0 %
of working time is lost to searching for knowledge
Employees gather information instead of working with it. With four employees, one is effectively working as a search engine.
Industry studies on knowledge work, incl. Atlassian
The company memory
Your company knows everything. You just could never ask it.
Wissano makes maintenance plans, reports, contracts and hard-won experience queryable through a chat. Every answer backed by your own documents, every line on your own server.
Self-hosted · Private by design · No mandatory cloud
Sources
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100 %
Your infrastructure, your data
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File formats, from PDF to Excel
Local + API
Ollama, OpenAI-compatible or Anthropic
0 languages
German and English, switchable
The starting point
The knowledge exists. It just cannot be reached.
It sits in folders on the server, in filing cabinets and in the heads of the people who have been around for twenty years. Three numbers from daily business:
1 in 6
people worldwide will be aged 60 or older by 2030
Population ageing is global. Organizations that preserve process knowledge early are better prepared when experienced employees retire or change roles.
World Health Organization
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answers come out of a folder full of PDF files
Storage is not knowledge management. Documents nobody finds and nobody can ask do not help in daily business.
The reason Wissano exists
Scenarios from daily business
Knowledge stays. Even when people leave.
Your company has built its knowledge over years, some of it over generations: strategies, procedures, tricks, decisions and the reasons behind them. Too often it depends on individual people. Three situations where Wissano makes the difference:
Scenario 01 · When experience retires
Saying goodbye after 34 years. Without saying goodbye to the knowledge.
Your most experienced man retires, a successor has not been found, a handover never happens. No company wants to live through that scenario. With Wissano his knowledge stays in the house: the maintenance tricks, the supplier agreements, the reasons behind decisions. Captured once, retrievable forever.
Scenario 02 · Onboarding without a predecessor
The new colleague learns from the best source: everyone before her.
One account, the accounting knowledge space, done. The new colleague asks Wissano instead of interrupting someone three times a day, and she does not pick up just any knowledge but exactly the knowledge of your company. Even when the person who could have shown her is long gone.
Scenario 03 · Answers when it matters
Friday, 2:30 pm. Line 2 is down. The one colleague who knows it is on vacation.
Last maintenance, the person in charge, the matching troubleshooting guide: Wissano answers in seconds and backs every statement with the exact passage from your own documents. The knowledge is there, even when the person who wrote it down is not.
Wissano is your company's memory. One that never retires.
Passing knowledge on
The instructor who never runs out of patience.
New employees and apprentices learn exactly what your company knows. You set up targeted training topics, and Wissano answers every question about them with a citation, at their own pace, around the clock. Even when the experienced colleague has no time to spare.
Machine safety first
The essential steps and rules before anyone goes near the press.
Maintenance step by step
Intervals, contacts and procedure, straight from the maintenance manual.
Bookkeeping and receipts
How your company records, charges and settles accounts properly.
Handling complaints
The path from the customer report to a cleanly documented resolution.
For every department
Whether at the machine, in bookkeeping or in administration: Wissano passes on your knowledge in every part of the business, to every new colleague.
How the apprentice learns
Ask until it sticks. Without holding anyone up.
The apprentice works through the topic at their own pace and asks Wissano as often as they like. Every answer comes with a citation from your own documents. So they learn exactly your procedures on your machines, not something random from the internet.
Wissano at a glance
One system that takes in your knowledge, understands it and answers.
Eight building blocks, one memory.
Document library
Upload, done. Wissano extracts the text and automatically prepares it for hybrid search. Scanned PDFs are read by the built-in OCR, fully offline.
Folder sources
Entire folders become knowledge sources: Wissano imports your Obsidian notes, for example, and keeps them in sync. New files arrive, changed ones are re-read, deleted ones disappear.
Hybrid search
Finds the maintenance manual even when someone asks: who repairs the machine? Matches are highlighted and one click jumps straight to the passage in the document.
Chat with proof
Answers come exclusively from your documents. Every statement carries a clickable citation to the original passage, and only genuine citations appear as sources.
Knowledge spaces
Onboarding, engineering, management: everyone only sees shared spaces, in search and chat as well.
Free choice of model
You decide which model processes your knowledge: locally on your hardware or through the cloud provider of your choice. Well-known services come preconfigured.
Cost control
The chat shows token usage live and per month. An optional budget per provider turns the quota into a visible bar before costs surprise you.
Self-operation
Installed on your server in minutes. User roles, encrypted key storage, full backup as a single file, full control.
The path of a question
From question to cited answer
Your question goes to Wissano. The system searches all your files, gathers the matching passages and forms an answer that cites every statement.
Your files
PDF
DOCX
XLSX
Wissano searches and connects
Wissano
Waiting for your question
1maintenance-manual.pdf 2equipment-log.docx 3maintenance-plan.xlsxQuestion and cited answer
How often is the HP-200 serviced?
Every three months at a fixed interval [1]
1maintenance-manual.pdfA closer look
Ask instead of search. Prove instead of believe.
Every view below is a real, unedited capture of Wissano, available in a light and a dark theme.
Real product view · Chat · Every statement with a clickable citation, sources below
Try it yourself
See citations live
Pick a question, and the document lights up exactly the passages the answer relies on. Wissano's core promise, right at your fingertips.
1maintenance-manual.pdf
The HP-200 hydraulic press is serviced every three months at a fixed maintenance interval. Responsibility lies with the technical team on extension 4711. For faults outside the interval, notify the shift lead first. Spare parts are ordered through the store in hall 2, with a delivery time of two working days.
01 · Library
The library that takes in your knowledge
Drop documents in, choose the space, done. Wissano extracts the text, splits it into sections and automatically prepares everything for hybrid search.
- PDF, Word, Excel, CSV, text and Markdown, up to 50 MB per file
- Status per document, from uploaded to ready
- Every document visibly belongs to its knowledge space
Real product view · Documents with space and status
02 · Hybrid search
The search that understands meaning
Classic search only finds literal matches. Wissano combines full-text search with semantic search and therefore understands differently phrased questions too.
- Matches are highlighted, one click shows the whole section
- Works from the very first document, no keyword maintenance
- Only shows spaces that are shared with you
Who stands in for the managing director during vacation?
deputy-policy.pdf Section 2
… during absence the deputy role is taken by the commercial director, signing authority lies with …
org-chart-2026.xlsx Section 1
… management, deputies and signature rules per site …
Hybrid search · 2 results · full text and meaning combined
03 · Knowledge spaces
Spaces that mirror your org chart
Not all knowledge is meant for everyone. Every document lives in exactly one space, and you decide who is a member.
- Rights apply everywhere: library, search and chat only show what is shared
- Roles for administrators, editors and readers
- Confidential information stays protected in search and answers as well
Real product view · Access by department
Data handling and operations
Your knowledge belongs to you. It stays that way.
No cloud.
No compromises.
Wissano runs on your server, in your network, under your control. With local AI models the system even works completely without an internet connection.
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Self-hosted, GDPR-compliant
Installed via Docker or directly, database and documents stay in-house.
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Local AI models possible
With Ollama, Wissano answers on your own hardware and no data leaves the network.
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Encrypted key storage
API keys of external providers are stored encrypted with AES-256-GCM.
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Fine-grained access
Roles and knowledge spaces control who sees what, in search and chat as well.
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Developed in Germany
For organizations of every size, deployable worldwide and GDPR-compliant.
The finish
Neatly filed. Properly cited.
Your company memory stays as orderly as a good filing cabinet: every document sits visibly in its register, with space and status. So it stays clear where every answer comes from, without knowledge disappearing into people’s heads or forgotten folders.
maintenance-manual.pdf
Technical
Ready
leave-policy.docx
HR
Ready
emergency-plan.pdf
Technical
Ready
org-chart-2026.xlsx
Management
Ready
Cited from your files
Clearly priced
One annual license. Everything included.
Every tier includes the full feature set; the only difference is the number of user accounts. You test for 30 days free of charge with all features, no payment details required.
Team
99 € per month
Up to 10 user accounts
- All features, no exceptions
- Self-hosted on your hardware
- Updates during the license term
- Support by e-mail
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Business
249 € per month
Up to 50 user accounts
- All features, no exceptions
- Self-hosted on your hardware
- Updates during the license term
- Support by e-mail
Unlimited
499 € per month
Unlimited user accounts
- All features, no exceptions
- Self-hosted on your hardware
- Updates during the license term
- Priority support
All prices net, plus VAT where applicable. Monthly billing via SEPA direct debit, yearly billing via invoice; billing details are agreed by email. If a license runs out, your data is fully preserved: reading, search and backup keep working.
The way there
Operational in four steps.
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Install
Start Wissano via Docker or directly on your server. The assistant creates the admin account.
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Connect a model
Add a local model via Ollama or your own API, test the connection, done.
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Upload knowledge
Create spaces, invite your team, drop in documents. The rest runs automatically.
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Ask questions
From now on your company knowledge answers, backed by sources.
Before the decision
What decision makers ask before rolling it out.
No, not unless you want it to. Wissano runs entirely on your infrastructure. With local models via Ollama, even the AI processing stays in-house. Only if you deliberately choose an external API provider do requests go there, and even then only the relevant text passages.
Wissano answers exclusively from your documents and backs every statement with a clickable source. You can verify any answer at the original passage with one click. If the system finds no suitable basis, it says so openly instead of making something up.
A normal server is enough for search and knowledge preparation. For fluent chat answers with local models a GPU is recommended, common models already run well on cards with 8 GB of memory. Alternatively, start with an external API and switch to local models later without rebuilding anything.
Installation takes minutes with Docker. After that it depends on your documents: upload, organize spaces, invite the team. Many companies ask their knowledge the first questions on the very same day.
PDF, Word (docx), Excel (xlsx), CSV, text and Markdown, up to 50 MB per file. Scanned PDFs without a text layer are read by the built-in OCR, which runs fully offline. Content is automatically extracted, split into sections and prepared for search.
Yes. With folder sources, Wissano imports entire directories as knowledge sources, for example an Obsidian vault or a file share on the server. Content is kept in sync manually or on a schedule: new files are added, changed ones reprocessed, deleted ones removed. Your original files remain untouched.
Yes, that is what knowledge spaces are for. Every document lives in exactly one space, and you decide the members. The rights apply everywhere: whoever has no access to a space will not see its content in the library, in search or in chat.
Wissano is an annual license: 990 euro (Team, up to 10 user accounts), 2,490 euro (Business, up to 50) or 4,990 euro (Unlimited), each net per year with the full feature set. You test for 30 days free of charge, no payment details required. See the pricing section for details.
The next step
Release your knowledge.
To your own people.
A written email inquiry, no strings attached and focused on your case.
Or write directly to: info@wissano.de