Example projectWeb appAIOpen-source model
Air-gapped manuals assistant
Hypothetical. Not a client, not a result.
// The problem
Maintainers search thousands of pages of restricted technical manuals by hand, and no outside AI service is allowed near them.
// What we would build
An assistant on an open-source model running on a GPU server inside an air-gapped network, answering from the organisation's own manuals and citing the section, with updates brought in on approved media. Nothing reaches the internet, in either direction.
// What is in it
- Manuals and service bulletins indexed inside the air-gapped network
- Answers that cite the manual section, for the maintainer to check
- Access by role, so each user sees only the manuals they may see
- An open-source model on a GPU server with no network path outside
- Updates and new manuals loaded through your approved media process
// Stack
- Llama or Mistral (open-source)
- vLLM
- PostgreSQL with pgvector
- Next.js
- Lenovo GPU server, air-gapped
// estimate
- Build
- ≈ US$120,000 to US$183,000, delivered within 25 weeksCAD 171,200 to 260,200
- Hosting
- ≈ US$176 a monthCAD 250 a month
- Support
- ≈ US$2,500 a monthCAD 3,565 a month
- Hardware
- ≈ US$47,800 to US$197,000CAD 68,000 to 280,800
Prices in your currency are estimates from today's Bank of Canada rate. All invoicing is in CAD or USD.
- AI route
- Open-source model
- Model running cost
- ≈ US$176 a monthCAD 250 a month
Timeline by milestone
- Discovery
- 2.9 to 3.4 weeks
- Specification and evaluation plan
- 0.4 weeks
- Design approved
- 2.4 to 3.4 weeks
- Access rules reviewed with your designated official
- 1.4 to 2.4 weeks
- Core features
- 1.4 to 2.4 weeks
- Full build
- 0.9 to 1.4 weeks
- Working pilot
- 3.9 to 6.9 weeks
- Testing and fixes
- 0.4 to 0.9 weeks
- Penetration test findings closed
- 0.9 to 1.9 weeks
- Launch
- 0.9 to 1.4 weeks
- Production
- 0.9 to 1.4 weeks
Outside our hands, and added to the calendar
- Hardware delivery, after it is ordered
- 2 to 6 weeks
- Independent penetration test and retest
- 2 to 4 weeks
How it is paid
- Deposit 20%
- CAD 34,180 to 51,980
- Discovery 1.5%
- CAD 2,563.50 to 3,898.50
- Specification and evaluation plan 8%
- CAD 13,672 to 20,792
- Design approved 1.5%
- CAD 2,563.50 to 3,898.50
- Access rules reviewed with your designated official 7.7%
- CAD 13,159.30 to 20,012.30
- Core features 4.6%
- CAD 7,861.40 to 11,955.40
- Full build 3.1%
- CAD 5,297.90 to 8,056.90
- Working pilot 24.2%
- CAD 41,357.80 to 62,895.80
- Testing and fixes 1.5%
- CAD 2,563.50 to 3,898.50
- Penetration test findings closed 7.7%
- CAD 13,159.30 to 20,012.30
- Launch 1.5%
- CAD 2,563.50 to 3,898.50
- Production 8.7%
- CAD 14,868.30 to 22,611.30
- Holdback, 30 days after launch (10%)
- CAD 17,090 to 25,990
- GPU time for training and testing, at cost
- CAD 300. Billed up front, at cost, outside the milestones
- GPU server for AI, for the model
- CAD 68,000 to 280,800. Billed up front, at cost, outside the milestones