15k Budget for LLM

Our company has decided to budget 15k USD next 4 months and then another 20k for the next year for AI.

We have Copilot and not even the AI version.

I use Claude max and I enjoy the results and everything I have received from it.

Do to the nature of the business and of course sales data I am considering creating a LLM

Just curios what hardware, specs and AI I should study and launch with. Qwen 3.8?

Goal is to have an agent our senior staff can reach out to for purchasing questions, sales data, Truck Location data (the LLM will connect to our ERP and pull data)

Tracking warehouse performance etc.

Tracking credit issues, sales analysis. I will be using it for plenty. Thinking of making an Iron Man Jarvis for my team of 30 staff.

I know we went from having local servers to the cloud. Now it seems like we are all going back to hosting locally and I would love to be pointed in the right direction to learn and create this.