[harryf]

Make sure you have an on-premise option for this type of customer. I've worked at two software companies in Europe with tangentially similar products related to document analysis. On premise is a key requirement.

Even though it's 2024, banks, financial institutions like insurance companies etc. tend to be _very_ cautious with valuable documents involving customers. There are also regional regulations that prevent things like patient data being shared with _any_ 3rd parties. Even one of the big 4 oil companies that I've dealt with as prospective customer - very strict rules requiring on premise solutions.

The good news is many are using things like Kubernetes and OpenShift internally, so it should be possible to port what you do on AWS to on-premise.

[throw03172019]

On-premise will be a lot more difficult than just launching a few pods in Kubernetes. These AI tools (LLMs / vision models) will require some high powered gpus as well.

[intelVISA]

On-prem is theater if the OS isn't libre.