Can't we just use an LLM for this?
Kiran Kumar - Co-founder and CTO
Fair reflex - and half right. An LLM is genuinely good at answering questions.
Your problem is not the answering.
It is the state of the data the question lands on - an LLM reasons over whatever you hand it, and it cannot fix what it is handed.
That fix lives a layer down, in the foundation.
Getting your data into shape was never the model's job - it is ours.
So is this a wrapper on someone else's model?
Kiran Kumar - Co-founder and CTO
If it were, you should walk away - a wrapper is one API call anyone can copy.
A wrapper takes your input, passes it to a model, and returns the output.
That is not this architecture - the work happens in the data layer underneath, and that layer is ours.
The model is the replaceable part.
Swap it next year - the foundation stays yours.
What makes something a "foundation" and not a tool?
Kiran Kumar - Co-founder and CTO
A tool does one job when you open it.
A foundation works underneath every job.
Your finance system did that for your numbers - nothing did it for the contracts, filings, and reports your firm actually runs on.
The test is simple: take a tool away and tomorrow looks the same.
Take a foundation away and everything on top of it stops.
We already have a data warehouse. Why do we need this?
Nitin Gupta - Co-founder and CEO
You should ask - you paid for the warehouse, and it does its job.
Snowflake and Databricks solved 10 to 20% of enterprise data - the structured part.
SageX owns the 80 to 90% left behind: the contracts, filings, reports, and mail that never fit rows and tables.
Structured data got the data warehouse.
Unstructured data gets SageX. Nothing you run today moves or changes.
Does it replace what we have?
Nitin Gupta - Co-founder and CEO
No. And be suspicious of anything that says it does.
It sits beside the warehouse and covers what the warehouse never held.
Your pipelines, your reports, your team's work - untouched.
What changes is what a question can reach: all of your data, not just the half in tables.
Our data is a mess. Doesn't that break this?
Kiran Kumar - Co-founder and CTO
The mess is the point. Clean, tidy data would not need a foundation.
You do not clean anything first.
Connect a source as it is - one sample file is enough to set up the whole pipeline - and the system reads your data where it lives.
Scattered and messy is the normal starting state.
It is the state this was built for.
Couldn't we just build this ourselves?
Kiran Kumar - Co-founder and CTO
Honestly? You could. Teams have.
The going rate is $440K-$895K, 6-8 engineers, and 6-10 months before it answers its first real question.
So the real question is not can you.
It is whether that is what your best engineers should spend the year on.
With LLMs writing code now, wouldn't building be much cheaper?
Kiran Kumar - Co-founder and CTO
It does make the first version cheaper. We will not argue that.
The expensive part starts after the first version works: keeping it correct as volumes grow, formats shift, and models change.
That is a standing team, not a sprint.
Cheaper to start is not cheaper to keep alive.
Wouldn't building it ourselves at least be safer?
Kiran Kumar - Co-founder and CTO
It feels that way. It is usually the opposite.
Building does not make your data secure - it makes security entirely your problem to design, implement, audit, and maintain.
And every call your build makes to an outside model sends your content to a third party.
SageX runs inside your cloud, so that problem never opens.
Won't our own organization take months to approve this?
Nitin Gupta - Co-founder and CEO
You are thinking of the last tool you sponsored. Fair.
Those months come from reviews that fire when your data has to go somewhere else.
SageX deploys inside your cloud - we do not take your data, and we do not give it to anyone.
The review that eats the quarter has nothing to review.
What is left to approve is small. Days and not weeks and months.
Where do our files actually sit while it runs?
Nitin Gupta - Co-founder and CEO
On your storage, inside your network.
Nothing about the way you hold your files changes - the platform comes to the data, not the other way around.
And your own security team reviews the architecture before anything goes live.
You're the founders. Of course you'd say all this.
Nitin Gupta - Co-founder and CEO
Fair. We would.
So do not take our word for anything on this page.
Run it on your own files and judge the answers yourself - every answer shows you where it came from.
Nothing stands between you and finding out.