CLUSTER ANSWERS-DOCUMENTS-HOSTED-3 · 23 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2025-06-16
Self-hosted grounded research Q&A tools
This cluster consists of self-hostable AI research applications that answer questions and generate summaries strictly from user-uploaded documents, typically with citations and evidence provenance. Entries before the index start appeared in several months, with the largest counts in June 2025 and January 2026, followed by November 2025, and single entries in December 2025 and March 2026. The top traction signal belongs to sf-askora with 4 stars, while the next two listed products have 0 stars.
Entry timeline
ENTRY TIMELINE
Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.
Members by activity
Activity signals, not revenue.
Build origin · 12 ai-built · 8 unlabelled
Operator · 6 hobby · 2 indie · 8 open source · 4 unlabelled
Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 20 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.
- 01sf-askora4★1 moliveSelf-hosted Q&A application that answers questions about code and documents with verifiable evidence.
- 02grounded1★11 days—Self-hosted platform that lets teams build knowledge bases from uploaded files and websites and deploy AI agents that answer with cited sources.
- 03paperless-ask1★2 days—hobbySelf-hosted web app that answers plain-language questions about a personal document library with cited sources from a local AI model.
- 04context-forge-680★1 moliveai-builtKnowledge platform that generates grounded, cited answers drawn only from a user's own workspace content, combining research, spaced repetition, and interview preparation tools.
- 05We-Have-AI-At-Home0★14 days—hobbyOffline, self-hosted AI assistant for Raspberry Pi that answers questions with cited sources and never fabricates information, using deterministic retrieval and computation.
- 06myAiProject0★7 days—ai-builtindieSelf-hosted AI research tool that answers questions exclusively from user-provided sources and company knowledge bases.
- 07argus0★1 molivehobbyResearch platform that answers questions from a user’s own document corpus, keeps evidence provenance, and declines to answer when evidence is insufficient.
- 08ApebookLM0★1 molivehobbySelf-hosted AI research workbench that ingests documents, web pages, and media to answer questions with citations and generate reports, quizzes, and presentations.
- 09AI-TOOL0★8 mostale—ai-builtopen sourceSelf-hosted AI research assistant that grounds its answers exclusively in documents and sources uploaded by a user or company.
- 10InsightsLM0★9 mostale—ai-builtopen sourceSelf-hosted AI research tool that answers questions and generates summaries grounded exclusively in user-uploaded source documents.
- 11notebooklm0★9 mostale—ai-builtopen sourceSelf-hostable AI research application that answers questions and summarizes content by grounding responses only in documents a user uploads.
- 12insights-LM-im20★9 mostale—ai-builtopen sourceSelf-hostable AI research application that answers questions and summarizes content by grounding responses only in documents a user uploads.
- 13notbook0★9 mostale—ai-builtopen sourceSelf-hosted web application that generates AI answers and summaries grounded exclusively in user-uploaded documents for private research.
- 14insights-lm-public0★10 mostale—ai-builtopen sourceSelf-hosted research tool that answers questions using only user-provided documents, creating a searchable window into an organization's knowledge base.
- 15my_test_LM0★10 mostale—ai-builtopen sourceSelf-hosted AI research tool that answers questions and summarizes content strictly from user-provided source documents for a knowledge base.
- 16ibrahim0★11 mostale—ai-builtindieOpen-source self-hosted AI research tool that generates insights from user-provided sources.
- 17lm-0★11 mostale—ai-builtSelf-hosted AI research tool that answers questions using only user-supplied documents, grounding its responses for knowledge base analysis.
- 18minor-project-frontend0★11 mostale—hobbyA self-hostable AI research tool that answers questions using only user-provided sources.
- 19mybooklm0★1 yrabandoned—ai-builthobbyOpen-source self-hosted AI research tool that answers questions based solely on user-provided documents.
- 20insights-lm0★1 yrabandoned—open sourceSelf-hosted AI research tool that answers questions from user-provided documents and sources for knowledge management.
Ranked by traction, highest first, and paged 20 at a time — this is a window on the cluster, never the whole of it. Ties are broken by a stable id so a product cannot appear on two pages or fall between them. Browse every cluster.