Deploy with the AI starter kit

The Self-hosted AI Starter Kit is an open, docker compose template that bootstraps a fully featured Local AI and Low Code development environment.

Curated by n8n, it combines the self-hosted n8n platform with a list of compatible AI products and components to get you started building self-hosted AI workflows.

What’s included

✅ Self-hosted n8n: Low-code platform with over 400 integrations and advanced AI components.

✅ Ollama: Cross-platform LLM platform to install and run the latest local LLMs.

✅ Qdrant: Open-source, high performance vector store with a comprehensive API.

✅ PostgreSQL: The workhorse of the Data Engineering world, handles large amounts of data safely.

What you can build

⭐️ AI Agents{ data-preview} that can schedule appointments

⭐️ Summaries of company PDFs without leaking data

⭐️ Smarter Slackbots for company communications and IT-ops

⭐️ Private, low-cost analyses of financial documents

Get the kit

Head to the GitHub repository to clone the repo and get started!

For testing only

n8n designed this kit to help you get started with self-hosted AI workflows. While it’s not fully optimized for production environments, it combines robust components that work well together for proof-of-concept projects. Customize it to meet your needs. Secure and harden it before using in production.

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