Ollama

Paperclip.ai is a self-hosted AI project management platform. It gives you a Linear-style issue tracker where AI agents can actually pick up tasks, reason through them, and take action — all running on your own infrastructure. No cloud dependency, no data leaving your environment. For a homelab running a SOC stack, threat intelligence pipelines, and a growing collection of automation projects, having an AI agent that can work through a backlog is genuinely useful. ...

Most AI project tutorials end the same way: deploy to AWS, add an OpenAI API key, pay monthly. That works, but it sidesteps the more interesting question — what does it look like to build something real without handing control to a cloud provider? ...

If you’ve followed the Self-Hosted AI Stack walkthrough, you’ve got Ollama running locally, OpenClaw as your agent UI, and the whole thing locked down behind Tailscale. That’s a solid foundation. But a chat interface, however useful, isn’t the ceiling of what this stack can do. ...

There’s a certain appeal to running your own language model. No API costs, no data leaving your network, no rate limits, no terms of service to worry about when you feed it sensitive context. For anyone who works in security — or just values privacy — the idea of keeping inference local is worth the setup cost. ...

Every major cloud provider has an AI product now. Most of them are genuinely useful. They’re also asking you to send your data — your queries, your context, your documents — to infrastructure you don’t control, operated by a company whose incentives around data retention may not align with yours. ...