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Personal AI Assistants

A private AI working environment designed around how you or your business actually operates—deployed locally, in an always-on private cloud, or as a portable containerized system.

Private assistants start at $695 · Managed plans from $99 monthly

AI consultants and small-business clients collaborating on a private personal AI assistant in a boutique retail workspace
IN PRACTICEPersonal AI Assistants

Not another generic chatbot

A useful assistant begins with the work

We design the assistant around a defined role, trusted knowledge, approved tools, and clear limits. The goal is not to install fashionable software. It is to create a dependable working environment that helps a real person or team handle information and repetitive work with less friction.

For small and mid-sized businesses, that can mean faster customer response, easier reporting, cleaner administrative handoffs, and less knowledge trapped in one person's inbox. For retailers, it can connect product, inventory, customer, vendor, and store-operating context without removing people from the customer experience.

Assistant brief

What we define before deployment

  1. 01

    Role

    The recurring responsibilities, requests, and outcomes the assistant is expected to support.

  2. 02

    Knowledge

    The approved files, policies, product information, business context, and memory boundaries it may use.

  3. 03

    Actions

    The tools, integrations, approvals, escalation points, and records required for the assistant to do useful work safely.

  4. 04

    Operating model

    Where it runs, who owns it, how it is backed up, and how usage, updates, and improvement are managed.

We recommend the smallest deployment that can perform the defined job reliably, then add capability after the foundation is proven.

Deployment choices

Private by design. Flexible by architecture.

Choose the operating model that fits your privacy needs, availability requirements, internal capability, and growth plan.

  1. 01

    Private local assistant

    Installed on a business-owned workstation, mini PC, or dedicated device for maximum data control and direct access to approved local files.

  2. 02

    Always-on private cloud

    Deployed to an isolated VPS so the assistant can work securely around the clock without depending on an office computer staying online.

  3. 03

    Containerized agent

    Packaged in a portable, isolated environment that is easier to back up, monitor, migrate, update, and expand as the business grows.

OpenClaw & Hermes Agent

We support both OpenClaw and Hermes Agent as deployment foundations, including local, VPS, and containerized configurations where appropriate. We remain framework-agnostic so each customer receives the better fit—and retains a practical path to migrate or upgrade as the ecosystem changes.

What we build

The practical layers of a personal AI system

  1. 01

    Business-aware memory

    Organize approved preferences, operating context, customers, products, policies, and recurring responsibilities so each interaction starts with useful context.

  2. 02

    Knowledge and document access

    Connect SOPs, product information, files, notes, and reference material with clear source boundaries and permission controls.

  3. 03

    Practical communication

    Use the assistant through approved web, desktop, email, or messaging channels with an identity and tone shaped around the business.

  4. 04

    Skills and integrations

    Add calendar, inbox, research, CRM, inventory, reporting, and custom workflow capabilities according to the job the assistant must perform.

  5. 05

    Automation with approval

    Let the assistant prepare work, route information, and trigger repeatable actions while a person remains responsible for sensitive decisions.

  6. 06

    Managed reliability

    Keep backups, updates, monitoring, documentation, and support separate from the initial build so the system remains understandable and maintainable.

Aura Logic consultants working with small-business clients to design a personal AI assistant

Built with the customer

Your assistant should understand your operating reality

We work through the actual documents, decisions, customer moments, and recurring tasks that define the job. That collaboration shapes the assistant's knowledge, vocabulary, permissions, integrations, and handoff behavior.

The result is a solution your team can explain and use—not an opaque demo that looks impressive for a week and then becomes another abandoned tool.

See how engagements work

For SMB and retail teams

Useful where work and customer context meet

01

Retail operations

Prepare inventory summaries, organize vendor information, draft customer follow-up, surface product knowledge, and keep recurring store tasks visible.

02

Owner and executive support

Prepare meetings, organize projects, research decisions, create briefs, maintain priorities, and produce a useful daily operating summary.

03

Sales and customer care

Qualify inquiries, prepare responses, retrieve approved service information, update records, and hand off sensitive conversations to a person.

04

Administration and reporting

Find documents, extract information, prepare spreadsheets and reports, coordinate reminders, and reduce repetitive inbox and filing work.

Packages

Four clear ways to begin

Final scope reflects data volume, integrations, custom skills, workflow complexity, security requirements, and deployment architecture.

01

Starting at

$695

Personal AI Assistant

A focused private assistant installed directly on your computer.

Ongoing care from $99/month

  • One assistant framework
  • One AI provider
  • Basic memory and identity
  • Approved local file access
  • One communication interface
  • Security setup and onboarding
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02

Starting at

$1,495

Always-On AI Assistant

A private 24/7 assistant hosted on isolated cloud infrastructure.

Ongoing care from $199/month

  • Private VPS deployment
  • Persistent storage and memory
  • Secure remote access
  • Backups and basic monitoring
  • Messaging gateway
  • Launch documentation
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03

Starting at

$2,495

Professional AI Agent

A containerized assistant with deeper integrations, skills, and automation.

Ongoing care from $249/month

  • Portable container architecture
  • Advanced memory
  • Up to five integrations
  • Custom skills
  • Scheduled tasks and workflows
  • Priority launch support
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04

Starting at

$5,000

Executive AI System

A tailored AI chief of staff for complex personal and business workflows.

Ongoing care from $499/month

  • Knowledge-system design
  • Advanced workflow automation
  • Custom integrations and skills
  • Model-routing strategy
  • Dashboards and operating controls
  • Managed-service plan
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01

Build fee

Design, deployment, configuration, integrations, testing, and handoff.

02

Management fee

Optional support, monitoring, updates, backups, and ongoing improvement from $99 monthly.

03

Infrastructure + usage

Hosting, model/API consumption, storage, and third-party software are billed separately.

Frequently asked questions

No. We define the assistant's role, knowledge, memory, permissions, integrations, workflows, deployment architecture, testing plan, and ongoing ownership. Installation is one part of the implementation.

Ready to give your business a private AI working environment?

We’ll identify the first role worth building, recommend the right deployment model, and provide a clear scope for implementation, management, and expected operating costs.