Getting Started with Ollama and CrewAI
A Beginner-Friendly Guide to Building AI Agents on Your Own Machine Have you ever wished for an intelligent assistant to help you plan trips, write blog posts, or do research? With tools like Ollama and CrewAI, you can now build your own AI-powered team on your laptop. And the best part? You don’t need to be an AI expert to get started. In this guide, I’ll break things down in plain English and walk you through: 1) What Ollama is 2) What CrewAI does 3) How to set them up together 4) How to build your intelligent agents What is Ollama? Ollama is a simple tool that lets you run large language models (LLMs) — like ChatGPT-style models — locally on your machine. No internet, no cloud, and no privacy concerns. Simple installation and setup Access to various open-source models Local execution (no internet required after setup) Command-line interface for interaction

A Beginner-Friendly Guide to Building AI Agents on Your Own Machine
Have you ever wished for an intelligent assistant to help you plan trips, write blog posts, or do research? With tools like Ollama and CrewAI, you can now build your own AI-powered team on your laptop.
And the best part?
You don’t need to be an AI expert to get started.
In this guide, I’ll break things down in plain English and walk you through:
1) What Ollama is
2) What CrewAI does
3) How to set them up together
4) How to build your intelligent agents
What is Ollama?
Ollama is a simple tool that lets you run large language models (LLMs) — like ChatGPT-style models — locally on your machine.
No internet, no cloud, and no privacy concerns.
- Simple installation and setup
- Access to various open-source models
- Local execution (no internet required after setup)
- Command-line interface for interaction