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The original was posted on /r/selfhosted by /u/ComplexIt on 2025-03-15 08:37:26+00:00.


Hey r/selfhosted community! I wanted to share a project I've been working on that I think might interest folks who value privacy and local computing. It's called Local Deep Research - a fully self-hosted AI research assistant that:

  • Runs 100% locally using your own LLMs via Ollama (Mistral, DeepSeek, etc.)
  • Only sends search queries to external sources (ArXiv, Wikipedia, PubMed), keeping all processing on your hardware
  • Conducts multi-stage research through multiple iterations of questioning
  • Searches your private document collections using vector embeddings alongside online sources
  • Features a web interface for tracking research progress (but works via CLI too)
  • Works with modest hardware (anything that can run Ollama effectively)

What makes it different from most AI tools:

  • No API keys required for basic functionality (optional API keys only for specific search sources)
  • No data sent to OpenAI/Anthropic - all processing happens on your machine
  • Full control over which search sources are used (can disable external sources entirely)
  • Persistent storage of all research results locally

Examples of what it can generate:

Setup is simple on any system that can run Python and Ollama:

git clone pip install -r requirements.txt ollama pull mistral python main.py

I'd love to hear feedback from the self-hosted community - what other privacy-focused features would you like to see? Any integration ideas for other self-hosted tools in your stack?

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