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title: Self-hosted AI Starter Kit
description: Use n8n's curated self-hosted AI Starter Kit to get a list of AI elements to quickly start building AI workflows.
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# Self-hosted 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](https://github.com/n8n-io), 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**](/hosting/index.md): Low-code platform with over 400 integrations and advanced AI components.

✅ [**Ollama**](https://ollama.com/): Cross-platform LLM platform to install and run the latest local LLMs.

✅ [**Qdrant**](https://qdrant.tech/): Open-source, high performance vector store with a comprehensive API.

✅ [**PostgreSQL**](https://www.postgresql.org/): The workhorse of the Data Engineering world, handles large amounts of data safely.

## What you can build

⭐️ [AI Agents](/glossary.md#ai-agent){ 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

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Head to [the GitHub repository](https://github.com/n8n-io/self-hosted-ai-starter-kit) to clone the repo and get started!
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/// note | 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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