Niklas Lenz

My own AIMy own hardwareLocal-first

Sovereign AI systems — designed, built, operated.

What I do

AI systems — designed, built, operated

Architecture, hardware, operations — local-first, on my own hardware.
Build in public — every step out in the open

Building Pyra, documented step by step — the wins and the failures.
AI consulting PYRIQ

Consulting, training, implementation — my German practice, delivered verifiably compliant.

11.5K+ followers · 2 self-hosted Linux servers · 3 GPUs · local core for memory, privacy & routing — cloud only where frontier quality matters

Build

I’m building Pyra — a local-first AI system on my own hardware.
Self-hosted models, three GPUs, my rules.

Every step documented in public — the wins and the failures.

PYRIQ — my AI consulting practice (Germany).
Systems that save time and money — implemented verifiably compliant, with humans keeping the final say.

Work

My own AI system — running on my own hardware. Local-first, no subscriptions for the core, documented in public.

The same tech, applied commercially — AI that saves time and keeps data in-house.

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