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Popular tool to chat with PDFs and other documents, giving summaries and cited answers, with a free daily tier and no-signup start.
Platform to build AI customer-service agents trained on your data that answer 24/7, take real actions and hand off to humans.
AI-powered knowledge base software for building internal and external docs, help centers, SOPs, and API references with analytics.
Managed context/RAG API that indexes, parses and retrieves documents, images, audio and video for developers building AI agents.
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- ✦Chat with PDFs, Word, PowerPoint and text files
- ✦Summaries with cited sources
- ✦Multi-file chats via folders
- ✦Any-language upload and chat
- ✦Extra tools: AI writer, detector, flashcards, slides
- ✦No-signup quick start
- ✦AI agents trained on website/docs with auto-retrain
- ✦AI Actions (Stripe billing, Calendly booking, API calls)
- ✦Multi-channel embed (site, Slack, Notion and more)
- ✦Human handoff with context
- ✦Analytics on deflection and satisfaction
- ✦Multiple LLMs selectable per task
- ✦Open-source AI knowledge base
- ✦AI-native research agent
- ✦Up to 70% reduction in document-digging time
- ✦REST API and SDKs for custom integrations
- ✦Image Grounding (embedding context from images & diagrams)
- ✦Deep Research (generating insights from thousands of documents)
- ✦Connectors for enterprise data integration
- ✦Visual-first Retrieval and Diagram Intelligence
- ✦Knowledge Graphs
- ✦Support for OSS & On-prem deployments
- ✦Knowledge base authoring portal
- ✦Customizable customer-facing docs site
- ✦Eddy AI assistant and AI chatbot
- ✦Analytics and custom workflows
- ✦Import from PDF/Word, export to PDF
- ✦SSO, SCIM, and API support
- ✦Hybrid vector, keyword and summary indexing
- ✦Native connectors to Google Drive, Notion, Slack and others
- ✦Multimodal ingestion of text, PDF, image, audio and video
- ✦Agentic OCR document parsing with structured extraction
- ✦Custom entity extraction via plain-language instructions
- ✦MCP server for permissioned agent access
- ✦Multi-tenant data partitioning
- →Understand research papers
- →Study and homework help
- →Review contracts and reports
- →Translate and summarize documents
- →Automate customer support
- →Book meetings and complete tasks in chat
- →Capture and qualify leads
- →Keep answers current via auto-retrain
- →Accelerating research for knowledge workers
- →Getting answers from research papers, reports, and company documents
- →Generating insights from large volumes of documents (1000s)
- →Performing search over complex diagrams, schematics, and datasheets
- →Building custom integrations with enterprise data
- →Deploying AI knowledge solutions in regulated industries or at massive scale
- →Proof-of-concept projects for individual developers
- →Building external product documentation
- →Running internal knowledge bases
- →Publishing SOPs and user manuals
- →Creating API documentation
- →Adding accurate retrieval/context to an AI agent or assistant
- →Building AI search over a company's Drive/Notion/Slack knowledge base
- →Extracting structured entities and tables from documents at scale