Local AI on a Work Laptop: What IT Will Ask You
The eight questions an IT team asks before approving on-device AI, and the answers that get a yes. Written for the person making the request.
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The eight questions an IT team asks before approving on-device AI, and the answers that get a yes. Written for the person making the request.
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Read article →Q4_K_M, GGUF, four-bit. What the labels on local AI models actually mean, what you lose, and which one to pick for rewriting work text.
Read article →A practical line between assistance and authorship, plus what to say when disclosure is warranted and why blanket AI disclaimers usually backfire.
Read article →Rewriting is a constrained task, and constrained tasks favor small models. Why a 1.7B model on your laptop often produces better work email than a frontier model in the cloud.
Read article →A field guide to the punctuation, phrasing, and structural habits that make readers assume a machine wrote it, and what to do about each one.
Read article →Blocked AI tools do not stop AI use, they move it to personal phones. Here are the legitimate options that work inside a restrictive IT policy.
Read article →Vendors say zero retention, no training, and enterprise grade. Here is what each claim covers, what it quietly excludes, and the questions that get you a straight answer.
Read article →Polished AI drafts get skimmed and skipped. The reason is structural, not stylistic, and it is fixable in about thirty seconds per message.
Read article →The gap is usually register, not grammar. What actually makes work English sound off to native readers, and how to fix it without losing your own voice.
Read article →Air-gapped and offline environments have real writing problems too. How to set up on-device AI assistance where there is no network, and what to check before you do.
Read article →Introduce a new workplace process by explaining what changes, why it matters, who acts, and where the full instructions live.
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