johnthecto

Heya - one blue sea question.

Where are you on Vulkan support? Hard to find good stacks to use with all this great intel and non-rocm amd hardware. Might be a good angle too rather than chasing the usual Nvidia money train.

Like your ideas around legal and Healthcare. Both sectors where you've got interest and money. Another way might be to look at partnering with a service org who does transformation/modernization as a way to accelerate delivery. Maybe MSPs? They're always trying to figure out how to lean out.

An idea might be to try and get a vertical sooner rather than later. The only thing better than an interested lawyer would be a selection of curated templates and prompts designed by people in the industry for example. So you get orchestration and industry-specific aligned verts. Much easier sell than a general purpose platform. But then you're fighting with the other vertically integrated offerings.

Maybe there are other differentiators? If this is like bedrock for your network, maybe the angle is private models where you want them. Others are doing that though, so there's pretty active competition there as well.

The more technical and general the audience the more you're going to have to talk them out of just rolling openwebui themselves.

So this sounds like an application layer approach, maybe just shy of a replit or base44, with the twist that you can own the pipeline. While there's something to that, I think there are some further questions around differentiation that need to be answered. I think the biggest challenge is going to be the beachead: what client demographic has the cash to want to own the pipeline and not use SaaS, but doesn't have the staff on hand to do it?