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How an open model helped my bakery catch a supplier error

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I bake bread at a small shop in Leipzig and I am not a programmer. My nephew helped me set up a local model on an old desktop in the back room so I could paste in invoices and compare them against our order history. Last month it flagged that our flour supplier had quietly raised the unit price on one line while keeping the total close to what I expected because they also shorted the weight. I would have missed it. I had been missing it, actually, for at least two months. I feel strongly about running the model on my own machine rather than sending every invoice to a company I do not know. It is slower, and it makes mistakes, but the mistakes are the kind I can see. When it misreads a number I can ask it to explain and it walks through the rows. I think a lot of the public conversation about AI is shaped by very large companies and their very large products. Smaller tools, the kind you can actually inspect, deserve more attention in policy. I would like to see the EU continue to protect the option to run open models, because that is what made this useful for me rather than another subscription I cannot afford. We are a seven-person bakery. The tool paid for itself the first time it caught that invoice.
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