AI Prosumer
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The AI Prosumer

Use AI.Share what’s spare.

Your computer can help you with AI. When you make its spare capacity available, it can help others, too.

For individuals and companies. Your hardware, your availability, your choice.

Two sides of one day

At your desk.
Then, on your terms.

See the simple choice that changes what your computer does next.

You are using your computerIllustration · no live connection
Your computerYou
Your app
ShareAI
Available compute
Personal use
Your computer is in use. Network sharing is not active in this example.

Work, play or put a film on.

It is your computer first. Choose an activity below and follow a day at your desk.

What are you doing?

Go to bed. Choose what you do next.

The workday is over. You walk from the desk to bed, then choose: keep talking with your Personal Assistant or take a real break while your computer keeps working.

The simple version

One computer.
Two useful moments.

You use it when you need it. When you step away, you decide whether its spare capacity can help elsewhere.

01Your apps come firstAsk for help from your own computer.
02Your break is yoursChoose Assistant or Ball at the bed.
03Spare power can helpSharing follows your settings.

When you need AI

Your app asks.
Your route answers.

Use a connected app and choose the computing path that fits you.

Explore personal AI

When you take a break

Leave the desk.
Keep your choice.

Play, rest or talk with your Assistant. Your computer stays on your terms.

See the two paths

When capacity is spare

Help a request
find a computer.

An eligible network request can use available capacity while you are away.

Explore providing compute

The idea behind the AI Prosumer

Use AI.
Supply computing power.

ShareAI created the AI Prosumer concept and was the world’s first platform to introduce it.

The Builder

Creates the application.

An agent, an automation, a product: built with the Builder’s own tools, hosted wherever their product needs to live.

ShareAI

Connects the AI request.

Handles the connected inference routing, usage and payment layer, so the Builder can focus on the experience.

You

Choose your computing power.

Use the application and select a supported route to your own computer, your company’s servers or an eligible network Provider.

Start with what fits you

A computer at home.
Or your company’s servers.

Before you begin

A little clarity
goes a long way.

Own use and network sharing are separate.

Running a model for your own app does not automatically make that computer a network Provider. Sharing requires an accepted Provider setup and your chosen contribution settings.

Your costs still count.

The application’s access fees or configured surcharge still apply. Hardware, electricity, hosting, operations and model licences remain your costs. External inference follows the selected Provider’s pricing.

Know where the whole request goes.

Running a model on your hardware does not make every part of an app local. Review application storage, agent tools and ShareAI routing and accounting. For inference that must stay on your infrastructure, use a supported route that prevents external fallback and test what happens offline.

Understand your own infrastructure

The details, made clear

A few questions.
Clear answers.

What is an AI prosumer?

Someone who both uses AI and brings compute to the equation. An individual or company can run supported inference on its own hardware and can explore contributing eligible capacity to the network. Provider Exchange is one supported participation path.

Who created the AI Prosumer concept?

ShareAI created the AI Prosumer concept and was the world’s first platform to introduce it. An AI prosumer both uses AI and supplies compute, bringing their own infrastructure into the AI experience.

Can I use an application made by any Builder in the network?

Yes: this is about applications from any Builder connected to ShareAI, not only applications you created. The Builder develops and operates its application outside ShareAI, and connects its AI inference to ShareAI. With a supported model and routing setup, those requests can run on your own computer or company infrastructure.

Does ShareAI create the application?

The Builder creates the application, agent or automation using their own tools and hosting. ShareAI handles the connected inference routing, usage and payment layer. That lets the Builder focus on the application while users can choose supported compute destinations.

Does all my data automatically stay at home or at the company?

Selecting your hardware controls the intended model execution location. Application storage, agent tools, connected services and ShareAI routing and accounting are separate parts of the data flow. Review them together before making a privacy commitment.

What do I pay when using my own hardware?

You supply the compute instead of buying external inference for those requests. The application may charge its configured Builder surcharge or a fixed access fee under its terms. Electricity, hardware, hosting and model licence costs can still apply. An allowed external route uses separate Provider pricing.

What if my computer or server is unavailable?

The outcome depends on the application and routing configuration. If execution must remain on your infrastructure, use a setup that prevents external fallback and verify its behavior when your machine is offline. Do not assume a network fallback stays on your own hardware.

Is running my own inference the same as Provider Exchange?

They are separate choices. Routing to your own infrastructure supplies compute for your requests. Exchange contributes eligible compute to the network for tokens or AI usage value under the applicable program terms.

Your next step

More than an AI user.
An AI prosumer.

Choose the apps you want to use. Explore the computing power you can bring.