Why not have a crack with a local LLM or two? You work in an industry with a lot of money involved.
Recently Apple have released beasties with up to 512GB of RAM. Apples have unified RAM (both for general use and GPU) so that 512GB looks a bit handy, and they have quite a lot of CPU cores too. They are of the order of £10,000. You should be able to run some pretty large models on that.
I've just blown a fair bit of money on network infra (yum: more switches that boot Linux for the control plane and shuffle packets at incredible speeds) at work so will need to wait a bit or perhaps persuade wifie that we really do need a really expensive Apple box at home.
The snag I have is getting over my mild distaste for Apple! I'm sure I'll manage it.