Why Chat-with-Docs Breaks in Real Companies: An Engineering Look at Onyx
Based on the onyx.guru page and the Onyx open-source repository reviewed on April 29, 2026.
Most internal AI projects begin with a reasonable demo: connect a folder of documents, add retrieval, ask a
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This is exactly why I think private AI search needs to be treated as infrastructure, not just a chatbot feature. I recently came across this Onyx-focused page, and it frames the problem well: https://onyx.guru/