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Local Office
Private AI for office paperwork
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Private AI for office paperwork
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Private AI for office paperwork. Answers cite the exact page, and no file leaves your computer.
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Why I made Local Office
Offices run on paper: contracts, invoices, scanned letters, purchase orders, meeting minutes. AI assistants are good at reading that kind of material, but using one usually means uploading your clients' documents to someone else's servers. Many small businesses can't do that, or would rather not.
So I built an assistant that runs entirely on a PC. You drop in your files and ask questions. Every answer cites the page it comes from, so you can check it in one click. Nothing leaves the computer unless you connect an outside service yourself.
It's still early. I've tested it on one Mac with one set of documents, and small local models make mistakes. That's why I'd really value feedback from people who use it on their own work.
Feedback that would help most
- Wrong or unsupported answers: what you asked, what it said, and what the cited page actually says.
- Documents it reads badly: scans, photos, tables or file types where the text comes out garbled or incomplete.
- Your PC and speed: your model and memory, and whether answers felt fast enough to use.
- Setup problems: anything confusing or broken during install or the first model download.
- Wiki mistakes: wrong facts, durges it shouldn't have made.
- Skills you'd want: office tasks you do every week that it could handle.
- What stopped you: the moment you went back to doing it by hand.
Open an issue at github.com/mfranzon/local-office. Please don't attach real documents.
I got the chance to run local office on Windows - Snapdragon and I have to say for any offline usage at scale the platform is perfect when you don't want to spend tokens or send proprietary information to the cloud.
Lowkey we need more software that comes packaged in a known mental model. Too many AI apps have this problem of wbeing chat first always, or just too complex.
@build_with_aj I am agree with you. I think that local office goes in that direction, it really seems a common virtual office platform but with a pre-builded setup for local AI. No need to setup things here and there.