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Why Tholos AI
2 articlesWhy a private, offline AI workstation — and how to evaluate it.
For your work
3 articlesTholos AI for legal, healthcare, finance, and more.
How to use
3 articlesStep-by-step guides to get things done.
Workflows
14 articlesHow to use each built-in workflow.
- Using Document Q&A: ask questions about your files
- Using Document Summarization
- Using the Private Writing Assistant
- Using PII Redaction
Features
3 articlesUnderstand what Tholos AI can do.
Models
2 articlesHow Tholos AI uses open-weight models — and the wider landscape.
Hardware
2 articlesWhat Tholos AI needs to run, and hardware for running LLMs.
Developers
2 articlesDrive Tholos AI from your own scripts via the Local API Server.
Get help
2 articlesLicensing, activation, and support.
Tholos AI vs cloud AI: why offline?
Cloud assistants promise not to train on your data — here's why an offline architecture is a different (and stronger) guarantee, and when each is the right choice.
Verifying Tholos AI is truly offline (for IT & compliance)
For evaluators: exactly what network activity to expect, how to verify zero data egress yourself, and how to deploy in a controlled or air-gapped environment.
Tholos AI for legal teams
Review contracts, redact discovery, and search a precedent library — on privileged material that never leaves your machine.
Tholos AI for healthcare
Question case files, de-identify records, and dictate notes — keeping PHI inside your own controlled environment.
Tholos AI for finance & audit
Extract from invoices, question filings, and review agreements — keeping confidential and market-sensitive data on-device.
Getting started with Tholos AI
Install the app, start your free trial, load a model, and run your first private workflow — in minutes.
Which edition is right for you? Standard vs Professional vs Business
A plain-English comparison of the three Tholos AI editions and exactly what each one unlocks.
What can Tholos AI do? A tour of every workflow
From Document Q&A to PII redaction to meeting transcription — every built-in workflow, what it solves, and where to launch it.
How Tholos AI keeps your data private
No telemetry, no required network calls, one optional registry check — what "privacy by architecture" actually means.
Choosing the right AI model for your hardware
Light, Balanced, Power, and Workstation tiers explained — and how to pick a model that runs well on your machine.
Working with long documents: context windows explained
Why local AI can't hold a million tokens at once, how Tholos AI sizes the context to your hardware, and the right tool for big document sets.
Using Document Q&A: ask questions about your files
Drop in PDFs, contracts, or case files and ask plain-language questions, with every answer cited back to the source — all on-device.
Using Document Summarization
Summarize long or confidential documents as bullets, an executive brief, or a detailed write-up — one file or a whole folder, fully offline.
Using the Private Writing Assistant
Polish, shorten, expand, fix grammar, or adjust tone on sensitive text — with track-changes review, all on-device.
Using PII Redaction
Detect and remove names, emails, IDs, and account numbers before sharing — with a review step and true redaction, all on-device.
Using Private Translation
Translate documents and text between 21 languages on-device, with formatting preserved and an optional side-by-side DOCX export.
Using Meeting Notes
Record or import audio/video, transcribe it on-device with speaker labels, and get a summary and decisions — no audio ever leaves your machine.
Using Entity Extraction
Pull structured fields out of invoices, contracts, or notes into a CSV/XLSX table — with presets or your own custom columns, all on-device.
Using Contract Review
Get a structured first-read of an agreement — executive summary, clause-by-clause table, and risk flags by severity — on-device.
Working with scans & images (OCR)
How Tholos AI automatically reads text from scanned PDFs and images inside any file-based workflow — no separate step, all on-device.
Using the Knowledge Base (persistent RAG)
Build named, persistent document collections you can query across sessions with cited answers — import once, ask any time, all on-device.
Using Batch Processing
Run a workflow across many files unattended — stage a file list, mix workflows per file, and let it process them one by one, all on-device.
Using the AI Infographic Generator
Turn a document or figures into a visual one-pager in a live side-by-side canvas you refine by chatting — export PNG, PDF, or SVG.
Voice features: dictation & read-aloud
Speak instead of type, and have answers read back to you — both fully on-device, with no audio ever leaving your machine.
Can't find your workflow? Request one
If none of the built-in workflows fit your work, tell us what would help — right from the Workflows view. We read every request.
AI models in Tholos AI & the open-weight landscape
What kinds of models Tholos AI runs, the major open-weight families (Llama, Qwen, Mistral, and more), and why models come in different sizes.
Bring your own GGUF model
Run an open-weight model that isn't in the catalog — what GGUF you need, where to put it, and how it shows up in the app (also the air-gapped install path).
Set up the Local API Server
Enable the OpenAI-compatible local API (Business), get your key, and make your first call — all on-device, localhost only.
Local API Server reference
Endpoints, parameters, auth, limits, and curl/Python/JavaScript examples for the OpenAI-compatible local API.
Hardware for running local AI
What Tholos AI needs to run, GPU acceleration by platform, and how to choose hardware for running LLMs — from laptops to frontier workstations.
Setting up GPU acceleration
GPU acceleration is automatic in Tholos AI — how it works on Windows and macOS, how to confirm it, and what to do if no GPU is detected.
Activating, transferring, and managing your license
How activation works, what happens offline, moving your license to a new machine, and what trial expiry does to your data.
How to collect your log file
If Tholos AI crashes or misbehaves, here's where to find the log file on Windows and macOS, and how to send it to support.
Can’t find what you need?
Our team is happy to help with setup, licensing, or anything else.