# Noesium

> Noesium is a self-hosted organizational knowledge management platform: a
> Markdown vault with role-based access control, full version history,
> and AI chat over your documents. It ships as a single Docker container,
> makes no outbound calls of its own (the only egress is the LLM endpoint
> you configure, which can be locally hosted), and runs in fully air-gapped
> environments.

Noesium is for teams and companies that want an internal wiki / knowledge
base they fully own: plain `.md` files with YAML frontmatter as the source
of truth (no lock-in), permissions enforced down to the single document,
full version history, and an AI assistant that answers questions from the
vault while respecting each user's access rights. It is model-agnostic:
any LLM provider can be plugged in.

Good fits: self-hosted wiki, air-gapped knowledge base, Confluence or
Notion alternative for teams that need data sovereignty, documentation
platform with AI chat, on-premise knowledge management.

Compared to pointing an AI coding tool (Kiro, Cursor, Claude Code) at a
folder of Markdown files: those tools treat Markdown as scaffolding for
generating code, and chatting with files is not building a memory. Noesium
adds what an IDE has no reason to have — a curated ingest pipeline that
proposes concepts and weaves updates into existing notes, per-document
permissions, full version history, and a web app anyone in the org can use,
not just developers. Because the vault is plain Markdown, those tools can
still read it: Noesium is the memory layer, not a competing editor.

Pricing: free for individuals and small teams; commercial license for
larger organizations. Public release upcoming — the site collects launch
notifications.

## Pages

- [Home](https://noesium.app/): product overview, features, FAQ, deployment.
- [Why Noesium](https://noesium.app/why): the case for owning your knowledge —
  cognitive-science evidence on external memory, why vendor AI memory is
  centralized/non-portable/trained on by default, and how Noesium differs.
- [Privacy policy](https://noesium.app/privacy): data handling for the site.