How is this different from a RAG project we could build ourselves?

A functioning retrieval prototype is achievable in weeks. What takes years is everything that makes it defensible: classification rules maintained by the business rather than by engineers, audience scoping that survives reorganization, prompt and skill version history, interaction logging that satisfies an auditor, cost attribution, and a re-indexing story that does not require a rebuild each time a model changes.

Oxcyon has built data governance software since 2000, and Centralpoint runs in production at 65 enterprise accounts across government, healthcare and commercial sectors. 451 Research describes the result as an AI governance platform built on an existing data governance substrate rather than assembled from scratch for generative AI — and notes this is not a property newer entrants can easily retrofit.