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Series · 2 posts, in reading order.
Building Orazaka
How a sovereign AI engine gets built on one Mac and a few rented GPUs: the choices, the migrations, what broke.

Why I build sovereign AI in Montréal
A GPU rented in Montréal, a Quebec privacy law, and three plain questions to ask any AI tool. What sovereign means at Krizaka, what it costs, and what is still unsolved.

An AI platform on one Mac: what breaks, what Spring AI 2 changed, and where the laptop gives up
A Mac out of breath, a ClassCastException that killed the chat, models that became database rows. What I learned running Orazaka on a laptop.