On my own time and dime, I came up with a way to glue together a thin-layer open-source LLM and open-source Meilisearch. After initial testing, it works exceedingly well for ecommerce / retail / online shopping, for search, discovery, product recommendation and deep intent recognition.

Now I have to figure out how to turn this into a monetized product, in the face of legal threats from my employer.

(I happen to work for one of the entrenched-retrograde "IBMs" of the information retrieval industry.)