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title: "Guides — Aventail™"
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Locai is now Aventail™ learn about the rebrand here: https://aventail.co.uk/newsroom/locai-rebrands-as-aventail

# Guides

Practical guides to running and routing AI across your own hardware, approved machines and frontier APIs.

## LM Studio vs Aventail™: local AI, devices and routing for teams

Compare LM Studio and Aventail™ for local AI, remote devices and enterprise routing. Assess deployment, data boundaries, cost and beta routing with a practical checklist.
https://aventail.co.uk/guides/lm-studio-vs-aventail

## Ollama vs Aventail™: apps, devices and routing

Compare Ollama and Aventail™ for Claude apps, local AI and managing multiple devices. Explore Connect, fleet management and routing to peer devices in beta.
https://aventail.co.uk/guides/ollama-vs-aventail

## Keeping sensitive AI requests within approved infrastructure

Decide where each AI request may run, evaluate it on the device, and keep every permitted fallback within the same boundaries.
https://aventail.co.uk/guides/ai-data-residency

## From GPU capacity to a usable inference service

Give customers a way to deploy models and use your compute, with an inference engine and orchestration layer working together.
https://aventail.co.uk/guides/gpu-capacity-to-inference-service

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