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Building a Privacy-First Hybrid AI Briefing Tool with Foundry Local and Azure OpenAI

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Feb 26, 2026

The Challenge: Balancing Speed, Privacy, and Quality in Client Work

Introduction Management consultants face a critical challenge: they need instant AI-powered insights from sensitive client documents, but traditional cloud-only AI solutions create unacceptable dat...
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Feb 26, 2026

I also developed an application based on Foundry Local, and it actually works quite well in practice. It will become an efficiency tool in the future. I hope Foundry Local will become more and more powerful!

https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9PML0QP8MS7V