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AI strategy consulting
A clear-eyed read on where AI helps your business and where it doesn't.
Focused work · Fit check first
AI strategy · Local agents · Systems
Intelligence,
installed on your terms.
Apollo Iridium builds private AI systems for people who need AI to stay useful, understandable, and under their control: strategy, local agent setup, and documentation on hardware you own.
Founding-client local AI setup available · You approve what matters · Clear notes before we conclude
WHAT APOLLO IRIDIUM IS
Private AI systems, installed with judgment.
Apollo Iridium is David Hagen's private AI systems practice: AI strategy consulting, local AI agent setup, and selected products built around ownership, documentation, and human approval. The work is intentionally narrow: useful systems that can be explained, handed off, and operated by the people who own them.
AI IS BECOMING THE OPERATING LAYER
“Every company in the world today needs to have an OpenClaw strategy, an agentic system strategy.”
Quote reported from NVIDIA GTC 2026. Apollo Iridium is not affiliated with or endorsed by NVIDIA.
That line from NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang captures the shift Apollo Iridium is built around.
AI is moving from isolated tools into persistent systems that can read, write, search, click, code, summarize, and automate. But autonomy only becomes useful when an organization knows what agents are allowed to do, what data stays private, when humans approve the output, and how the system stays understandable over time.
For large enterprises, that becomes a platform strategy. For small organizations, it needs to become something more practical: a clear, owned, documented way to use AI agents without surrendering control.
Apollo Iridium helps build that layer — private-first setup, local and cloud-aware workflows, documentation, and safe operating boundaries.
SERVICES
What Apollo Iridium does
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Local AI agent setup
A private AI agent running on hardware you own, offered at a limited founding-client rate while Apollo Iridium builds early proof and case studies.
$999 founding-client setup · Hardware purchased by you
WORKING PRINCIPLES
How the work holds up
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Local-first where possible
Private data and working context stay close to the person using the system unless there is a clear reason to move them.
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You approve what matters
Automation can speed up drafts, routing, and review. External action still deserves a deliberate human handoff.
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Client-owned stays client-owned
Accounts, credentials, and hardware remain your property. Apollo Iridium builds on what you own. It does not take them over.
PROOF / FIELD NOTES
What it looks like when the setup lands
The point is not an impressive demo. It is a working setup that makes AI useful in someone's actual life and work.
“David helped me turn AI from something I was curious about into something I could actually use every day. He set up a working system, showed me how to use it, and made it practical for my actual life and work.”
Corey Wennmacher
Local AI agent setup client
“I am completely blown away by what I can do. David is incredibly knowledgeable, down-to-earth, and explains things in a way that is easy to understand, even for non-IT people like me.”
Jedediah McClure
Local AI agent setup client
Live on the App Store
Apollo Accountability
Accountability between the big conversations.
An iPhone app for weekly goals, daily check-ins, partner nudges, and review with one real accountability partner, not a public social feed.
Goals live on the device by default, with a lightweight relay for partner sync. No accounts, no email signup, no ads, and no tracking.
Start with a fit check.
A short intake about whether the work is a fit and what should happen next. Every project ends with notes you can use after I leave.