CubCloud AI

11/02/2026

Sunday night in November, on a ranch outside Dillon. The calves shipped last week. The kitchen table is buried: the estate plan, the grazing lease renewals, the water rights file, five years of cattle sales.

The daughter is taking over from her dad, third generation on the place. She wants AI to help her sort the pile. Pull out the lease terms. Flag what shifts when the operation passes to her. Write up the questions for their attorney.

Paste all of it into a public chatbot and the family’s balance sheet goes with it. So does the succession plan, and what they’d bid on the neighbor’s lease. It lands on servers out of state, under terms nobody at that table read.

Run the same work on our servers in Missoula and it stays theirs. The files get processed in Montana and stored in Montana. They never touch a server outside the state.

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10/28/2026

Thank you to everyone that celebrated our ribbon cutting with us last week! Year and Site #2 are off to a great start.

10/25/2026

4:30 on a Friday in Kalispell. Opposing counsel just dropped 800 pages of discovery in a custody case, and the hearing is Tuesday.

(This firm is made up. The problem isn't.)

Denise has been the firm's paralegal for 19 years. She already knows how her weekend goes.

The attorneys know AI could get through that stack before dinner. They also know what happens if she pastes it into the ChatGPT or Claude account somebody at the firm already pays for. A mother's text messages, a father's bank records, a kid's counseling notes, all on a server in another state. On the personal plans, both companies train on those chats unless someone found the setting and turned it off.

Both sell business versions that don't. Most three-attorney firms aren't on one, and the ones that are still keep client files under someone else's roof, on someone else's terms.

ABA Formal Opinion 512 says a lawyer needs informed client consent before putting client information into a self-learning AI tool. That's a hard conversation to have with a mom in the middle of a custody fight.

Here's how we'd build it.

On-premises: we build the server, put it in the back office next to the copier, and the files never leave the building.

On CubCloud: a private model on our GPUs in Missoula, or on machines reserved for the firm alone. The files never leave Montana, and the people running the hardware are a couple hours down 93.

None of it trains on the firm's files. None of it shares them with anybody.

Then we drive up and spend an afternoon at Denise's desk, teaching her to run it on her own caseload.

Denise gets her Friday back. When a client asks where their file went, the answer fits in one breath: Montana, and no further.

Swap the law firm for a clinic, a CPA, a ranch, a county office, or a tribal program. Different files, same stakes, same answer.

Your roof or ours, and both are in Montana. That's Sovereign Sunday: one business a week, one reason private AI fits.

Sitting on data that can't leave the building? Come see our shop in Missoula, or we'll come to you.

Know someone who is? Send them to [email protected].

10/22/2026

Today at 7151 Kestrel Drive in Missoula. Ribbon cutting at 4 PM, then Trunk or Treat from 5 to 7. Bring the kids, bring a costume, and come see where Montana's AI runs. 🎃🐻

10/20/2026

Welcome to CubCloud AI, Allan Sheldon! 🚀

We're excited to have Allan join the team as our new Business Account Executive!
As CubCloud continues to grow, so does our commitment to helping Montana businesses take advantage of AI without sacrificing privacy, security, or control of their data.

Allan will be helping us connect with businesses, build relationships, and turn real-world challenges into practical AI solutions.

We're building the infrastructure and technology for a Montana-based ecosystem where local businesses can innovate, compete, and grow on their own terms.

Glad to have you on board, Allan. There's a lot to build, and we're just getting started! 🐻

By Montana, For Montana.

10/20/2026

This Thursday!

Join CubCloud AI and the Missoula Area Chamber of Commerce for a ribbon-cutting ceremony celebrating the opening of CubCloud's new Research Campus in on Thurs., Oct. 22nd from 4-5 p.m.

Following the ceremony, families are invited to stick around for free trunk-or-treat festivities from 5-7 p.m!

For questions, contact Joshua Rhines at [email protected].

10/19/2026

Last Wednesday we took Missoula to Bozeman for the Montana AI Hackathon at The Baxter. People showed up with a laptop and a problem and built AI tools together. The amount of entrepreneurial spirit and innovation in Montanans is inspiring.

Thank you to Speridian Technologies, KOA, and the Montana High Tech Business Alliance for putting it on with us.

10/15/2026

Today marks 1 year since we officially started. One year of CubCloud AI.

A year ago we started with one founder and one belief: Montana's AI future should be owned by Montana.

Today, 25+ of us are building it. Enterprise GPUs in service, two Missoula sites, a podcast studio, 20+ partners, and 35 events across the state.

Local compute. Open source. Sovereign. Built by Montanans, for Montana and beyond.

Thank you to our team, our partners, and everyone who bet on us early.

Year two is bigger, better, and more sovereign.

10/08/2026

Missoula to Bozeman for OpTeC at MSU. Quantum hardware, lasers, photonics, all being built in Montana. Good day to be a neighbor. cubcloud.ai

10/05/2026

Welcome to the team, Will Petruski! Will joins CubCloud as our Chief Growth Officer. He'll be out across Montana serving our customers, building partnerships, and guiding the next stage of growth for the company. Let's move some Montana mountains together this fall.