Ask Sage

Ask Sage positions itself as a specialized provider of a Secure & Extensible Multi-modal Generative AI platform, targeting both government and commercial sectors. The company was established by Nic Chaillan, an entrepreneur with a history of founding 13 companies and who previously held the role of Chief Software Officer for the U.S. Air Force and Space Force, bringing substantial public sector and software expertise to the venture.

The core of Ask Sage's business is to provide secure access to a variety of large language models (LLMs). The platform integrates prominent technologies such as Azure OpenAI's GPT-3.5 and GPT-4, alongside models from Mistral, Meta (LLaMA 3), Anthropic (Claude 3), Cohere, and Google (Gemini). It also supports various open-source LLMs, offering flexibility to its clientele. This extensive model support allows for a wide array of applications, including software development, cybersecurity threat analysis, compliance checks, contract management, and data analysis.

Ask Sage operates on a multi-modal framework, incorporating OpenAI's Whisper on Azure Gov for speech-to-text transcription of audio and video files, and DALL-E 3 for image generation. This enhances its utility beyond text-based tasks. A key differentiator is its approach to data security, which is critical for its government and enterprise clients. The platform employs a model-agnostic data ingest and training system, ensuring that proprietary client data is not absorbed into the core AI models. This architecture facilitates data-centric security, allowing for user-specific data labeling and controlled information sharing within teams, thereby mitigating data spillage and supporting zero-trust security principles.

The company's revenue model is subscription-based. It offers a multi-tenant solution with pricing starting at $30 per user per month. For larger organizations, an enterprise plan is available at $90 per month, which includes 2 million Ask Sage tokens distributed among users. Furthermore, Ask Sage provides deployment options for dedicated or air-gapped environments, catering to clients with stringent security requirements. The platform's ability to connect to custom data sources, APIs, and data lakes allows for real-time data retrieval and analysis, aiming to automate labor-intensive processes and free up client teams for more strategic work.

Keywords: Generative AI, Secure AI, Multi-modal AI, Government Technology, Enterprise Software, LLM Platform, Data Security, Azure OpenAI, Nic Chaillan, AI Subscription