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G’DAY!
We’re Zai Node … a leading Australian private AI company
Zai Node delivers full stack, sovereign, private AI solutions, including AI consulting, apps and GPU infra.
Next-gen private compute
Zai Node is Australia’s turn-key private AI company. We build custom, AI-native software applications and infrastructure so clients can use AI on prem or in single-tenant environments. Ideal for CTOs and CIOs who need scalable performance, regulatory compliance, cost savings, and total data control and privacy.
MADE BY TOP AI/ML ENGINEERS, DATA SCIENTISTS & BUSINESS EXPERTS
WHAT WE DO
Your AI strategy, your LLM, your data … your AI
Consulting
AI strategy, roadmaps, policies, coaching, workshops. Identifying high-impact use cases unique to your goals and operations.
Applications
Developing and building custom AI tools for specific use cases. Using the latest, fit for purpose AI models.
Infrastructure
Our sovereign GPU servers and workstations use the latest HPC for cost control, data privacy, energy efficiency, and ease of use.
A GENUINE ALTERNATIVE TO HYPERSCALERS & BIG TECH
AI that works for you and no one else
Big savings & cost certainty
Zai Node avoids the high and uncertain cost, waste, and lack of visibility with public clouds, hyperscalers and LLMs. Our servers can process petabytes/day far more cost-effectively than public models.
Trust & compliance
Safely and securely unlock the benefits of AI. Organisations who keep AI closed to their data unlock powerful insights and competitive advantages.
Secure, auditable inputs & outputs
Know everything in and out of your AI, including reasoning. Explains AI’s decisions and advice to better manage liability and risk. Prompts and outputs stay entirely in your environment.
Fast access
GPUs and POCs in hours or days, not months or even years. Plug, play and stop solutions enabling fast, low risk roll out.
Model neutrality
We aren’t aligned to specific models allowing us to recommend the best models for the use case. As LLMs evolve, our flexible solutions quickly adopt new models which are immediately available to you.
Expert 24/7 support
Get hands-on, responsive, local and helpful support from dedicated human engineers.
Zai Node’s private AI is ideal for training, deploying models locally & research
LLM inference & fine tuning
We’re model agnostic, taking the best, fit-for-purpose private models from Meta, Google, Qwen, Mistral & Alibaba etc. into production for your use case.
Agentic chatbots & copilots
Fully offline, private & fast. Optimised for text question-answering retrieval.
Local RAG pipelines
Private Q&A bots with real-time indexing. Our RAG systems enable a chatbot / virtual assistant to provide answers, accurately and truthfully.
Build fast, pay less, scale smart & protect data with Zai Node's private AI solutions.
Build fast, pay less, scale smart & protect data with Zai Node's private AI solutions.
Using the most suitable public models, in private
Use the most suitable LLM without subscribing to each individually. Quickly access new models and updates when they are released, via our custom applications. Let us configure and train them for your use case.
Using highly performant, cost effective GPUs
Get up and running fast with access to our leading AI-optimised GPUs.
Deployed anywhere
Take full control of your AI — deploy your workloads on our infra, on-prem or your DC, and scale flexibly as needed.
Our datacentre
Our IRAP certified DC, dedicated private environment to maintain strict governance and compliance.
On-prem
Ensure complete data sovereignty with an air-gapped deployment securely housed behind your firewall.
Your datacentre
Using your trusted data centre provider to maximise your current arrangements.
OUR APPROACH
We don’t just sell products
We provide AI solutions. We listen, guide and help clients customise and use private AI. We don’t just sell products or provide model access, and let clients “figure it out”.
Our most successful solutions are built in collaboration with our clients. Our engagement model is agile, transparent and founded in human-centred design and change management principles, ensuring the final solution is powerful and practical.
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Assess client goals, requirements, tech landscape and strategy, AI use case possibilities, compliance obligations, context, risks, governance, project charter, scope. See more >
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Rapid POC to stakeholders. Use POC feedback to iterate. Agile approach minimises risk, ensures tool evolves to meet the genuine user needs.
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Develop POC into robust, secure, scalable enterprise-ready system. Emphasis on integration, ensuring our solutions can seamlessly connect with existing systems.
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Throughout dev & field trials, system is iteratively UAT. Benchmarks for evaluation set through collaboratively defined design guidelines, performance measures, and contextual criteria.
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We manage full deployment & implementation into production env. Includes comprehensive training, change management. Ongoing support ensuring AI operates ethically.
Why us
1. Diverse expertise
Very few local teams have the diverse business and tech skills that we do. Our engineering team are experts in each layer — hardware, firmware, OS, containers, software, HPC, networking & DCs. Our engineers are teamed with our HCI, privacy, commercial & legal experts.
2. We listen then act
We listen to clients, then we provide a consulting led solution, which may or may not include us. We’re a solution provider, where we guide and help clients use private AI, software and hardware — not just give clients access to models and call it a day.
3. Great comms
Whilst AI is very good at communicating … everything is about people. Our team take immense pride being good communicators.
We keep our clients informed — concisely, timely, authentically and jargon-free. Our clients know we have integrity, protect their interests, and can be counted on in critical moments.
4. Our purpose & values
We want everyone who wants to benefit from AI to do so safely, securely and privately. We want data to be private. Big tech has done lots of good for society, but we’re wary of their motives. We’re often anti big tech and all the BS that goes with big tech.
Our purpose and values mean everything to us. You’ll see this in our team. It’s not just words on a page.
5. We’re local, agile, fast
Our team, premises & infra are all based in Australia and Germany, ensuring 100% data sovereignty for respective clients in Aus and EU. It also means we’re fast to repsond and our DCs have minimal latency.
The future is private.
Private AI enables innovation without compromise, empowering organisations to lead in a new era of intelligent, privacy-first technology.