Fine-Tuning

TL;DR Generic AI chatbots give generic answers. Fine-tuned AI models sound like your business, know your products, and follow your rules. For small businesses, this means 24/7 customer support that actually represents your company accurately. The business case: Cost to fine-tune: $500-3,000 one-time Monthly hosting: $200-500/month What it replaces: 2-4 hours/day of repetitive customer inquiries Typical ROI: Model pays for itself in 1-3 months Who it works for: Any business that answers the same types of questions repeatedly — service companies, professional firms, retail, healthcare, real estate. ...

TL;DR Fine-tuning takes a general-purpose AI model like Llama 3 and trains it further on your business data. The result is a model that responds in your company’s voice, knows your products, and follows your rules — not a generic chatbot. What you need: 200-500 question/answer pairs from your business A GPU with 24GB VRAM (RTX 3090, ~$800 used) or a MacBook with 32GB 2-6 hours of training time QLoRA + Hugging Face tools (all free and open source) What you get: ...