Insight

Insight is an experimental, local-first research assistant for journalists. Build collections of PDFs, ask questions in plain language, and get answers that cite their sources. You can also share a collection directly with colleagues, without uploading it to a central service.

Your documents, your choices

Your PDFs, extracted text, and search index are stored on your computer. Sharing a collection gives its recipients their own copies. When you use chat, your configured AI provider receives the conversation and the document excerpts retrieved to answer your questions—not access to your document library. You can choose a hosted provider or a model server running on your own machine.

Explore the guide

• Getting Started: install Insight and configure a model.
• Collections: import documents and share an investigation.
• Chat: ask questions and check the answers.
• Architecture: understand how Insight works and why it is built this way.

Insight is a research project, not a production-ready records management or security solution.