The financial services industry is evolving rapidly, and customers demand exceptional service and personalized experiences. Artificial Intelligence (AI) bridges the gap between traditional financial services and modern customer expectations.

How can businesses maintain a competitive edge and ensure operational efficiency? The answer lies in optimizing software operations with Artificial Intelligence (AI). By leveraging AI, companies can automate processes, enhance decision-making, and significantly improve their software operations. Are you curious about how AI can benefit your business? This guide aims to provide a comprehensive roadmap for integrating AI into your software operations, addressing common concerns and questions from IT managers, software engineers, and business leaders.

In this article, we'll explore how we developed an Aspire component that spins up an Ollama container and downloads a Large Language Model, ready for use. If you're new to any of these technologies, you can continue reading, otherwise feel free to skip to the technical walkthrough. As a quick bit of background, we recently released an Aspire component that brings a free, lightweight Raygun app into your local development environment to help debug exceptions. We then subsequently enhanced this with AI Error Resolution capabilities which runs entirely on your local machine.