AI setup guides + practical calculators

Set up local AI tools, automate smarter, and sanity-check the numbers.

Useful Atlas focuses on hands-on AI and dev-tool guides, plus browser calculators for API costs, local hardware fit, project estimates, and everyday planning decisions.

Start with local AI

Start by task

Start with the setup or calculation in front of you

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Open local AI guides

Set up local AI

Start with hardware fit, model choice, Ollama, LM Studio, Open WebUI, privacy, and small-team local AI decisions.

Open automation guides

Plan an AI automation stack

Compare API cost, agent builders, self-hosting tradeoffs, workflow privacy, and the tool choices behind an automation path.

Run AI cost estimate

Estimate AI API spend

Model token volume, request frequency, current provider prices, caching assumptions, and monthly usage before an automation becomes expensive.

Check local AI fit

Check local AI hardware

See whether your RAM, VRAM, model size, quantization, and workload are realistic for Ollama, LM Studio, Open WebUI, or similar tools.

Browse practical tools

Convert units or percentages

Use fast browser calculators for unit conversions, percent changes, discounts, markups, and quick planning math.

Open quote checker

Compare a quote

Check price, scope, deposit, warranty, cleanup, and change-order risk before you sign.

Build a cost plan

Plan monthly costs

Turn household bills, one-time expenses, income, and savings targets into a reusable monthly view.

Estimate reserve

Estimate home maintenance

Set a reserve for routine upkeep, known repair work, emergency cushion, and risk drivers.

Run solar estimate

Plan solar

Compare production, battery impact, grid imports, exports, and rough yearly savings.

Open moving hub

Move or store items

Review mover pricing, storage add-ons, hidden fees, and budget impact before booking.

Review fee guides

Understand broker fees

Compare broker compensation, commission labels, and the questions to ask before choosing help.

Featured tools

Calculators for AI costs, hardware fit, and practical estimates

All calculators

AI and automation

Can I Run This AI Model? Local AI Checker

Check whether a computer can run a specific local AI model from GPU VRAM, RAM, model size, quantization, KV cache, context length, and active sessions.

Open tool AI and automation

AI API Cost Calculator

Estimate AI API spend from input tokens, output tokens, request volume, token prices, cached-input discounts, and monthly usage assumptions.

Open tool Everyday utility

Unit Conversion Calculator

Convert length, area, volume, weight, and temperature between common US and metric units with copyable results.

Open tool Everyday math

Percentage Calculator

Calculate percent of a number, percentage change, percent difference, discounts, markups, and reverse percentages without spreadsheet setup.

Open tool Quote

Contractor Quote Checker

Compare contractor and home-service quotes by total cost, missing scope details, warranty, insurance, cleanup, and change-order risk.

Open tool Home planning

Home Maintenance Cost Planner

Estimate a monthly home maintenance reserve, annual routine cost range, known repair set-aside, emergency cushion, and top risk drivers.

Open tool

Methodology and trust

Use estimates as a planning starting point

Useful Atlas tools are built to help you compare scenarios, prepare better questions, and avoid obvious cost surprises.

How we estimate costs

Browser-only calculators

Interactive tools run in the browser and do not require an account.

Planning estimates, not quotes

Results help compare scenarios and prepare better questions before hiring or buying.

Reviewed before publishing

Public guides are checked for structure, links, tool fit, and reader usefulness.

Curated topic clusters

AI and tool hubs first, cost guides still available

Start with local AI and automation paths, then move into home, moving, solar, and fee guides when a planning decision needs a calculator or cost check.

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