Private AI Infrastructure

    Run AI where your sensitive data lives.

    Custom, open weight, fine tuned and proprietary LLMs deployed in private cloud, VPC, on premises, dedicated GPU or hybrid. We build the serving, GPU, routing, security and observability layer behind production AI.

    Sensitive data stays in your boundary

    Swap models, keep the app

    Costs you can forecast

    Book an AI Infrastructure Assessment Explore the ArchitectureAssessment from $9,500 · 5 to 7 days · Implementation from $20,000, assessment fee credited

    Private. Portable. Production ready.

    01Why this matters

    Right now your most sensitive information is leaving your company to reach a public AI.

    Every time a team member pastes a contract, a customer record, or an internal memo into ChatGPT or a similar public model, that data travels to servers you do not own, operated by a company you cannot audit. You are trusting a third party with information you would never email to a stranger. That is the real problem this service solves.

    Your data leaves the building

    Patient records, contracts, trade secrets, financial models, legal privilege — every prompt and every attached file lands on a third party's servers. You cannot fully control where it is stored, who sees it, or whether it is used to train future models.

    They set the price

    Token pricing rises whenever the provider decides. As your usage grows, so does a bill you cannot forecast or negotiate down.

    They control the model

    The provider can change, degrade, or retire the model overnight. Your workflow breaks and you have no say in when or how.

    What this service is for

    CTOLabX helps you stop sending sensitive information to public models. We figure out which of your workloads genuinely need a frontier API and which should run on infrastructure you control — then we build the layer that lets both coexist. Your application talks to one endpoint. The model behind it can be public or private, and your data stays where you decide.

    Keep sensitive data in

    Patient records, contracts and trade secrets stay on infrastructure you control.

    Pick the right model

    Use frontier APIs where quality matters, private models where privacy matters.

    Control your costs

    Dedicated GPUs can be cheaper than per-token pricing once volume is high enough.

    Swap models freely

    Change provider or model without rewriting your application.

    Your app should not care which model runs behind it. You change the model — the app stays the same.

    02Model support

    Bring the model that fits the workload.

    Commercial APIs, open weight models, fine tuned variants and your own models, behind one consistent interface.

    NVIDIA NemotronMeta LlamaAlibaba QwenDeepSeekZ.ai GLMMoonshot KimiMiniMaxMistralGoogle GemmaMicrosoft PhiFine tuned variantsLoRA adaptersInternally trained modelsDomain specific LLMs

    Deploy Nemotron, Llama, Qwen, DeepSeek, GLM, Kimi, Mistral, or your own model, inside infrastructure you control.

    Examples only, not partnerships

    NVIDIA positions Nemotron as a family of open models for enterprise and agentic workloads with deployment through frameworks such as vLLM and SGLang, and Meta makes Llama available for direct access and hosting. Nothing here implies partnerships, endorsements, certifications or guaranteed compatibility with every model version. The platform is provider neutral and workload driven.

    03Rationale

    Why run your own models?

    01

    Data control

    Sensitive data stays inside boundaries you own.

    02

    Model control

    You decide which versions run and when they change.

    03

    Domain specialization

    Fine tune on your terminology, workflows and internal knowledge.

    04

    Predictable economics

    At high utilization, dedicated inference changes the math. We model it before recommending it.

    05

    Deployment flexibility

    Private VPC, dedicated cloud, on premises, edge or hybrid.

    06

    No provider lock in

    Swap models without rebuilding the product.

    07

    Operational visibility

    Latency, throughput, GPU utilization and SLOs become observable.

    08

    Security and isolation

    Auth, tenancy, quotas and policy enforced at the inference layer.

    04Reference architecture

    Applications integrate once. Models and infrastructure evolve independently.

    Applications / Agents / Internal Products
    Unified AI Gateway / OpenAI compatible API
    Auth • Policy • Routing • Quotas • Fallback
    Commercial APIs | Private Models | Specialized Models
    Nemotron | Llama | Qwen | DeepSeek | GLM | Kimi | Mistral | Custom
    vLLM / SGLang / Other serving runtimes
    GPU / Cloud / VPC / On prem / Hybrid compute
    Metrics • Traces • Logs • Cost • Capacity • SLOs
    05Direct model coupling

    Before

    Changing models is an application migration.

    Product → OpenAI API

    Product → Anthropic API

    Product → Another model

    After

    Changing models is an infrastructure decision.

    Product

    ↓

    CTOLabX AI Platform Layer

    ↓

    OpenAI / Anthropic / Nemotron / Llama / Qwen / DeepSeek / GLM / Kimi / Custom

    OpenAI today. Nemotron, Llama, Qwen, DeepSeek, or your own model tomorrow. Your application does not change.

    06Core services

    The platform layer, engineered end to end.

    01

    Inference Platform Architecture

    Gateways, backends, tenancy, topology, failure domains.

    02

    Private Model Serving

    Open weight, fine tuned and proprietary models on vLLM, SGLang or equivalent.

    03

    GPU Infrastructure

    GPU selection, memory, clustering, scheduling, capacity, scaling.

    04

    Routing & Provider Abstraction

    Unified endpoints, policy based selection, fallback, model migration.

    05

    Performance Engineering

    Batching, KV cache, quantization, concurrency, latency, throughput.

    06

    Observability & Reliability

    Metrics, traces, SLOs, rate limits, retries, circuit breakers, incidents.

    07

    Security & Isolation

    Auth, tenant isolation, secrets, quotas, network boundaries, data flow controls.

    08

    Cost & Capacity Economics

    APIs vs hosted GPU vs dedicated GPU vs hybrid, on your real workload.

    09

    Model Lifecycle

    Benchmarking, rollout, canaries, versioning, rollback, deprecation.

    07Private vs commercial vs hybrid

    The decision is made workload by workload.

    Commercial APIs

    Keep it here

    • Frontier quality is critical
    • Traffic is variable
    • Simplicity beats ownership

    Private AI

    Bring it in house

    • Sensitive data needs control
    • Locality or residency matters
    • Custom models required
    • Utilization justifies dedicated GPU

    Hybrid

    Split the traffic

    • Workloads differ in privacy needs
    • Frontier models earn their cost on some tasks
    • High volume work runs private

    We are not an open source LLM shop. We decide what belongs on frontier APIs, what belongs on private models, and build the infrastructure to run both safely.

    08Where this applies

    Any organization handling valuable, confidential or regulated data.

    Financial Services

    Customer dataRisk modelsRegulated workflows

    Healthcare

    PHIClinical workflowsProtected records

    Legal

    PrivilegeContractsDiscovery

    Insurance

    ClaimsUnderwritingActuarial data

    Government

    SovereigntySecure networksControlled environments

    Defense & Aerospace

    Engineering IPControlled networksOperational data

    Pharma & Life Sciences

    Research dataDrug discoveryProprietary IP

    Enterprise SaaS

    Data isolationPrivate deploymentDedicated inference

    Manufacturing

    Technical docsProcess dataEngineering IP
    09How we work

    01

    Assess

    • Workloads, providers and AI spend
    • Concurrency, latency, reliability
    • Sensitive data boundaries
    • GPU feasibility

    02

    Architect

    • Gateway and routing design
    • Private and public model split
    • Serving stack and GPU capacity
    • Security, SLOs and cost model

    03

    Build & Operate

    • Gateway, serving and fallback
    • Auth, quotas, telemetry
    • Scaling and deployment workflows
    • Benchmarking, rollout, rollback
    10Packages

    Published prices for platform work.

    Start with the assessment.

    Start here

    AI Platform Architecture Assessment

    From $9,500 one-time

    5 to 7 business days

    • Current state and workload analysis
    • Target architecture and routing design
    • API vs GPU economics
    • Phased implementation roadmap
    Book a call

    Private AI Readiness Assessment

    From $12,500 one-time

    Evaluating private, VPC, dedicated GPU, on prem or hybrid

    • Feasibility and risk view
    • Data boundary mapping
    • Deployment options compared
    Book a call

    Private LLM Architecture

    From $15,000 one-time

    Custom and open weight models

    • Serving stack and GPU capacity
    • Networking and security boundaries
    • Observability and operating model
    Book a call

    AI Platform Build

    From $30,000 phased

    Production implementation

    • Gateway, routing and model serving
    • GPU infrastructure and auth
    • Observability and deployment workflows
    Book a call

    AI Platform Optimization

    From $7,500 per month

    Ongoing

    • Capacity planning and cost reduction
    • Inference optimization and migrations
    • Benchmarking and incident reviews
    Book a call

    Fractional Head of AI Platform

    From $12,500 per month

    Ongoing

    • Senior ownership of production AI infrastructure
    • Roadmap and vendor decisions
    • Team and delivery direction
    Book a call
    11Why CTOLabX

    AI applications are easy to demo. Production AI infrastructure is harder.

    Production AI needs disciplines that rarely sit inside one consultant. We operate at that layer, and design systems that stay reliable as traffic, models, providers, costs and security requirements change.

    We do not sell you a model. We build the infrastructure that lets you choose the right model without rebuilding your product.

    Distributed systemsGPU infrastructureInferenceModel servingPerformanceNetworkingSecurityObservabilityReliabilityModel lifecycleCloud economics

    Your AI models will change. Your application should not have to.

    Get an independent read on your model architecture, inference economics, security boundaries and GPU requirements before your next AI infrastructure decision.

    Book an AI Platform Assessment