Locul offers private AI bots for firms, running on open models in your country or on your servers. Per-seat pricing with a 7-day free trial.
Researched and fact-checked by Bartu Cavusoglu · Updated October 26, 2026
Locul is a private AI product for firms that want help with repeating work but need to keep client data under their own control. It is made by Ertiqah LLC, a US company registered in Delaware, and is aimed at firms that answer to regulators, clients and auditors.
Instead of a blank chat window, Locul offers bots built for specific jobs, such as sorting a support inbox, chasing overdue invoices or checking client files for missing paperwork. The company describes it as as easy to use as ChatGPT, but running on top open models in the customer's own country.
Each bot is assigned a recurring task and a schedule. In the examples on the site, Inbox Triage runs every weekday at 07:00, Month-End Report runs on the second working day of the month, and Deadline Watch checks renewals every weekday morning. Schedules can be run now, edited or paused, and new ones are added by telling the bot in chat.
Bots draw on a team memory that holds things like complaints procedures, house style and client preferences, and they save their outputs to a Files area. The sample conversations show drafts waiting for approval before emails are sent or posts go live.
The model behind the bots can run in three places: your current AI service, open models hosted by a local provider, or open models on your own hardware.
The bot library is the core of the product. The site lists bots for customer support, marketing, billing and finance, compliance and business development. Examples include Supplier Bills, which checks bills against orders and contracts, and Policy Checker, which answers staff questions from internal policies and cites the section.
Control features matter for regulated firms. Every question, answer and data access is logged on the customer's side, so the firm can show who used AI on what. Seat management lets an administrator add or remove people from a dashboard.
Locul also connects to other AI tools. Through a desktop MCP server and a cloud connector, apps such as Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and VS Code can reach the Locul brain, with OAuth sign-in on the cloud connector.
Locul is a private AI product that gives firms ready-made bots for repeating work such as inbox triage, invoice chasing and month-end reports. It runs on open models in the firm's own country, on its own servers or a private cloud. It is made by Ertiqah LLC.
Locul is priced per seat per month in EUR or GBP, billed monthly or yearly, and never per prompt. The configurator showed €19 per seat per month for the Your current AI setup at 10 seats with a 15% volume discount. Prices exclude VAT, and the AI model bill is separate.
Yes. Every plan starts with a 7-day free trial. A card is added at checkout, nothing is charged that day, and the first charge is on day 8. Cancelling before then costs nothing.
Locul states that in its in-country and own-server setups nothing reaches OpenAI or any other AI company. In the Your current AI setup, you keep using your existing ChatGPT, Claude or Codex plan, so that provider's terms apply.
There are three setups: your current AI with a private team memory, open models from a local provider hosted in your country, or open models on your own servers. Providers named include Scaleway, OVHcloud and Infomaniak, and own-server runtimes include Ollama and vLLM.
No. According to Locul, recent Apple Silicon Macs (M1 or later) can run small open models on each person's machine. A shared GPU server only pays off when many people need a larger model at the same time.
Self-serve plans start at 3 seats and go up to 100, and seats can be changed any time from the dashboard. For more than 100 seats, SSO or an air-gapped install, Locul asks you to email the company, and it replies within one working day.
Locul is aimed at firms that answer to regulators, clients and auditors and want AI for routine work without sending data to outside AI companies. The sample bots lean toward accounting, advisory and similar professional services.