, and OneDrive-synced libraries (PDF, Word, text), plus Microsoft SQL Server — the backend of most local ERP, job-tracking, and ticketing systems. Read-only by design: the portal can see your data, never change it.
Financial and accounting packages vary. Where there’s a SQL backend or ODBC driver — Sage and similar, which I’ve run for two decades — it’s usually modest work. Pure cloud SaaS that locks data behind its own walls is the hard case, and I’ll tell you that before you spend a dime, not after.
Estimated figures up front so you can do the math before we ever talk. You buy hardware and licenses directly — I don’t mark up or resell anything. My fee is the work.
Desktop Portal software is included — I don’t sell software, I deliver a working system. Covers server build-out, AI model setup and tuning, connecting your folders and databases, testing, staff training, and 30 days of stabilization.
A GPU-equipped business-class server sized for a 10–25 person shop — and it consolidates file, print, and SQL duties while it’s at it, so it’s rarely just an AI purchase. Confirmed by live Dell quote. You own it from day one.
Model and software updates, monitoring, and a quarterly health check. Billed monthly with no annual contract — the same way I run everything. Cancel and the portal keeps working; the updates stop.
Not ready for a server? Same query box, powered by your own AI API account — your key, your data agreement, usage typically a few dollars a day. A clean on-ramp that moves on-premises later without starting over. Healthcare practice? See HIPAA-aligned AI.
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The discovery call is free. Bring the question you can never get answered — about your files, your jobs, your customers — and let’s find out what your data already knows. Start the conversation.