About

Kranky.ai is the mini-PC-and-local-LLM property of the KRANKY io brand. Its job is to answer one question honestly: which mini PC should you buy to run AI at home?

Who writes this

Hi. I've been hands-on with computers since age 7 — 37 years of lifelong tinkering. My day job is AI solutions leadership at a large global enterprise. I have a family, a dry wit, and strong opinions about hype. The name "Kranky" is a tribute to my late cat, who supervised countless late-night builds.

Independence & disclosure

At launch (Phase 1), every machine reviewed on this site was purchased retail by the author. Affiliate links to Amazon and vendor stores support the hardware budget and are always disclosed. No sponsored content. No vendor editorial control — ever.

Benchmark trust

Our numbers come from hwbench, which is open source. You can run it yourself. You can audit our results. You can disagree with the methodology — but you can't claim you don't know what it is.

Stay curious. Stay Kranky.