diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 073865607a..53aef46022 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -5,6 +5,9 @@ SerialPrograms/bin/
 discord_social_sdk_win/
 discord_partner_sdk.dll
 3rdPartyBinaries/discord_social_sdk_mac/
+3rdPartyBinaries/onnxruntime-osx-arm64-*/
+3rdPartyBinaries/onnxruntime-osx-x86_64-*/
+
 
 # macOS hidden system file
 .DS_Store
diff --git a/3rdPartyBinaries/onnxruntime-osx-arm64-1.23.2.tgz b/3rdPartyBinaries/onnxruntime-osx-arm64-1.23.2.tgz
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..a18526a0f5
Binary files /dev/null and b/3rdPartyBinaries/onnxruntime-osx-arm64-1.23.2.tgz differ
diff --git a/3rdPartyBinaries/onnxruntime-osx-x86_64-1.23.2.tgz b/3rdPartyBinaries/onnxruntime-osx-x86_64-1.23.2.tgz
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..529c66ca0a
Binary files /dev/null and b/3rdPartyBinaries/onnxruntime-osx-x86_64-1.23.2.tgz differ
diff --git a/SerialPrograms/CMakeLists.txt b/SerialPrograms/CMakeLists.txt
index 6761568dba..3ac93de4e5 100644
--- a/SerialPrograms/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/SerialPrograms/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -343,25 +343,26 @@ if (WIN32)
 else() # macOS and Linux
     find_package(PkgConfig REQUIRED)  # required to execute `pkg_search_module()` below
     if (APPLE)
-        # ==== Get ONNX Runtime paths ====
-        # First, try to see if there is an ONNX Runtime library built from source.
-        # Assume the onnxruntime repo, https://github.com/microsoft/onnxruntime is placed in the same folder as
-        # this Arduino-Source repo:
-        set(ONNXRUNTIME_ROOTDIR "${REPO_ROOT_DIR}../onnxruntime/")
-        set(ONNXRUNTIME_HEADER_DIR "${ONNXRUNTIME_ROOTDIR}include/onnxruntime/core/session/")
-        if(EXISTS "${ONNXRUNTIME_HEADER_DIR}")
-            # we have ONNX Runtime built from source
-            message("Use ONNX Runtime built from source at ${ONNXRUNTIME_ROOTDIR}")
-            target_include_directories(SerialProgramsLib PRIVATE ${ONNXRUNTIME_HEADER_DIR})
-            target_link_libraries(SerialProgramsLib PRIVATE ${ONNXRUNTIME_ROOTDIR}/build/MacOS/Release/libonnxruntime.dylib)
+        # prepare onnxruntime if needed
+        set(ONNXRUNTIME_VERSION "1.23.2")
+        set(ONNXRUNTIME_WORK_DIR "${REPO_ROOT_DIR}/3rdPartyBinaries")
+        if(${CMAKE_SYSTEM_PROCESSOR} MATCHES "arm")
+            set(ONNXRUNTIME_ARCH "arm64")
         else()
-            message("Built-from-source ONNX Runtime folder ${ONNXRUNTIME_ROOTDIR} does not exist.")
-            message("Use ONNX Runtime installed by Homebrew.")
-            pkg_search_module(ONNXRUNTIME REQUIRED libonnxruntime onnxruntime)
-            target_include_directories(SerialProgramsLib PRIVATE ${ONNXRUNTIME_INCLUDE_DIRS})
-            target_link_directories(SerialProgramsLib PUBLIC ${ONNXRUNTIME_LIBRARY_DIRS})
-            target_link_libraries(SerialProgramsLib PUBLIC ${ONNXRUNTIME_LINK_LIBRARIES})
+            set(ONNXRUNTIME_ARCH "x86_64")
         endif()
+        set(ONNXRUNTIME_LIB_DIR "${ONNXRUNTIME_WORK_DIR}/onnxruntime-osx-${ONNXRUNTIME_ARCH}-${ONNXRUNTIME_VERSION}")
+        set(ONNXRUNTIME_LIB_TAR "${ONNXRUNTIME_LIB_DIR}.tgz")
+        set(ONNXRUNTIME_DYLIB   "${ONNXRUNTIME_LIB_DIR}/lib/libonnxruntime.dylib")
+        if (NOT EXISTS "${ONNXRUNTIME_LIB_DIR}")
+            message(STATUS "ONNXRUNTIME not found, extracting from tgz...")
+            execute_process(
+                COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND} -E tar xf "${ONNXRUNTIME_LIB_TAR}"
+                WORKING_DIRECTORY "${ONNXRUNTIME_WORK_DIR}"
+            )
+        endif()
+        target_include_directories(SerialProgramsLib SYSTEM PRIVATE "${ONNXRUNTIME_LIB_DIR}/include")
+        target_link_libraries(SerialProgramsLib PRIVATE "${ONNXRUNTIME_DYLIB}")
     else() # Linux
         # ONNX RUNTIME LINUX CONFIG
         # NOTE: users can specify their own ONNX_ROOT_PATH (this is the base folder for ONNX) on the command line when evoking cmake.
@@ -505,7 +506,7 @@ else() # macOS and Linux
         target_compile_options(SerialProgramsLib PRIVATE -Wall -Wextra -Wpedantic -Werror -fno-strict-aliasing)
     endif()
 
-    IF(${CMAKE_SYSTEM_PROCESSOR} MATCHES "arm")
+    if(${CMAKE_SYSTEM_PROCESSOR} MATCHES "arm")
         # Arm CPU
         #   Run-time ISA dispatching
         target_compile_definitions(SerialProgramsLib PRIVATE PA_AutoDispatch_arm64_20_M1)