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Local AI installation for Australian offices

FIRST DRAFTTwenty minutes of call notes.
FD1 · Brightwork demonstration

Private AIfor every desk.Right in your office.

Custom PCs, multi-GPU servers and compact machines, with local language models for writing, reading, search, meetings and more. Built, installed and ready for your team’s work.

FD1 · Client letterQwen3.8-27B

Written on our local machines.
Replayed, not live.

MADE HERE. KEPT IN YOUR OFFICE.Explore the work   ↓

The office assistant becomes part of your office.

From one desk to a whole office: custom PCs, multi-GPU servers and mini PCs, with local language models installed around the work you do. Four workflows get your team started.

Documents stay on your hardware.Control over your workflow.A person checks every draft.
How the installation works

Selected demonstrations / Five office tasks

Different work.
Same machine.

Leases, call notes, policies, meetings and letters. Five fictional document sets made to explore what a local office setup can do.

FIRST DRAFT
02 / Drafting / One call, four drafts

FIRST DRAFT

A bookkeeper’s call notes become a client letter, an email, a file note and a text.

See every document
OPEN FILE
03 / Search / Twelve policies, one question

OPEN FILE

An office manual, indexed on the machine. Ask in plain words; the answer names its policy.

See every question
01 / 05

Brightwork fictional demonstrations — not client documents. Source documents written for the demonstrations; every output generated on our own machines and checked by a person. Swipe, scroll sideways or choose a dot.

Who it’s for

Built for work that shouldn’t leave the building.

The teams we set up local AI for, and the work each setup takes on. Every card opens a demonstration: fictional documents, worked on our own machines and checked by hand.

  • FIRST DRAFT demonstration

    Accountants & bookkeepers

    Client letters, file notes and lodgement reminders.

    See the demonstration
  • FINE PRINT demonstration

    Property managers

    Lease summaries, key dates and tenant questions.

    See the demonstration
  • ON THE RECORD demonstration

    Builders & trades

    Site meeting minutes, variations and action lists.

    See the demonstration
  • PLAIN ENGLISH demonstration

    Clinic administration

    Insurer and supplier letters, explained and answered.

    See the demonstration
  • OPEN FILE demonstration

    Practices with a manual

    Policy questions answered from your own documents.

    See the demonstration
  • FINE PRINT demonstration

    Legal & conveyancing offices

    First-pass contract summaries and questions to raise.

    See the demonstration
  • IN THE INBOX demonstration

    Customer service teams

    Replies drafted from your own policies and past answers.

    See the demonstration
  • CODE CHECK demonstration

    IT & software teams

    Code help, scripts and spreadsheet formulas, kept off the cloud.

    See the demonstration
  • SIDE BY SIDE demonstration

    Research & consulting

    Proposals and reports read, compared and cited.

    See the demonstration

01 / The possibilities

One document.
A stack of finished work.

A lease, a phone call, a manual, a meeting, a letter. Then the summary, the draft and the answer, written on the machine.

02 / The control

Keep the facts.
Lose the shorthand.

Rough notes in, a letter out. A dense letter in, plain words out. Your team reads it, fixes it and decides what gets sent.

BEFORE / SOURCEAFTER / LOCAL DRAFT

03 / The search

Ask the whole
office manual.

Twelve policies, indexed on the machine. Ask in plain words; the answer is written only from the passages it finds, and names the policy each point came from.

Question

04 / The office payoff

From one phone call to everything that follows.

A letter for the file, an email for the phone, a text for the reminder. Each one written for where it will be read.

01 / Letter · FD1
02 / Email · FD2
03 / Text message · FD4
CallNotesDraftCheckSend

Four formats from one twenty-minute call. The notes, the prompts and every output are kept with the demonstration, along with the corrections a person made.

05 / The difference

Same work.
Different machine.

Cloud assistants are good at being everywhere. A machine in your office is good at being yours. Six differences an office feels in the first month, each with its source.

  1. Where it runs

    Your files are read in your office.

    Drafts, summaries and file searches run on a machine you own, so documents are not sent to another company’s data centre to be processed.

    The OAIC says deploying AI “locally or on premises is likely to be more privacy-preserving as it limits the risks of third party access to the data.” Microsoft stores Australian tenants’ Copilot chats in Australia, but says customers outside the EU “may have their queries processed in the US, EU, or other regions”, and now expects in-country processing for Australia by the end of 2026. Checked : OAIC guidance (opens a new tab) · Microsoft Learn (opens a new tab) · Microsoft announcement (opens a new tab).

  2. Client confidentiality

    Client files stay with you.

    A model on your own machine is not another company your client’s information is passed to, so “where will it be used and stored?” has a one-line answer.

    The Tax Practitioners Board, 22 July 2026: practitioners “must obtain permission from each client prior to divulging client information to a third party (which can include entering client information into AI models and tools, depending on how these tools are configured and used)”. Victoria’s Legal Services Board: lawyers “cannot safely enter confidential, sensitive or privileged client information into public AI chatbots/copilots”, and should review the contract terms of commercial tools. This is not legal advice; check your own obligations. Checked : TPB guidance (opens a new tab) · VLSB+C statement (opens a new tab).

  3. No meter, no window

    Ask as often as the work needs.

    No per-seat allowance, no rolling window and no monthly reset. The limit is the machine itself, which we size with you before quoting.

    On Google Workspace Business Standard and Plus, the Gemini app’s Pro model allows “Up to 25 prompts per 4 hours”. On ChatGPT Business, once included usage is used and the workspace has no credits, “the feature is blocked”. Microsoft caps its Copilot Researcher agent at “a maximum of 25 queries per user per month”. Checked : Google Workspace Help (opens a new tab) · OpenAI Help Center (opens a new tab) · Microsoft Learn (opens a new tab).

  4. No one else keeps a copy

    Your drafts are deleted when you decide.

    Prompts, drafts and meeting transcripts are stored on your machine, under your retention rules, with no vendor log for a vendor’s reviewers or a vendor’s court case to reach.

    A 2025 court order in The New York Times’ case against OpenAI covered ChatGPT Team (now Business) conversations until 26 September 2025; Enterprise and Edu were excluded, and OpenAI still holds April to September 2025 data. ChatGPT Business removes deleted conversations within 30 days “unless longer retention is required by law, or is reasonably necessary to protect our services”. Google keeps Workspace Gemini app chats for 18 months by default. Checked : OpenAI on the court order (opens a new tab) · OpenAI enterprise privacy (opens a new tab) · Google Workspace Privacy Hub (opens a new tab).

  5. Continuity

    The model you tested is the one that answers.

    Model files sit on your disk and change only when you choose to update them, so drafts and summaries keep working the way your team approved them.

    OpenAI retired GPT-4o, GPT-4.1, o4-mini and GPT-5 from ChatGPT on 13 February 2026, and GPT-5.1 on 11 March 2026. Google folded Gemini into Workspace in January 2025, with Business Standard at US$14 a user, “only $2 more” than before; Microsoft updated its business suite prices from 1 July 2026. Checked : OpenAI Help Center (opens a new tab) · Google Workspace blog (opens a new tab) · Microsoft Partner Center (opens a new tab).

  6. No search engine in the loop

    Your words stay off search engines.

    The model answers from your documents and what it already knows. A local model server has no web search of its own, so nothing is looked up online unless web search is added to your setup.

    Unless an administrator sets its policy, Microsoft 365 Copilot can send short web queries to Bing that “may also be informed by data within a Microsoft 365 document”, and Microsoft’s Data Protection Addendum “doesn’t apply” to them. Checked : Microsoft Learn (opens a new tab).

Competitor facts are quoted from the linked pages on the date shown and may change. One thing is not a difference: Microsoft, OpenAI and Google each say their business plans do not train models on your data by default. Brightwork publishes no speed or throughput figures of its own until they are measured on Brightwork machines, and the calculator below is a budget comparison, not a forecast.

06 / Your next investment

Keep the assistant.
Own the capacity.

Every busy week needs drafts, summaries and answers. Put repeatable work on your own hardware, give your team room to ask, and keep the cloud tools you still need.

Explore PCs, servers and mini PCs

Put your seats in perspective

What do your AI seats cost?

Three widely used business assistants.
Choose the seats you pay for.

Published business plan prices · US dollars · per user · billed monthly
AssistantSeatSeatsOfficial pricing
Microsoft 365 CopilotAdd-on to Microsoft 365Needs a Microsoft 365 business plan underneath, which you keep for email.Current plans for Microsoft 365 Copilot (opens a new tab)
ChatGPT BusinessAssistant seatsMinimum two seats. Usage limits and credits apply.Current plans for ChatGPT Business (opens a new tab)
Claude TeamAssistant seatsMinimum two members. Premium seats add usage.Current plans for Claude Team (opens a new tab)

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Prices checked . US list prices per user with monthly billing, excluding tax. Annual billing is lower: Copilot Business US$21.00, ChatGPT Business Standard US$20.00 and Claude Team Standard US$20.00 a user a month. Gemini is included in Google Workspace plans rather than sold as a separate seat, so there is nothing separate to count. Check the official plans for current pricing and eligibility.

A few seats can be good value. The case for local grows with repeatable work, shared capacity and control. Compare results and total ownership costs: local workflows use different models.

Your monthly AI budget

What could that budget build?

Start with the seats above, or set your own monthly spend for the AI tools you use. Explore how much of that budget you could put towards your own local AI setup.

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Using your selected seats above.

Selected seats use an estimated conversion of US$1 = $1.440 AUD. Rate checked 17 October 2026 ↗. Excludes tax and card conversion fees.

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Compare that with the complete cost of ownership over 24 months: hardware, installation, electricity, software and support. Only count seats you would actually stop paying for.

Let’s size the right machine for your office

Office AI installation from $2,895.75 including GST, plus hardware. This is a budget comparison, not a forecast. Totals use your monthly amount.

07 / Your next capability

What could your office keep in-house?

Request a demonstration or tell us about the setup you need. We’ll review your request and agree the next step with you.

What goes into the cost?

Your fixed written quote covers the agreed job, with hardware, licences and travel itemised where applicable. Complete-PC prices depend on configuration. Brightwork receives payment upfront before ordering hardware and building.

Send your request to Brightwork. We’ll review the details and reply by email about the next step.

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