Cited, not paraphrased
Every sentence links to the passage, page and file it came from. Click through and read the original in context.
Knowledge engine · cited by default
Every answer,
with its source.
MerKnow connects your papers, contracts, tickets and notes into one searchable sea — then answers with the exact passage it came from.
Private by design · Self-host available · SOC 2 in progress
2.4Mdocuments indexed
180msmedian answer
100%answers with citations
0training on your data
Why MerKnow
Built for people who get blamed for being wrong.
A confident answer without a source is a liability. MerKnow refuses to give one.
A graph, not a folder
Concepts, people and documents are linked. Ask about a clause and see every contract that shares it.
Private by default
Your corpus is never used for training. Run it in our cloud, your VPC, or fully self-hosted.
Use cases
One engine, four kinds of reading.
Research
Literature reviews that quote the paper, not the abstract. Track how a finding travels across 400 PDFs.
Legal & compliance
Clause-level search across contracts. Diff a new ruling against your policy library before it bites.
Engineering
Runbooks, incidents and ADRs in one place. Ask why a service is the way it is and get the original thread.
Education
Course packs that answer with page numbers, so students can go and check — the point of citations.
How it works
Three steps from pile to proof.
- 01
Drop in your corpus
PDFs, docs, tickets, markdown, email. MerKnow parses structure — headings, tables, footnotes — not just text.
- 02
Ask in plain language
Retrieval runs over passages, not chunks of noise. The answer is assembled from the smallest quotable unit.
- 03
Check the receipt
Each answer ships with sources, confidence and the passages it skipped. Disagree? Open the source and argue with it.
Trust
An answer you can audit is worth ten you can't.
MerKnow is built around a simple constraint: if it can't be sourced, it doesn't get said. That makes it slower to impress and much harder to fool.
Self-hosted optionNo training on your dataExport everything
“We stopped arguing about whose summary was right. Now we open the same paragraph together.”
Pricing
Priced by corpus, not by seat.
Team
$24/member
200k pages shared corpus, SSO, audit log, Slack.
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