Cite as: Real Problem AI problem “Why is "search across my company's docs" still bad in 2026?”. Opportunity score 8.0 out of 10 (severity 9, AI feasibility 8, market signal 9, competition gap 6). Category Others. Trend LLM. Source signal: r/Notion, r/sysadmin.. Canonical URL: https://www.realproblem.ai/archive/why-is-search-across-my-company-s-docs-still-bad-in-2026.
Why is "search across my company's docs" still bad in 2026?
Notion/Confluence/Drive/Slack search returns garbage; people DM coworkers instead.
Who has it: Knowledge workers in 50-500 person companies.
Evidence
Small company owners describe enterprise search tools as priced far beyond their budget when all they want is decent search across their own docs.
Our summary of a complaint that recurs in public posts, not a quote. Nobody submitted it to Real Problem AI.
Seen in: r/Notion, r/sysadmin.Why it is archived
Trimmed to 100-cap (lowest opportunity_score)
Scoring breakdown
Existing players
- Glean
- Coveo
- Dashworks
- Onyx (open source)
What they are missing
SMB-priced enterprise search with sane permissions and good answer quality.
Stack hint
#O3 · Canonical URL: https://www.realproblem.ai/archive/why-is-search-across-my-company-s-docs-still-bad-in-2026