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Your company's own private AI model. ent learns from Confluence, Jira, Slack, Google Drive, Microsoft 365 and your internal systems, runs on-premise on your hardware, and answers with sources.

On-premYour hardware, no hosted AI APIs
CitedEvery answer shows its sources
Qwen3Open-weight base, 1.7B to 32B

Why ent

The answers your team needs are spread across wikis, tickets, chat threads and shared drives, and the people who know where to look are busy. General-purpose assistants don't know your company, and connecting them means sending your data to someone else's servers.

ent builds a model that knows your company and never leaves it. It is trained on your own documents, deployed inside your network, and owned by you: the weights, the index and the data.

How it works

Your systems
  • Confluence
  • Jira
  • Slack
  • Google Drive
  • SharePoint
  • Teams
  • Databases
  • Internal APIs
Your infrastructure
  1. 01Connect
  2. 02Prepare
  3. 03Train
  4. 04Ask
Company modelknowledge in the weights
Search indexexact, current, citable
Your people

Answers in seconds,

with the documents they came from.

Nothing in this picture talks to a hosted AI service. Training data is generated by a local model, and ent refuses to send it anywhere else.
01Connect

Sign in to each system and choose the spaces, projects, channels and folders to include.

02Prepare

Documents are cleaned, secrets and personal data redacted, then turned into training questions by a local model.

03Train

An open-weight Qwen model is fine-tuned on your company's knowledge with LoRA, on your own hardware.

04Ask

Employees ask in plain language. The model retrieves the relevant documents and answers with citations.

Answers with receipts

Every answer is grounded in your documents and cites them, so people can check the source instead of trusting a guess. The model is trained to point to the document it used.

QuestionHow do I get access to the staging cluster?
ent

Open an ITOPS ticket and ask your manager to approve it. Once approved, run acme login staging to get kubeconfig credentials, valid for 12 hours. [1]

  1. 1ITOPS-77: Staging cluster access for new engineers Jira
  2. 2#eng-help: How do I get access to the staging cluster? Slack
  3. 3Onboarding guide for new engineers › Accounts Wiki
A real answer from a model trained on a sample company (Acme Robotics, fictional), on a 16 GB laptop.

Two kinds of memory

A fine-tuned model alone memorizes facts unreliably, and facts go stale. ent combines both: the model learns your company, and a private search index keeps it exact and current.

In the model

Fine-tuning teaches your products, teams, terminology and how answers should sound. It travels with the model, no lookup needed.

In the index

Retrieval supplies exact figures, dates and the latest version of a document, and shows where each answer came from.

SourceModelIndex
Wikis, handbooks, engineering docsCompany-wide knowledge
Contracts, CRM, HR casesSensitive or fast-changing
Support transcripts, style guidesHow your company writes

You decide per source. Retrieval-only data never enters training, so it can be removed at any time and never leaks through the model's weights.

Integrations

Knowledge bases
  • Confluence
  • Google Docs
  • SharePoint
  • OneDrive
Work tracking
  • Jira issues
  • Jira comments
Conversations
  • Slack
  • Microsoft Teams
Your systems
  • SQL databases
  • Internal APIs
  • CSV & JSON exports
  • Any MCP server

Connections use each vendor's official sign-in, including the Model Context Protocol where available, and ent only ever reads. Content can be limited by space, project, channel, folder and date. Custom systems can be added as connectors.

Results

On a sample company, the trained model with retrieval gave the answers closest to the reference, and grounded answers recalled far more key facts than the base model on its own.

19 held-out questions about a fictional company (wiki, Slack, Confluence and Jira), Qwen3-1.7B on a 16 GB MacBook Pro after 300 training steps. Without retrieval, small models still invent figures; larger models and longer training close more of the gap. Your results depend on your data, which is why every pilot starts with an evaluation on it.

Security and privacy

Runs where your data isTraining, search and answering all run on your machines: a Mac, a GPU server or your private cloud.
No hosted AITraining questions are written by a local model. Sending data to an outside AI service is blocked unless you allow a host you control.
Redaction firstAPI keys, passwords, tokens, card numbers and phone numbers are removed before anything is stored or trained on.
Read, never writeConnectors only read from your systems. Credentials stay on your machine, outside configuration files.
Control per sourceMark sensitive sources as retrieval-only so they never reach the model's weights.
You own itThe trained model, its index and every intermediate file stay yours to keep, audit or delete.

On-premise deployment

ent trains and serves on hardware you already have. The model size follows the machine; the workflow stays the same.

HardwareModelGood for
Mac with Apple Silicon, 16 GBQwen3-1.7BPilots and single teams
Mac with Apple Silicon, 32 GB+Qwen3-4B to 8BDepartments
One GPU server, 24 to 48 GBQwen3-8B to 14BCompany-wide assistant
Multi-GPU or private cloudQwen3-32BLarge organizations

The finished model serves an OpenAI-compatible API, so existing internal tools can use it. Retraining on fresh data is one command, so it can run on a schedule.

Questions

Can we train an AI model on our Confluence, Jira and Slack data without sending it to OpenAI or another AI provider?

Yes. ent runs entirely on your own infrastructure. It reads your systems, writes its training questions with a local model, and fine-tunes an open-weight model on your hardware. Sending data to a hosted AI service is blocked unless you explicitly allow a server you control.

How is ent different from an enterprise search tool or a RAG chatbot?

A retrieval-only chatbot looks up documents and asks a general-purpose model to summarize them. ent also fine-tunes the model on your company's knowledge, so it understands your products, teams and terminology, and it keeps a private search index for exact, current answers that cite their sources.

Which AI model does ent use, and who owns it?

ent fine-tunes open-weight Qwen3 models, from 1.7B to 32B parameters depending on your hardware. The trained model, the search index and all intermediate data belong to you.

What hardware do we need to run a private, on-premise AI model?

A pilot runs on a single Apple Silicon Mac with 16 GB of memory. Company-wide deployments use a Mac with more memory, a GPU server, or your private cloud.

How does ent handle sensitive data and access permissions?

Secrets, card numbers and phone numbers are redacted before anything is stored. Anything trained into a model can be surfaced to everyone who uses it, so sensitive sources such as contracts, CRM or HR data can be marked retrieval-only: they are searchable and cited, but never enter the model's weights.

Which tools and data sources can ent connect to?

Confluence, Jira, Slack, Google Drive and Docs, SharePoint, OneDrive and Microsoft Teams, plus SQL databases, internal APIs, CSV and JSON exports, and any server that speaks the Model Context Protocol (MCP). Custom systems can be added as connectors.

Get started

ent is in early access. A pilot connects a few of your sources, trains a first model on your hardware, and measures it on questions your team actually asks.

Request a pilot · hello@quaedra.com