Installation

See Get started to request an evaluation or a licence. After a short coordination call, we email you the CrestBid package and a signed licence key as part of onboarding. Everything installs from that package — nothing is fetched from a third-party host, and the software never contacts a licence server.

Before you start

Check System requirements first. We recommend running a 27B LLM, which runs comfortably on a machine with 48 GB of VRAM — smaller models work too, with some compromise on speed and accuracy. You also need 60 GB of free disk.

1. Extract the package

Unzip the package we sent you into a folder with at least 60 GB free. The installer lives inside it, alongside the application files it needs.

2. Run the installer from that folder

Windows

Open PowerShell as Administrator (Start › type PowerShell › right-click › Run as administrator), change into the extracted folder, and run:

.\install.ps1 -LicenseKey YOUR-LICENCE-KEY

The first run installs Docker and WSL2, which may require one restart. After rebooting, open PowerShell as Administrator again and re-run the same command — the installer remembers where it was and continues.

macOS and Linux

Open a terminal in the extracted folder and run:

./install.sh --local-install --license-key YOUR-LICENCE-KEY

On Linux the installer also sets up Docker and the NVIDIA container runtime, so you may be asked for your sudo password. Macs have no NVIDIA GPU, so CrestBid runs against a model provider you configure on first run — see System requirements.

What it does

1. Checks your operating system, free disk space, and GPU drivers
2. Installs Docker (and WSL2 on Windows) if they are missing
3. Starts the CrestBid containers and downloads the local AI models
4. Activates your licence and creates the local data volumes
5. Opens your browser at http://localhost:3000 when it has finished

Expect 15–25 minutes end to end — most of that is the one-time model download.

If something goes wrong

See Troubleshooting, or write to sales@mobiprise.com with the output of the installer.