The Self-Hosted AI Manifesto

The Future of AI Belongs to You

The AI revolution shouldn’t require you to hand your data, your models, and your competitive advantage to someone else’s servers. If AI is going to power your business, you deserve to control it — where it runs, what hardware it uses, and how it’s secured.

Self-hosting isn’t nostalgia. It’s agency:

• The power to adopt cutting-edge open-source AI faster than SaaS platforms update
• The freedom to adapt and fine-tune without waiting for a provider’s roadmap to align with your needs
• The assurance that your training data, evaluation results, and competitive signals stay in your hands — not in a hyperscaler’s

In an era where public APIs can change overnight, and every prompt, response, and dataset you send could quietly train someone else’s models, private AI is the only AI that’s truly yours.

Hyperscaler Power, Without Hyperscaler Lock-In

Inside companies like Facebook, AI infrastructure feels effortless: one click, and you’ve got compute, models, monitoring, scaling, and security in place. That isn’t magic — it’s a process-driven, automation-heavy culture, supported by dedicated teams that turn an idea into a deployed, revenue-driving model in days.

That speed and agility is the real “secret sauce.” It’s why LLMs are only a fraction of big tech’s AI advantage — the rest is iteration velocity.

Batteries Included brings that same capability to your own stack:

• Automated infrastructure for deploying and iterating on AI models at hyperscaler speed
• Production-grade reliability without needing a 200-person platform team
• Run anywhere — on-prem, in your cloud, or even on your laptop — with the same tooling from dev to prod

Why This Matters Now

Self-hosting AI is still seen as “the hard way” because:

• It’s technically complex (GPU drivers, orchestration, networking, dependency hell)
• It’s brittle (security patches and version upgrades are easy to miss — until it’s too late)
• It’s slow (DevOps bottlenecks choke iteration speed)
• It’s risky (building on a third-party API is betting your future on someone else’s business plan)

We believe self-hosting should be as easy to consume as a public endpoint — without giving up control.

Our Approach

• Everything open source — no black boxes, no lock-in. If you ever leave, the system is yours
• Identical dev and prod environments — spin up locally, deploy globally, with zero config drift
• Automation at every stage — upgrades, scaling, failover, security patches — so your team focuses on models, not maintenance
• Your infrastructure, your rules — no data leaves without your say-so

The Line We Draw

Public cloud AI services will always tempt you with speed and convenience. But every shortcut you take now compounds into:

• Higher long-term costs
• Compliance headaches
• Loss of competitive edge

Self-hosted AI isn’t the hard way — it’s the right way. And with Batteries Included, it’s finally the easy way too.