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Where your data lives.

Real AI capability without handing your data to someone else's cloud. Here is exactly how it is built.

§ 01 · AI deployment models

Private, hybrid, or external.

There is no single right architecture. The three deployment models sit on a spectrum: maximum control on one end, maximum speed on the other, and a balanced path between.

01 · maximum control

Private

Your AI stays entirely within your walls. The most control and the strongest compliance story, on infrastructure you run. AI runs entirely inside your environment: maximum control, highest sovereignty.

Best for: regulated data, PHI, and anything that can't leave your perimeter.

02 · balanced

Hybrid

Keep sensitive work in-house and reach for external models only when they add value, under policy and fully logged. Sensitive workloads stay local and burst to cloud when appropriate: a balanced approach.

Best for: teams that want frontier capability without exposing sensitive data.

03 · maximum speed

External

Managed models with nothing to run yourself. The fastest, lowest-overhead path when data sensitivity allows. Fully cloud-hosted: fastest deployment, lowest infrastructure.

Best for: non-regulated workflows where speed and low overhead win.

We help clients choose the deployment model that fits their business, data, and compliance requirements.

§ 02 · How it's built

Your data stays on your infrastructure.

01Your data stays put.Data residency
On your infrastructure, on-prem, your private cloud, or fully air-gapped.
02Models run locally.Local models
Tuned to your workflows; retrieval (RAG) pulls only from your own sources.
03Everything is logged.Logging
Every prompt and output is logged on your systems, with role-based access and output guardrails.
04Minimized & approved.Hybrid / external
In hybrid/external mode, only minimized, policy-approved content reaches an external model, and it's logged.
05Audit-ready posture.Compliance
Supports HIPAA, SOX, NIST 800-53, ISO 27001; simplifies SOC-2 and vendor-security reviews.

Architecture diagram and a one-page FAQ available on request.

§ 03 · Your environment

Want the architecture for your environment?

We'll walk your security and infrastructure teams through the private, hybrid, and air-gapped options, and how WCG Private AI solutions run inside your perimeter.

Explore WCG Private AI solutions →

Discuss your first workflow.

We'll cover where your data lives, what gets logged, and which architecture fits your compliance requirements. A senior person reads every note, and you hear back within one business day.

Not ready to talk? The Operator's Guide to Practical AI covers how to scope, de-risk, and measure a first AI workflow without losing control of your data. Get the guide →

Mete TuzcuFounder & Principal Consultant · Wellesley Cove Group
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