Nouswise
Nouswise is a personalized search engine designed to provide insights based on your trusted personal information. The tool allows you to upload and explore vari...
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What is Nouswise?
Nouswise is an agentic AI search engine and answer engine that provides trusted insights from trustworthy content, specifically designed for enterprises, academics, and professionals. The tool instantly becomes an expert in your information (books, papers, and other sources) in all forms including OCR, tables, graphs, images, and texts. It delivers verifiable answers that are textual and visual from sources, with fine-grained line-by-line visual and textual citations that allow users to verify information directly.
Key features include Visual Recap for listening and learning while engaging with sources, Focus and Ground capability to focus on specific sources, Knowledge Base creation through storing notes called
Nouswise pricing
Pricing model: Free
Basic: Free plan with unlimited search, unlimited notes, unlimited uploads, 30Mb file size (monthly), 5 Files to Focus (monthly), 10 questions per day limit, save/curate/organize responses. Essential: $7.99/month billed annually (27% off) or $9.99/month monthly (Coming Soon) with unlimited queries, 100Mb file size, 10 Files to Focus, all AI models. Professional: $24.99/month billed annually (27% off) or $29.99/month monthly (Coming Soon) with unlimited Files to Focus, multimodal search (images, texts, tables), Library access, Scholar access, API access, 28-day free trial. Enterprise: Contact sales for pricing, includes everything in Pro plus advanced security, centralized billing, managed client, and API.
Nouswise pros
- Provides trusted insights from trustworthy content for enterprises
- Delivers verifiable answers with line-by-line visual and textual citations
- Instantly becomes expert in your books, papers, and sources
- Handles all source formats: OCR, tables, graphs, images, and texts
- Visual Recap feature for listening and learning while engaging with sources
- Focus and Ground capability to concentrate on specific information
- Personal Knowledge Base through tiny nous (notes) storage and curation
- Context Aware with long-term memory considering all your notes
- Grounded AI API is OpenAI client-compatible for easy integration
- Multimodal search supporting images, texts, and tables
- Library access to extensive content collections
- Scholar access with 2.5 million articles for semantic search
- Unlimited search, notes, and uploads on free Basic plan
- Advanced security and data privacy with world-class measures
- Centralized billing and managed client support for Enterprise
- Can save responses to long-term memory as tiny nous
- Psychology of trust and credibility built into platform design
- No simple document summaries but enhanced insights connecting dots
- Live Oversight for enterprise knowledge worker collaboration
- API processes sources and provides multimodal answers with citations
Nouswise cons
- Free tier has 10 questions per day limit
- Free tier limited to 5 Files to Focus (monthly plan)
- Free tier has 30Mb file size limit (monthly plan)
- Essential and Professional monthly plans marked as Coming Soon
- Some pricing versions show conflicting file size limits (10Mb vs 30Mb)
- Enterprise plan requires talking to sales rather than self-signup
- API requires adding credits and payment method through Stripe
- Free tier limited to 10 files to focus on some pricing versions
- Yearly billing required for best pricing discounts (27% off)
- Scholar and Library access only on Professional tier
- Visual Recap feature only available on Professional plan
- API access requires API key generation and credit management
- 14-28 day free trial only on Professional tier, not lower plans
- Automatic Top Up configuration needed to avoid API blocking
- Context Aware long-term memory may have performance implications with many notes
Frequently asked questions about Nouswise
What is Nouswise?
Nouswise is your personal search engine and answer engine that provides trusted answers from your trusted sources. It is an agentic AI-empowered answer engine focused on trust and credibility, instantly becoming an expert in information that matters to you including books, papers, and other sources in all forms like OCR, tables, graphs, images, and texts.
What's unique about Nouswise?
Nouswise is unique because it provides verifiable answers with fine-grained line-by-line visual and textual citations from sources. Unlike simple document summaries, it delivers enhanced insights derived from connecting the dots between sources. It also features Context Aware long-term memory that considers all your notes (tiny nous) for every query, and offers multimodal search supporting images, texts, and tables.
What can I use Nouswise for?
You can use Nouswise for academic research, creating presentations, finding numbers for presentations, knowledge work, serious research work, conducting research with the Scholar library of 2.5 million articles, semantic searching like Google, saving and curating responses as tiny nous notes, building your personal knowledge base, and integrating via API into existing products.
What is search Focus?
Search Focus is a capability where you click the Focus button to select specific sources (books, papers, documents) that Nouswise instantly becomes an expert in. You can add as many papers as you wish to your project, and Nouswise will ground its answers in those focused sources, providing verifiable citations from them. The number of files you can focus on varies by plan: 5-10 files for Basic/Essential, unlimited for Professional.
What is Discord Community for?
The Discord Community provides a space for Nouswise users to connect, collaborate, ask questions, and receive support. It's part of the platform's ecosystem for knowledge workers to work together and get help with using the tool effectively.
What problem is nouswise solving? OpenAI can do that easily!
Nouswise solves the trust and credibility problem in AI-generated answers. While OpenAI and other AI models can provide answers, Nouswise uniquely ensures credibility and reliability remain at the forefront by providing verifiable answers with line-by-line visual and textual citations from your trusted sources. It focuses on enhanced insights from connecting dots rather than simple summaries, and maintains trust in the new era of AI search.
Why citations are important?
Citations are important because they make answers verifiable. Nouswise provides fine-grained line-by-line visual and textual citations from sources, allowing users to verify that answers are genuinely grounded in their trusted information. This ensures credibility and reliability of AI-generated answers, which is central to Nouswise's mission of retaining and enhancing trust in AI search.
🔒 How is the data stored?
Nouswise stores data with world-class security and data privacy measures. The platform keeps user data safe and is built for serious work in a focused and secure environment. Data is stored to enable the Context Aware long-term memory feature that considers all your notes (tiny nous) for every query.
🛡️How do you ensure my data is secure and private?
Nouswise ensures data security and privacy through world-class security measures, advanced security features (especially for Enterprise), and comprehensive data privacy protocols. The Enterprise plan includes advanced security and centralized billing. The platform is built as an agentic assistant for serious work with trust and credibility as core principles.
What is the Grounded AI API?
The Grounded AI API processes your sources and provides multimodal answers with citations from those sources. It is OpenAI client-compatible for easy integration with existing applications, allowing you to integrate Nouswise into an existing product or build on top of it. The API requires enabling access in settings, adding a payment method through Stripe, generating an API key, and sending it as a bearer token in the Authorization header. It's available on the Professional plan with a 28-day free trial.