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Good luck folks! I'm glad there are projects trying to solve enterprise search. I guess the main problem is the "private" aspect, if I've understood your goals correctly. Since most SaaS products lock down the private data unless you pay enterprise fees for compliance tooling. For instance, if you want to ingest data from private Slack channels or Notion groups, you have to get the users in those groups to add your bot to them, otherwise there's no way of your service getting access to the data. It's possible, just a bad UX for users. That said, built-in search for most SaaS products built after 2015 is generally quite good (e.g. Slack has an internal Learning to Rank service for a while now, which makes their search excellent: https://slack.engineering/search-at-slack/ ), so you'd be solving for companies like Webex and Confluence where their internal search is not great. At companies like Google they have internal search across products, which is the ideal end state, but have the benefit that they own the source code for most of their internal products.