Why We Chose Self-Hosted AI Over Cloud for Business Data

Posted by the RagLeap team — building RagLeap, a private-server AI business platform When we started building RagLeap, the easiest path was obvious: spin up an API, connect to OpenAI, store everything in a managed cloud database, and ship fast. We didn't do that. Here's why — and what we learned after talking to hundreds of businesses about where their data actually lives. The Problem Nobody Talks About Most AI business tools work like this: You upload your documents, customer data, order histor