Use-case stack · small business

Legal-ish document triage (not advice)

Private Q&A on contracts or policies you already have — maps the text, does not replace a lawyer.

Prefer local/document-grounded tools. Output is a reading aid only.

Disclaimer: Not legal advice. For real contracts, use a licensed attorney in your jurisdiction.

Preferred / primary

Self-hosted Markets

Ollama/Open WebUI + your PDFs/10-Ks for private Q&A — research aid, not a broker.

In this stack: Private Q&A on documents you control.

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Hybrid Research

Desktop/self-host RAG chat over your documents with multiple model backends.

In this stack: Desktop/self-host RAG without building infra from zero.

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Web Research

Google’s source-grounded notebook for multi-doc Q&A and study guides.

In this stack: Grounded notebook UX for multi-PDF sets.

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Web Research

PDF/paper co-pilot for reading and explaining technical papers.

In this stack: When the doc is an academic PDF.

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Web LLM / chat

Anthropic models strong at long-context writing, code review, and careful analysis.

In this stack: Clause comparison when you paste text deliberately.

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Self-hosted LLM / chat

Simplest path to run open models locally (CLI + local API).

In this stack: Fully local models for sensitive files.

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Stacks are editorial starting points — swap tools when policy, budget, or hardware demands it.