11COMPANY / WHY LOCAL
Why a local lab
Seat subscriptions and metered clouds will keep rising. The leverage is a lab you own — customize the harness, keep the data, and pay a provider only for the tokens you actually burn.
Cost is the receipt. Control is the architecture. Read how Bastion keeps the loop.
01 / WHY
Control stays on disk
Repos, traces, and evals do not leave the building unless you choose a provider call.
02 / WHY
Harness free, tokens optional
Four loops stay on disk. Bastion tools run locally at no seat cost. Attach Nebius, Ollama, or any compatible API when you need inference.
03 / WHY
Same loop when you scale
Start on a laptop. When you need more metal, keep the workflow — do not rewrite the lab for a new cloud.
Pay for tokens. Not for the lab.
A sketch of subscription drag versus a local harness plus metered inference.
PLOT
Subscriptions vs your lab
Cloud seats keep compounding. A local harness is a one-time install — you only pay providers for the tokens you actually use.