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Private AI on a bank's own PCs: what fully offline really takes

No server, no internet, no data leaving the building. The engineering behind Navik, from local models to encrypted PC-to-PC search.

INIntellection engineering team

Outline

Why 'on-premise' wasn't enough for this client
Running a language model on an ordinary PC
Search by meaning across every drive
PC-to-PC search with encryption and a tamper-evident audit log
Every figure linked to its source

Navik · offline

Summarise the loan files for Shah Polymers

Business Report Summary ready: 3-year financials, covenants and top 3 risks. Each figure links to its source file.

12 files · nothing left this PC

Banking client (confidential) · Banking & insuranceConfidential

Navik: private, offline document AI

A fully offline desktop AI assistant for a bank's credit teams. It finds, reads and summarises documents across every drive on a PC, builds credit-review reports from loan files, and lets colleagues search each other's shared folders securely, with no server and no internet.

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Private AI on a bank's own PCs: what fully offline really takes

Outline

Navik: private, offline document AI

Building something that should run for years?