Run AI on Your Own Laptop For Free with Ollama | How to use AI on the files you can't upload

Run an AI model locally on your own laptop with Ollama, free, and ask questions of documents you would never upload to ChatGPT. Full setup click by click, then a real 10 page insurance policy read live on the machine. Kirti Chaturvedi shows the whole thing on screen. Client contracts, your own notes, anything with somebody else's information in it never leaves your laptop. No subscription, no cloud, no account. Recorded live on 10 September 2026. TOOL USED Ollama CHAPTERS 0:00 What this is and why you'd want it 1:35 What Prompts2Products is 2:22 Kirti joins 4:25 Why run AI locally, cost and privacy 5:15 Cloud AI vs local AI, explained 6:33 Installing Ollama 7:35 Terminal commands and model sizes 9:15 The Ollama interface 9:50 First prompt, explain it like I'm 2 10:55 Loading a real 10 page insurance policy 11:35 Summarising a private document 12:00 What laptop you actually need 13:40 Asking the document specific questions 14:40 A real scenario, does a delay cover the hotel 16:25 What a local model can't do 17:15 Local vs Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini 18:15 When to use which 19:25 Discord, newsletter, and what to do tonight WHAT YOU'LL BE ABLE TO DO AFTER THIS Install Ollama and pull your first model Work out which model your laptop can actually handle Load your own documents and ask real questions of them Know which jobs to still give Claude or ChatGPT instead FREE DISCORD Where people go when the download does something weird. Free, nothing to buy:   / discord   WRITTEN WALKTHROUGHS Screenshots on every step, free: prompts2products.substack.com Website: prompts2products.com ABOUT Prompts2Products Live runs every two weeks. Free, thirty minutes, and there is never anything to buy. It's for people who don't come from a coding background but want to build real things with AI. Hosted by Aisha Yaseen.