AI agents
A dedicated Mac mini for AI agents: always on, one customer per machine, in the EU. Your accounts and your keys stay on hardware nobody shares.
An agent that only runs while your laptop is open is not running. It stops when you close the lid, when the battery goes, when you get on a plane.
A Mac mini in a rack does not close. It keeps its session, its logins and its files between runs, and it is reachable from anywhere over SSH.
- It stays on
- The machine runs whether you are at it or not. An agent that watches an inbox, a queue or a schedule keeps watching.
- It is yours alone
- One customer per Mac, no virtual machine in between. Your accounts, your keys and whatever the agent reads stay on hardware nobody else touches.
- It is a real desktop
- macOS, not a container. An agent can drive the apps a person drives, with a screen to look at when you want to see what it did.
- It is in the EU
- Racked in Romania. Your data and every backup of it stay inside the European Union.
- One flat month
- No per-minute billing on a machine that runs all month by design, and no surprise when an agent has a busy week.
How to run them
- Mac mini clusters over Thunderbolt 42 to 8 Mac mini M4 or M6 in one rack, linked over Thunderbolt 4, with pooled unified memory for distributed inference, build farms and render work.
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- Why your AI agent should not run on your personal laptopAn AI agent that can run commands, read files and browse the web should not share a machine with your passwords, photos and work. What can go wrong, what 2026 showed, and where to run it instead.
- Local AI models on a Mac mini: what runs on each memory sizeWhich open models fit on each Mac mini memory size, how fast they run, and how to use a local model next to a cloud model in an AI agent. Updated for September 2026.
- AI agents in your company under the GDPR and the EU AI ActWhat the GDPR and the EU AI Act ask of a company that runs AI agents, what applies now and what comes in 2027, where your data goes, and how to design an agent that is easier to keep compliant.
Running on MacDuty
- How an AI QA agent runs on a single Mac mini1,792 broken tests, one Mac mini and an agent with 24 tools. How the PerfectApps QA agent repairs tests, triages failures and signs off releases, and why it runs on Apple silicon instead of a Linux VPS.
- Chat with your accounting app on WhatsAppHow FIAR360 turned WhatsApp into a full interface to its fiscal app. An AI agent on a dedicated Mac mini that runs local models for simple tasks, calls the app's functions directly and sends reports back in the chat.
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