Case studies · Self-Hosted Document QA

The honest answer: Self-Hosted Document QA is a pre-built starter kit from the Wishdeal Factory catalog. There are no live paying customers running this product as of today.

The Factory ships brand, landing page, audio pitch, financial model, and outreach kit so you can start a new venture with a multi-week head start. The first paying customer is yours to find.

If you want guaranteed installation by a team that has shipped this before, that's the operator partnership. They run it with you.

We won't fabricate testimonials, dollar figures, or "Company X saved 40%" claims. The category is too easy to fake and we'd rather lose a buyer who needed proof than build credit on rented numbers. Our honest page explains the philosophy.

What we expect to be true

Based on the financial model and skeptic memos, here's what an operator running Self-Hosted Document QA could plausibly achieve in their first year. These are Fermi estimates, not promises.

Year-1 outcomes (Fermi estimate)

Year-1 ARR mid-case: $180,000
Year-1 ARR high-case: $520,000
Probability of meaningful success: 13%
Year-1 entrepreneur take-home (after GTM costs): $-9,870

If you close 50 companies at $300/mo that's $180k ARR - but PrivateGPT is free and Azure has HIPAA BAAs, so your realistic path is 18 months of grinding to find buyers who've already tried the free options and failed.

What good looks like

If an operator buys this dossier and ships Self-Hosted Document QA into their network, here's what we'd consider a real win:

Real-win checkpoints

5 paid pilots in the first 30 days
20 paying customers and $2K MRR by day 60
50 customers or pivot decision by day 90
A list of objection patterns the dossier didn't anticipate (we update everyone's dossier)
One referral that closes (the cheapest customer is usually the second or third one)

Falling short of these is normal. Most ideas don't become big businesses - the dossier compresses 40 hours of strategic work, but the customer conversations are still your job.

If you want guaranteed installation

The operator partnership tier is the path where we install and run the launch with you. Phase A scope confirmation is fixed at $2,500 and includes ICP validation calls, brand reaffirmation, and a Phase B+C quote.

This is the right tier for buyers who want fewer unknowns. The dossier alone is the right tier for buyers who already have distribution and just need the strategic compression.

Ready to read the dossier?

The full Self-Hosted Document QA schema unlocks for $5. Refundable in 30 days.

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