Minimal AI Build Shop 24-26

Welcome in! This is a tiny build-to-order shop on a quiet street.

It's 2024. Generative AI just blew up, and the shop's inbox is filling up with requests.
"We want our internal docs read by an AI we actually own." "Can it learn my art style?" "Honestly, I just want someone to talk to at night."
Everyone wants something a little different.

Read the email, wrestle with the budget, pick the parts, and build it. Nail it, and you'll get a thank-you note. Miss, and the reply might sting a little.

Every season brings new AI models and wobbly part prices.
Three years, 2024 to 2026. What kind of shop will yours become?

What's inside

• A cozy little pixel-art shop sim — about 5 hours per playthrough

• Hunt for the setup that makes the AI run: model size, GPU memory and speed, power, cooling. Swap parts and check with the benchmark. The performance metrics follow how real AI models actually run

• Don’t worry if the jargon is new to you. The game does the math, and the block diagram shows the result: width is memory, height is performance. Reaching the dotted line is the target

• 50+ order emails, and past customers who come back for an upgrade

• Go cheap with used parts or play it safe with new ones — it's your shop

• Very lightweight: runs fine on older laptops

• Every company, product, and AI model is fictional