Field Notes

October 6, 2026

Local-first is a procurement requirement, not a preference

For most industrial data, the question is not which cloud to use. It is whether the data can leave the site at all. We build as if it cannot.

Ask a plant what happens to a report estate if the WAN drops for a shift. The answer tells you whether a hosted tool is viable there.

Our Enterprise BI Manager runs entirely locally: report files in, report files out. UnderDock runs inference across local nodes with no cloud endpoint in the path. It is a harder build. It is also the only version that survives a security review and a bad network day.