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Building a Private AI Server on Raspberry Pi 5

Privacy is the new luxury. Why send your data to OpenAI when you can run a decent model at home?

Hardware Checklist

  • Raspberry Pi 5 (8GB RAM recommended)
  • NVMe SSD for fast model loading
  • OpenClaw for agent orchestration

Software Stack

We recommend using Ollama for model serving and OpenClaw for the agent logic.

  1. Install Ollama
  2. Pull llama3 or mistral
  3. Connect OpenClaw

Need Help?

Our OpenClaw Setup Guide covers this in detail.

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More Resources

Want to build this yourself? The Agent Ops Toolkit ($19) has everything you need.

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