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Kyle Castor on value creation in basis points

Kyle Castor, Founder & Principal Architect  •  61 seconds  •  Captions  •  AI-rendered presenter from the studio portrait

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00:00To private equity sponsors and operating partners here in Las Vegas: your post-acquisition value creation shouldn't be trapped in forty-page slide decks.

00:11At DataOngoing, we measure our work strictly in basis points of EBITDA. Two hours of executive input returns hundreds of automated hours, proven in our 100x time ledger.

00:24First, a 48 to 72-hour AI technology diligence read to price technical debt before wiring capital. Second, compressing your 21-day multi-entity close down to 3. Third, automated floor-to-ledger data ingestion straight into NetSuite.

00:44We ship working code in 14-day sprints. If it does not run in production, the milestone is not billed. Visit DataOngoing.ai to schedule a private advisory session.

  1. How we work →
  2. Read the results ledger →
  3. The productized offers →
  4. The Basis-Point Sprint →

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Comparison

Self-Hosted Local LLM vs Metered Cloud LLM APIs: zero token tax and 100% ERP data sovereignty

Metered cloud LLM APIs charge recurring token tolls on every multi-page PDF and SuiteQL prompt while transmitting raw General Ledger rows, customer pricing, and vendor banking details outside your firewall. DataOngoing deploys a self-hosted open-weight Local LLM stack (vLLM or Ollama) inside an isolated internal container network (internal: true) in 14 days ($18,500 flat fee), delivering $0.00 per-token inference, 78%–92% 3-year TCO savings (modeled), and 100% on-premise or private-VPC data residency.
DimensionMetered Cloud LLM APIs & SaaS WrappersDataOngoing Self-Hosted Local LLM
Marginal cost per token / pageRecurring per-1M-token + per-page SaaS markups$0.00 / token and $0.00 / page on your own hardware
36-month TCO (25k docs/mo + 40 users)$162,000–$342,000 over 36 months (modeled)$26,000–$47,300 total ($18,500 setup + compute, 78%–92% savings, modeled)
ERP & GL data residencyPrompts and GL rows traverse external third-party APIs100% inside your Private VPC or on-premise rack (internal: true)
Model weight ownershipOpaque provider checkpoints subject to deprecationPinned open-weight checkpoints (Qwen2.5-VL, Llama-3.3, Qwen2.5-Coder)
Audit & CISO postureRequires third-party DPA exceptions and subprocessor reviewsZero external subprocessors; air-gapped telemetry disabled

Frequently asked questions

How fast is the payback on a self-hosted Local LLM vs. cloud APIs?

For a mid-market distributor or manufacturer processing 15,000–25,000 OCR pages per month and running daily SuiteQL analytics across 30–50 users, the $18,500 setup sprint typically reaches break-even in 4 to 6 months against metered cloud API and per-page SaaS bills (modeled).

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