Every platform dies eventually
Products get acquired, pivoted, priced up, or shut down. When that happens, the question that matters is brutally simple: can you walk away with everything, today, in a format another tool can read?
If your knowledge lives in a vendor's proprietary silo, the honest answer is usually no.
What BYOS actually gives you
- Your documents and indexes sit in a bucket you own — S3, Azure Blob, or GCS under your account.
- Export is not a feature request; it is `ls` on your own storage.
- Switching tools means pointing the next tool at the same bucket.
- A vendor outage or shutdown never holds your archive hostage.
Ownership as the default
ZSearch treats storage the way it treats models: yours to choose. Local disk by default, your own cloud bucket when you want sync or backup — the tool connects to your life, not the other way around.