niceley.ai · planning worksheet
Local AI hardware sizing
Size the real workload before shopping for a GPU. This worksheet produces the evidence a hardware quote should be based on.
Day-one job
What exact task from the last week should this machine complete?
Representative inputs
What documents, audio, context size, and output length make a fair test?
Quality floor
What must a useful answer contain, and what mistakes make it unusable?
Privacy boundary
What data must stay local? Is any network exception allowed?
Response time
How long may one normal answer or batch job take?
Concurrency
How many people, services, or background jobs use the system at once?
Existing hardware
List CPU, GPU, system memory, storage, operating system, and age.
Operations
Who owns updates, backup, physical security, power, noise, and repair?
Planning lane — not a quote
□ Prove it on hardware already owned
□ Dedicated box · roughly $2k–$4k
□ Larger local system · roughly $4k–$8k
Acceptance evidence
Candidate model: ____________________ Tested response time: __________ Peak memory: __________ Concurrent users: __________ Unplug test: □ pass □ fail