# AI assistant on your own documents

> AI assistant on your own documents at ellul.ai: £5,995, a fixed price agreed in writing before work starts, never charged by the hour. A team that loses time hunting for answers in its own files.

- Price: £5,995 (one-off)
- Time: 2 to 3 weeks
- Page: https://ellul.ai/services/ai-knowledge-assistant

## What is included
- Answers staff questions from your own files, with sources
- Connected to your shared drive, SharePoint or Google Drive
- Each person sees only the folders they are allowed to
- AI model usage on your own account, at cost

## What other providers charge
Other providers publish a median of £6,000 across 3 comparable prices (middle half £4,312.50 to £18,000). Every price with its source: https://ellul.ai/services/ai-knowledge-assistant/readings.json

## How many people are asking for it
127 posts on Reddit asked to hire someone for AI assistant on your own documents between November 2025 and November 2026, 65 of them in the last 90 days, most on r/forhire, r/freelance_forhire, r/LocalLLaMA.

## Paid separately, at cost
- AI model usage, billed to your own account at cost
- Any cloud hosting the assistant runs on, billed to your account

## What the buyer supplies
- Admin access to your shared drive, SharePoint or Google Drive
- An account in your name with the AI model provider
- A list of who should see which folders

## What the price does not cover
- Answers can still be wrong; each one shows its sources so staff can check
- It sees only the files and folders it is connected to
- Tidying or rewriting your documents is not included

## Rules that apply
- UK GDPR Article 28 says processing by a processor must be governed by a contract or other legal act, and the processor may process personal data only on the controller's documented instructions. Source: [UK GDPR, Article 28 (Processor)](https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2016/679/article/28)

## A cheaper way to do it
- For files kept in Google Drive, Google says Gemini in Google Drive can answer questions and summarise across files and folders, and is included in Google Workspace plans at no added cost. Source: [Google Workspace: AI in Google Drive](https://workspace.google.com/products/drive/ai)

Get a written fixed quote: https://ellul.ai/services/ai-knowledge-assistant#quote