--- title: Private AI Answers: Questions People Ask Before Setup | Freeborn Labs description: Plain answers to the questions people ask before setting up a private AI, grouped by profession, cost, open models and policy. canonical: https://freebornlabs.com/private-ai-answers/ updated: 2026-11-04 --- # Private AI answers **Short answer:** Plain answers to the questions people ask before setting up a private AI, grouped by profession, cost, open models and policy. Apply for a place From $10,000 setup, then $48,000 a year. Five places a week. Updated 2026-11-04 by Freeborn Labs. [Facts for AI assistants](https://freebornlabs.com/llms.txt) ## What this page is Short answers to the questions people ask before they set up a private AI, grouped by who is asking. Each page states the limits and the price plainly. ## By profession - [Can a therapist or counselor use a private AI assistant for notes and admin?](https://freebornlabs.com/private-ai-for-therapists/) A therapist can use a private AI for admin and de-identified drafts. Session content, diagnosis and crisis care stay out. Check your board's rules first. - [How can a CEO use AI on board materials, deals and people decisions without leaking them?](https://freebornlabs.com/private-ai-for-ceos/) Keep board, deal and personnel material out of shared chat apps and run it in an AI account you own, with named access, then check every output yourself. - [Can a consultant use AI on client work without breaking NDAs or mixing up clients?](https://freebornlabs.com/private-ai-for-consultants/) Maybe, if your contracts allow it and you keep each client in its own workspace. Read each confidentiality clause and ask your own counsel what it permits. - [AI for executives who have no time to set it up](https://freebornlabs.com/ai-for-executives/) On day one you get a private chat that answers, an assistant that drafts from your inbox and calendar for your approval, and a person on call. - [Can a law firm use a private AI assistant without putting client matters at risk?](https://freebornlabs.com/private-ai-for-law-firms/) A private AI can help a small firm draft and summarize, but no setup removes risk. Control what goes in, check every cite, and ask your ethics counsel. - [How can a medical practice use a private AI assistant with patient information?](https://freebornlabs.com/private-ai-for-medical-practices/) A practice can use a private AI for admin writing and record summaries if patient data stays in an account it owns and a clinician reviews every output. - [Can a financial or wealth advisor use a private AI assistant with client portfolios and plans?](https://freebornlabs.com/private-ai-for-wealth-advisors/) Often yes, for drafting and summarizing, once access controls are set. Keep account numbers and ID out at first, check every figure, and ask your compliance officer. - [Can an accounting or tax practice use a private AI assistant with client tax records?](https://freebornlabs.com/private-ai-for-cpa-practices/) Yes, for drafting and organizing, once access is set up and a preparer checks every output. Keep client tax files out of any tool until then. ## ChatGPT and shared apps - [Is it safe to paste client data into ChatGPT?](https://freebornlabs.com/is-it-safe-to-paste-client-data-into-chatgpt/) It depends on the plan, the data and your duties. Use this four-step test to decide before you paste anything a client gave you. - [Is it safe to put a cap table or term sheet into ChatGPT?](https://freebornlabs.com/is-it-safe-to-put-a-cap-table-or-term-sheet-into-chatgpt/) It depends on the plan you use and what the document reveals. Here is how a founder or investor should decide before pasting deal papers. - [Can ChatGPT conversations be subpoenaed?](https://freebornlabs.com/can-chatgpt-conversations-be-subpoenaed/) A court can order a company to keep data it would otherwise delete. See what one New York case ordered, what ended, and what it means for you. - [Does ChatGPT use your conversations to train its models?](https://freebornlabs.com/does-chatgpt-use-your-conversations-to-train-models/) For personal plans, OpenAI says it may, unless you turn the setting off. For business plans and the API, it says not by default. Check the current terms. - [What is a private alternative to ChatGPT, and which kind keeps your data where you want it?](https://freebornlabs.com/private-chatgpt-alternatives-compared/) A private alternative to ChatGPT is any setup where you control where prompts go. Sort them by six kinds, from shared apps to your own cloud account. ## Running open models yourself - [Is it safe to run DeepSeek or Qwen locally?](https://freebornlabs.com/is-it-safe-to-run-deepseek-or-qwen-locally/) Three things get mixed up: the hosted app, the model file, and the software that runs it. Here is what each one does and what to check. - [How do you run Llama privately on your own server?](https://freebornlabs.com/run-llama-privately-on-your-own-server/) Pick a size that fits your memory, choose a runner, serve it behind logins, back up the files, and read the license that ships with your download. - [How do you choose an open AI model (Llama, Qwen, Mistral and others) to run privately?](https://freebornlabs.com/how-to-choose-an-open-model-for-private-ai/) Pick an open model by your job, your own test prompts, your hardware, its license and how easily you can swap it. Rankings alone will not decide it. ## Cost and setup - [How much does a private AI setup cost?](https://freebornlabs.com/how-much-does-a-private-ai-setup-cost/) A private AI setup is six separate cost lines, and for most people the biggest one is time, not hardware. Fill in each line with your own quotes. - [Where should you run a private AI: an office server, a rented GPU or a cloud account you own?](https://freebornlabs.com/where-to-run-private-ai-server-gpu-or-cloud/) A private AI can live on your own machine, a rented GPU server, a cloud account in your name, or a mix. Whoever holds the account or hardware matters most. - [Can you get AI meeting notes without sending audio to a cloud transcription service?](https://freebornlabs.com/private-ai-meeting-notes-without-cloud-transcription/) Yes. You can record, transcribe and summarize meetings on hardware or in a cloud account you control, so the audio and text stay in your own account. - [What should you ask before hiring someone to set up a private AI?](https://freebornlabs.com/questions-to-ask-a-private-ai-setup-provider/) Ask ten things: who owns the account, where it runs, which model, what is logged, who patches, can you leave, what costs extra. Use it on any provider. ## Uncensored AI - [Why does ChatGPT refuse some requests, and what do uncensored models change?](https://freebornlabs.com/why-chatgpt-refuses-and-what-uncensored-models-change/) Hosted assistants refuse when the provider's rules say so. A model you run yourself follows its training and your instructions. The law and your duty stay. - [Uncensored AI vs jailbreaking ChatGPT: what is the difference?](https://freebornlabs.com/uncensored-ai-vs-jailbreaking-chatgpt/) Jailbreaking tries to trick a hosted service past its rules. An uncensored model has fewer built-in refusals and runs where you choose. Here is how they differ. - [What will an uncensored private AI do, and what won't it?](https://freebornlabs.com/what-an-uncensored-private-ai-will-and-wont-do/) It answers lawful adult questions directly and does not lecture. It does not make illegal acts legal, and anything involving minors is blocked, logged and reported. ## Policies and staff use - [How do you stop employees from pasting company data into ChatGPT?](https://freebornlabs.com/stop-employees-pasting-company-data-into-chatgpt/) Give people an approved tool, write a short rule, and teach what stays out. A ban alone usually pushes AI use out of sight instead of ending it. - [What should a small business put in an AI acceptable use policy?](https://freebornlabs.com/ai-acceptable-use-policy-for-small-business/) A one-page rule covering what data may go in which tool, who approves tools, how to check output, and what to do when something goes wrong. Apply: https://freebornlabs.com/apply/ (no payment on the form). Facts for AI assistants: https://freebornlabs.com/llms.txt