A product company first
Loco’s centre of gravity is technology. Loco for Windows is the desktop application for working with compatible local AI models without assembling the entire technical stack by hand.
Education is the second pillar. Loco Learn is being built to help people make informed decisions about models, quantisation, hardware, runtimes, privacy and deployment.
Loco Pro brings unlimited autonomous agents, scheduled workflows, and distributed LAN inference to teams and power users.
Why local AI?
Cloud AI will remain important. Loco exists because there is also a growing role for AI that can run on a user’s computer, workstation or business infrastructure—especially when control, privacy, connectivity, model choice or integration matter.
Built for practical local AI
Loco focuses on the tools and information people need to choose models, understand hardware and run AI with greater control.
How Loco communicates
- Current capabilities are separated from future direction.
- Technical claims should be traceable to primary sources.
- Benchmarks must describe their hardware and methodology.
- Third-party results must be labelled as third-party.
- Comparisons should say when another tool is better suited to a use case.
- Local deployment is never presented as automatic security or compliance.
Company relationship
Loco is developed by Marais Software. The main company website is available at maraissoftware.co.za.