Here because your preferred AI service is down? Claude down? ChatGPT down? One of the reasons to consider a local AI build. Adding AI to your workflow, then relying on a service that may not be there puts your business at risk. The more your staff rely on such tools, the greater that risk exposure
How Mikka actually works
Mikka now tuns on a Mac Mini, Mac Studio Ultra, and HP ZGX in our office, not in someone else’s data centre. Mikka brings together local AI models, secure memory, specialist services and practical automation. She can monitor systems, prepare daily briefings, research SEO opportunities, draft content, surface decisions and learn from feedback – while keeping sensitive information on hardware you control and requiring approval before consequential actions.
Most importantly, Mikka is disaster tolerant and self-healing. Always available.
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AI service availability
Current service health reported by each provider's official status page.
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Managed AI securityOpenAI
ChatGPT consumer serviceClaude
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The longer-term ambition is for Mikka to become a more persistent, trusted intelligence that understands our priorities, remembers why decisions were made and becomes increasingly useful through accumulated context and experience.
Mikka demonstrates what local AI can become when it is built around an individual rather than a generic audience. You do not need to recreate her exact architecture. The opportunity is to imagine an AI system shaped around your own work, knowledge, values and boundaries – one that runs on your terms and steadily grows into something uniquely yours.
That is the same shape as the advice that runs through everything else on this site: the goal is not to avoid AI, and it is not to adopt it without thinking. It is to build the structure that lets you use it confidently – a secure AI gateway for staff, an AI control layer that enforces the rules automatically, a clear answer to the AI sovereignty question of where your data actually goes. Mikka is those ideas, built, running, and doing real work every day rather than sitting in a slide deck.
Where this goes next
Mikka is still growing. You can see the live version of the classification idea, in a form built for visitors rather than for us, on this site – the Mikka widget in the corner of every page is a public demonstration of the same classify-then-route thinking that runs Mikka itself. The full platform lives at mikka.uk.
If the question this raises for you is what the equivalent of Mikka’s gate would look like for your organisation – what AI you could use confidently if the right structure were in place – that is precisely the conversation our AI Assurance services exist to have. No obligation, and we will tell you honestly whether you need us or not.
If you are not sure what AI tools are in use inside your organisation, an AI Exposure Review gives you a clear, independent picture - what is being used, what data it touches, and where the real risks are.
