Why KwaFlux is 100% local — and what that decision is worth

Every shipped KwaFlux AI pass — AI Video Enhancer, repair, cutout, AI Video Beauty, AI Audio Denoise, Video Converter, file repair — runs on your machine. Nothing uploads to finish a preview or an export. That is a product contract, not a missing server. The spreadsheet version of the same decision is local vs cloud.

• Your footage is not ours to hold. Family faces, NDA plates, and internal recordings should not need a privacy-policy rewrite to stay put. Architecture does not get a new version the way a policy page does
• Grading is a loop. Upload–queue–download makes the first result "good enough." A 1s/3s/5s preview after download is free and needs no account, so you can actually iterate
• You already bought a discrete GPU. A per-minute cloud bill rents it back to you every month. Desktop plans are on pricing: $29.99 / $49.99 / $79.99 / $199.99 perpetual. Volume can rise without a meter

• A short compliance sentence: the footage was not uploaded
• Predictable time: no vendor queue. Processing itself is local. Sign-in still uses the network because export and convert need an active paid plan
• A visible software bill. We do not claim an unlimited file-size SKU — your disk and GPU are the cap

The cost is honest: you need a DirectX 12 discrete GPU (NVIDIA, AMD, Intel Arc; RTX recommended). Integrated graphics will not run this class of model. A remote datacenter card can win a single-frame sprint. Two shorts a year on a thin laptop still belong in a cloud queue — that ledger is already written. For people who keep making pictures and care where the master sat overnight, local is the answer we can keep.