01 / The bottleneck
Daily briefings either cost API money on every run or leak personal context to third-party clouds.
02 / The insight
For a morning brief, local models are good enough — and privacy plus zero marginal cost beat frontier reasoning.
03 / The build
A local-first briefing assistant on Ollama and OpenClaw with custom skills, running fully on private execution.
04 / The launch
Live for private daily use. No public signup — it is infrastructure, not SaaS.
05 / The outcome
Daily intelligence with no external API dependency and no data leaving the machine.
06 / What I learned the hard way
Local-first is a product decision, not a compromise: it changes what users trust the agent with.