Alpine Icicle
Open Models · Your Hardware

Own Your AI
Stack

Open-source tooling and open-weight models you can run, inspect, and keep — deployed on your own hardware, with nothing locked behind someone else's API.

Why Open

Your Data. Your Versions. Your Costs.

Open models and open source put you back in control — of your data, your versions, and your costs.

Control Over Your Data

Self-hosted open models mean sensitive data never leaves the building. GDPR, HIPAA, and data residency are handled by design — no third parties in the loop.

Control Over Versions

No one can swap your model out from under you or retire an API endpoint you've tuned against. Freeze a version for as long as you like, and upgrade only when you choose.

Control Over Cost

No per-token billing — running open models on your own hardware turns AI cost into essentially just electricity. Predictable, and it never balloons with usage.

Open by Default

Open-Weight Models

Run frontier-class open models on your own hardware — host them, inspect them, and swap them whenever you like. No black boxes, no revocable API.

  • Gemma, Qwen, Llama, DeepSeek — your pick
  • Several models served at once
  • No rate limits or usage quotas
  • Upgrade or swap any time

Open-Source Stack

The entire pipeline is open source — inference, chat, RAG, orchestration, and coding agents. Every layer is inspectable, self-hosted, and free of licensing lock-in.

  • llama.cpp inference (OpenAI-compatible)
  • Open WebUI for chat & RAG
  • n8n for automation & agents
  • ChromaDB, OpenCode & more
Case Study

Deployed in the Real World

A complete open-source AI stack, running in production on a single on-prem box.

A Full Open-Source AI Stack on One On-Prem Box

128 GB
Unified memory
3
Open models at once
0
Cloud dependencies
Hardware

A single compact desktop — NVIDIA's Grace Blackwell platform with 128 GB of unified memory — running headless on the local network. No racks, no cloud.

What runs on it
  • A 122B-parameter open model — on a single desktop
  • Plus several smaller models, all at once
  • All of them at smooth, interactive speed
The open-source stack
  • llama.cpp — inference, OpenAI-compatible
  • Open WebUI — private chat & RAG
  • n8n — workflow automation & Slack agents
  • ChromaDB & OpenCode — search & coding

Key insightThe trick is efficiency: modern open mixture-of-experts models deliver near-top-tier quality while doing only a fraction of the work — so a single box keeps up with what used to need a small server room.

Ready to Own Your AI Stack?

Let's talk about deploying open models and an open-source stack on your hardware.