The considerations that are actually local, rather than the ones every vendor page repeats.
Client code raises the question nobody wants to ask late: what leaves the building. Worth settling in the contract before a tool is chosen, not after.
Every mainstream AI tool sends your prompt to a model hosted overseas, because there is no New Zealand frontier model to send it to. That is not a reason to avoid them, but it is worth deciding deliberately rather than discovering later. See who is actually building AI here.
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