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Which private AI models should the company keep?

Short answer

A review of private AI model usage establishes which services support real work, which can be merged and which can be retired. A low number of queries does not have to mean a service is unneeded, so the review combines app data with conversations with users and a check of the replacement before anything is retired.

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Author: Syntalith · 3 min read

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Statistics

Private models: statistics 2026

2.0 mo.

payback of a €3,000 local app at 400 queries a month: €2,327 of work today, €796 with checking and a GPU server. Scenario.

Figures checked: 22 October 2026

A review of private AI services
  • What work each service supports
  • Who uses it and how often
  • Which services overlap
  • What replaces a service before it is retired

Few queries do not have to mean an unneeded service

Say one model helps a team prepare a monthly report, and another is a general chat used every day. The report shows much less traffic in the first tool. Its owner explains, though, that the app handles a specific stage of the work cycle and there is no agreed replacement yet.

The review should combine this information with the usage data. IT can then consider keeping the service, starting it only when needed, or moving the task to another approved environment. The decision needs an assessment of the task and of the cost of change, without treating popularity as value.

What your current app shows about private AI model usage

Open WebUI describes an admin view with message counts, token usage and activity over time, based on the saved history. Such data can help point to the tools to discuss with their owners. The scope of the report has to be read against what the system actually records.

If the app does not record part of the work, or deletes history under the company's rules, the report may cover only part of the use. Clarify this before comparing services. Work done through another app may also need a separate source of information. The review should show the tasks each service handles.

Existing reports and conversations with owners may be enough. A separate view makes sense if the information is spread across several environments and the summary has to be rebuilt regularly. There is no need to build another tool just to read the available data once.

Consolidation needs a check of the replacement

Two models may serve tasks with similar names, while employees rely on different sources or app features. Before merging services, look at a typical task in the proposed target. The user checks the result, access to documents and how work is kept.

If the replacement does not handle a needed element, the company can keep a separate scope or order the missing part. A saving in administration is not yet an assessment of the effect on the team. Moving to the cloud is likewise an option only when the requirements of the material and the process allow it.

When an app is retired, you need to settle what happens to conversations and documents. The business owner chooses the material to keep, and IT agrees access to the archive and the end of support. Users should know where to carry on working after the change.

A review in place of another pilot

Syntalith's proposed work can cover a list of private services, the available reports and the tasks the teams name. Together we compare overlapping features and pick the cases that need a replacement trial. An IT representative brings information about upkeep, and business owners explain why the rarer tasks matter.

After such a review you can agree a migration, reduced support or keeping the tool. Each proposal should name the work the company still has to do, without claiming savings before the change has been assessed.

Describe the private tools whose purposes have started to overlap. We will go through the available data and the scope of the review. We price a private model after a free call about the task, the data and the hardware. An app that uses the model starts from €3,000 net (pricing).

The scope of private LLMs also covers arrangements for upkeep. When several services are reviewed, the business owner, the users and the responsibility for updates have to be set apart for each one.

What a private AI service costs and when it pays back

Scenario: 400 queries a month
Today
400 queries × 10 min = 66.7 h × €34.90 = €2,327
With the app, an employee checks the output in 25% of the time
€582
Hetzner GEX45 GPU server
€214
Saving
€1,531 a month

Payback of €3,000

2.0 months

The volume, the time and the checking share are the scenario's assumptions, which we measure in the trial. €34.90 an hour is the EU average hourly labour cost for 2025 according to Eurostat. Price of the GEX45 with 24 GB of GPU memory from Hetzner's website on 22 October 2026, without the one-off setup fee of €209.

What to agree with IT beyond the model
  • Where the app takes documents from and where it saves results
  • What stays in logs, backups and the history of questions
  • Who has access to questions, answers and summaries
  • Who updates the model, the app and the set of documents

Where to start

In the free process review we choose one task and 20 to 100 cases the team has already handled, and within 2 working days you get a written summary with a price. We roll out the local model as part of private LLMs, and the app around it as an AI app.

Worked example · Scenario

How we count the payback: a review of private models

We run the same count for your team in the free process review.

€4,188

a month for the work on 600 questions

EU cloud version payback: 0.8 mo.

Our assumptions are 12 minutes to find an answer in the documentation, and checking in 15% of the old time. €34.90 an hour is the EU average hourly labour cost for 2025 according to Eurostat, for companies with 10 or more employees. Model cost: Claude Sonnet 5.5, about 6,000 + 500 tokens per answer in the EU cloud version, at the ECB rate of 1.1205 USD per euro on 22 October 2026. We count the payback for an app with a model in the EU cloud (from €3,000 net). We price the model on your server after a call, and the cost of people's work stays the same.

See the full calculation →

This is how we implement it in companies

All case studies →

Client results.

All projects →
foap.comcustomer service

foap.com customer service: 95% of replies are sent automatically.

Users from several countries write to foap.com, in several languages. The system reads the entire conversation and the terms of that person, and then sends a response in that person's language. Questions about money and exceptions go to the team with a ready draft, so they have to check and send them.

the system sends the answers itself, without human typing
95%
time from the arrival of the e-mail to the ready response (median)
30 s
e-mails that require a response receive a ready-made draft
100%
less work for every 1000 answers (estimate)
47 h

Data from foap.com production, October 20-21, 2026. Estimate: 3 minutes for handwritten response.

How foap.com customer service works →
Sample messages. Money matters always come to the person.

Other implementations

jaktako.design

studio projektowe

−87%

Time to look for new customers, every day

4 hours → 30 min

approx. 73 hours less per month (21 days of work)

according to the studio

How the agent loop works →
Signature Estates

real estate

approx. −90%

Operator time spent browsing portals, per day

2–3 hours → 20 min

approx. 45 hours less per month (21 days of work)

respect · contact the seller 5 minutes after the announcement

How the agent finds property listings →
Kuba Koziej, CEO and co-founder of MoreGrowth and board member at Natu.Care

Kuba Koziej

CEO and co-founder, MoreGrowth

„We started with my own AI agent. During the training that followed, I learned to build new applications myself. Today I am bringing this way of working with AI into my business. Working with Syntalith gave me exactly the skills and tools I needed.”

View the original training review on LinkedIn ↗

A model on your server or in the cloud in the EU, proven on your tasks.Book a free process review (30 min) →

How we build automation and agents

From a conversation to a working system in four steps.

  1. 01 · 30 min

    Free process review

    €0

    You're talking to an engineer. You receive the written plan within 2 business days.

  2. 02 · 5 days

    Free prototype

    €0

    The system works on 20-100 cases that your team has already handled. You see every result.

  3. 03 · 2–16 weeks

    Build

    50%

    Fixed price and goal written in the contract. First installment upon signing.

  4. 04 · after reaching the goal

    Reception

    50%

    You pay the second installment when the system reaches its target on your cases.

How a free prototype is created

Mon.

We set a goal

What result do you consider good?

Tue–Wed

The system is working

It goes through your affairs, one by one.

Thu

We compare

We check every difference with the team's work.

Fri

Result and price

List of errors and fixed implementation price.

You choose the matters. We anonymize them upon request, they stay in the EU and we delete them after the test.

On the market, such a test usually costs from PLN 3,000 to PLN 8,000.

Book a free process review (30 min)

We establish a prototype during a free analysis.

Data checked on October 25, 2026.

„Is my data safe?”

Yes. You choose where they go: from your company account to the model on your server.

  1. 00Employee's private account

    Customer and company data ends up in an account that the company cannot see or control. There is no data processing agreement, so it is a violation of the GDPR. When an employee leaves, the chat history goes with them.

  2. 01ChatGPT or Claude corporate account

    The provider does not use your data to train models. A copy of the queries remains in his logs for up to 30 days.

  3. 02API with zero retention (ZDR)

    The provider processes the request and does not save anything. It requires his consent, we prepare the application together.

  4. 03Processing in the EU

    Queries are counted and stored in Europe: OpenAI in the EU region, Claude via clouds with the EU region.

  5. 04Model at your place

    The open model runs on your server or in your cloud in the EU. The data does not go outside the company.

What we do with every implementation

  • Confidentiality agreement and data processing agreement before we receive any data.
  • You choose the cases for the prototype and we anonymize them upon request.
  • The data stays in the EU and we delete it after the test.
  • Corporate accounts with an administrator on your side.

When data cannot leave the company

The open model runs on your server or in your cloud in the EU. To choose from:

White-tailed eagle
Polish model, SpeakLeash and ACK Cyfronet AGH
PLLUM
Polish model, HIVE consortium commissioned by the Ministry of Digitization
Qwen
Alibaba
GLM
Zhipu AI
DeepSeek
DeepSeek

We select a model for the task and check it on your cases. We run it, tune it and maintain it.

Source: Bielik and PLLuM, ACK Cyfronet AGH ↗ · PLLuM, Ministry of Digitization ↗

Do you have a lot of your own data? We will fine-tune the small model.

  1. 1 Your examples
  2. 2 tuning
  3. 3 test on new cases
  4. 4 model at your place

When you have thousands of similar emails, documents or reports, we teach a small open model based on your examples. It works for you, responds quickly and costs less to maintain than a large model. We measure quality on issues that the model has not seen while learning.

Przemysław and Piotr did it in large programming and consulting companies. Artem did it before and does it today at Syntalith. It's about models on your own infrastructure, tuning and quality measurement.

You choose the protection level during the interview. We sign the data processing agreement before we see any data.Schedule a free analysis →

Private AI models

A model on your server or in the cloud in the EU, proven on your tasks.

We select the model and equipment for the task, run it and measure the quality using your examples before you buy anything. The data stays in the company or in the cloud in the EU. We price implementation, hardware or hosting and support separately after analysis.

View private AI models →
model on your server or in the cloud in the EU
quoted after the review
same work in application with EU cloud model
from €3,000
task, data and equipment analysis
€0

Questions

  • How do you judge which private AI models are needed?

    By combining app data on the number of queries with conversations with users about the work each model supports, and by checking what will replace a service before it is retired.

  • Do few queries mean a service is unneeded?

    Not always. A model used once a month for important work may be needed, and retiring it requires a replacement.

  • How much does an app on a local model cost?

    At Syntalith from €3,000 net plus GPU hardware, for example a Hetzner GEX45 server with 24 GB at €214 a month. At 400 queries a month, the payback is 2.0 months.

Let's talk

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We work fast because we hate corporate cotton wool. We don't have salespeople or managers to keep an eye on managers. You talk immediately to engineers who then build your system. We respect each other's time and yours too.

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What our OpenAI and Anthropic partnerships mean for you.

OpenAI makes ChatGPT and Anthropic makes Claude. We belong to the partnership programs of both companies, so we work with their tools every day and learn from the creators themselves.

OpenAI Select PartnerClaude Partner Network
01We will select a tool for the task
We implement both ChatGPT and Claude. We check both on your documents, and you choose the one that makes fewer corrections and saves more time.
02Knowledge straight from the creators
We learn from official OpenAI and Anthropic courses and materials. Your team learns about the features and settings that work today.
03Licenses without our margin
When we roll out ChatGPT, Claude or Copilot, you buy the licences directly from OpenAI, Anthropic or Microsoft and they invoice you. We add nothing to the licence.
04Certified engineers
On the team, we have an AWS certification in machine learning and an Anthropic certification in systems architecture on Claude.

Participation in programs does not mean that OpenAI or Anthropic endorses our services.