# Local AI Scout

> A field guide to AI on your own devices.


## Posts

- [Choose your first local AI task](https://localaiscout.com/choose-your-first-local-ai-task/): Four small local AI projects you can evaluate yourself, plus a repeatable way to compare results.
- [Before you give an AI app a document](https://localaiscout.com/before-you-upload-a-document/): A practical checklist for testing document chat, checking references and understanding where files are processed.
- [What is an AI harness? The model’s working environment](https://localaiscout.com/what-is-an-ai-harness/): A plain-English explanation of AI harnesses, agents, tools and the permissions around a local model.
- [Local AI vs cloud AI: what actually changes?](https://localaiscout.com/local-ai-vs-cloud-ai/): Understand the difference between local, cloud and hybrid AI workflows, and what to check before using them.

## Pages

- [Cookie Policy (UK)](https://localaiscout.com/cookie-policy-uk/): This Cookie Policy was last updated on October 20, 2026 and applies to citizens and legal permanent residents of the United Kingdom.
- [How Local AI Scout is funded](https://localaiscout.com/disclosure/): Affiliate, sponsorship and editorial disclosure for Local AI Scout.
- [How we research and review](https://localaiscout.com/editorial-policy/): Our standards for sourced guides, hands-on reviews, AI assistance, corrections and commercial disclosures.
- [A field guide to AI on your own devices](https://localaiscout.com/about/): Meet Local AI Scout, an independent guide to practical AI on your own devices.
- [Newsletter preferences](https://localaiscout.com/newsletter-preferences/): Manage your Local AI Scout newsletter subscription.
- [The local AI watchlist](https://localaiscout.com/news/): The Local AI Scout news watchlist: app updates, models and agent tools, with a focus on practical changes.
- [Small guides. Useful progress.](https://localaiscout.com/guides/): Practical local AI guides for everyday users and curious enthusiasts.
- [Meet the models](https://localaiscout.com/models/): Understand parameters, quantisation, context and the practical trade-offs behind local language models.
- [Find your local AI app](https://localaiscout.com/apps/): Meet LM Studio, Ollama and Jan, and learn which type of local AI app fits your workflow.
- [Your first steps into local AI](https://localaiscout.com/start-here/): A plain-English route from local AI curiosity to your first useful task.
- [Local AI Scout — AI, a little closer to home](https://localaiscout.com/): Discover local AI apps, models and practical beginner guides for the computer you already own.
- [The Scout Letter](https://localaiscout.com/newsletter/): Join the Scout Letter for local AI apps, beginner guides and useful updates.
- [Privacy and your choices](https://localaiscout.com/privacy-policy/): How Local AI Scout handles website visits, newsletter subscriptions and privacy choices.


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