Notes on keeping what is yours.
Plain writing on owning your data, servers, backups and private AI for owner-run businesses.
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- Stewardship, not storage: why your business data should stay yours
A business's records are a trust it holds for its customers and its people. Keep them on hardware you own, in accounts in your name, with a copy you have tested.
- How to make an AI agent ask before it sends, pays or deletes
The agent can draft the email. A named person approves every send, payment, post and access change, and only a person deletes in the tool.
- Should a small office rent AI seats or run its own server?
For 10 people, rented AI seats run $1,680 to $3,600 a year. A DGX Spark starts at $4,699 before setup. Rent for chat. Own for scattered files.
- How to back up a small business server and prove the restore works
Three copies, one of them offline, then restore a real file and compare it. That is the backup plan we run with a small office.
- What is Hermes Desktop? A plain explanation for business owners
Hermes Desktop is Nous Research's open-source app for the Hermes agent. Kodros installs it, pins the version and pairs it to your server.
- What to gather before setting up a business server
Before a server install, name who says yes, list where the files live, pick a cool spot with power and a cable, and bring login names, not passwords.
You keep the hardware, the files and the memory.
Kodros puts private AI on hardware you own: the model, the app and the compute, in your building. Every send, post and payment waits for a person. If you leave, you keep the hardware, the files and the memory.