Great, but I would have to run this in >my< private cloud. no way any business is going to upload its docs into a third-party cloud, no matter what the small print says.
You've gotta do the slack-style growth strategy. Give users a free tier and market directly to end users. Let your users ignore their own company policy for their own convenience. Eventually they will end up dependent enough on it that their organizations will be forced to accept it.
I get what you’re saying but the reality is many industries just can’t do this. I have strict data residency and sovereignty requirements - there are potential criminal charges. It’s a non-starter for lots of industries
I also will not upload a proprietary document to this service. But mine and many other organizations do upload proprietary documents into third-party clouds (e.g., Azure, Google).
You might not dump your internal documentation or confidential files to it, but I can see something like this being very useful if you can chuck a user manual for a product into it and ask common-sense questions about the product. So many parts these days come with a multi-hundred-page, questionably-written manual that technically does contain all the required information but buries it in waffle.
Or for legal contracts ... though no-one is going to go there with a commercial product unless they can indemnify themselves somehow against erroneous answers.
There are various degrees to self hosting: for nice outputs, you need OpenAIs APIs to generate at least the answers. There are alternatives, but not as good.
If you are interested in this, feel free to reach out to me and I can help you with setting this up.