Glean and build-your-own approaches to enterprise AI search, compared for Singapore organisations.
dgm is an independent osFoundry integration partner — not affiliated with osFoundry’s maker (OS LLC), and dgm has no completed client integrations yet.
Enterprise AI search — answering questions over your own content — is a crowded space. The main approaches for Singapore businesses are managed products and build-your-own retrieval.
Managed search products
Tools like Glean index your content and answer questions with citations. They are polished and quick to deploy, but vendor-managed and less flexible on models and data path.
Build-your-own retrieval
Composing retrieval (RAG) on a model-agnostic platform gives you control over which model answers, where data is stored, and how retrieval works — more effort, more control. Better for sensitive or unusual needs.
The Singapore residency lens
For sensitive content, where the index and answers are processed matters. osFoundry’s managed cloud pins data to the US, EU or Japan — it does not currently offer a Singapore managed region (its nearest managed region is Japan). For data that must stay in Singapore, the honest path is self-hosting osFoundry (BYO Cloud) inside a Singapore cloud region such as AWS Asia Pacific (Singapore) ap-southeast-1, Microsoft Azure Southeast Asia (Singapore) or Google Cloud asia-southeast1 (Singapore), or running models locally on-device. Pricing for both tools changes and varies by plan and usage — always check the official pricing page for current figures.
Where dgm fits
dgm is an independent integration partner that helps Singapore businesses adopt osFoundry — scoping a first use case, handling the build, and connecting AI to the systems you already run. dgm is independent of osFoundry’s maker (OS LLC) and has no completed client integrations yet, so everything described here is a service offered, not a past result. If you want to scope a practical first project, dgm can help you map it out.