Thomas Underhill
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Run AI inside your perimeter, and prove it stayed there

30 min
Sep 17, 2026 11:00 AM

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What you'll learn

Size what you can run on hardware you already own

Model capability by memory tier, stated honestly, including where the gap to frontier APIs still matters.

Prove nothing left the machine during inference

Watch a network monitor during a real query. This is the check almost no deployment actually runs.

Turn a blocked project into a list of technical controls

Egress, retention, training on your inputs, subprocessors. Each objection has a specific answer you can name.

Why this topic matters

Two things changed since your organization decided this was impossible. Models small enough to self-host got good, and waiting stopped being free. The alternative to a sanctioned path is not that staff stop using AI, it is that they use consumer tools on their own phones with your data in them. The objection that stopped you was never about AI. It was about one deployment model, which is a solvable engineering problem.

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Thomas Underhill

Thomas Underhill

Product & Eng Leader (AWS, VMware, HashiCorp, NGINX) · Adjunct Professor

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