Rescue Your Company’s Lost Intelligence Permanently

For our physical on-premise systems (Vault and Live), absolutely not. You can onboard 5 employees or 500, and query the system as much as you need. Your ongoing monthly bill is exactly Ksh 0. For ZolaKnows: Cloud, your flat monthly subscription covers unlimited questions and users on your dedicated instance, making your technology budget predictable.

We handle the heavy lifting. Every ZolaKnows tier includes our white-glove data ingestion process. Our specialists securely connect the system to your legacy historical archives or cloud platform APIs, structure the records, configure the user dashboard, and walk your team through how to use the dashboard on day one.

With our physical on-premise appliances, your data never leaves your office building. With ZolaKnows: Cloud, your records are stored in a completely isolated, private cloud environment that belongs solely to your company. It is never used to train public models, and our automated Anonymization Gateway ensures your brand’s integrity is protected even if you connect external public AI tools.

ZolaKnows is designed to process nearly any format your business uses daily. This includes raw email archives, text files, PDFs, Microsoft Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, PowerPoint presentations, Google Docs, Google Sheets, and raw Slack message history.

Yes. If your historical files or client folders contain scanned PDFs, image files, or old receipts, our data ingestion engine automatically runs them through a secure, local text-recognition process during the ingestion phase. This extracts the text from the images, making your old paper archives fully searchable.

Not at all. For our physical systems (Vault and Live), the heavy processing, data indexing, and conversational searching happen entirely inside the physical machine itself using its own high-performance processors, saving you bandwidth.

Yes. Traditional search engines only look for exact keyword matches. Zola maps the semantic context of your language. It maps the intent and relationship of the terms used across your corporate files, allowing it to interpret specific jargon and acronyms correctly.

Because ZolaKnows: Vault and Live are physical on-premise hardware assets, they do not require an active internet connection to process data or answer questions. If your office network loses connection to the outside world, your team can still connect to the physical box over the local network.

By hosting your private instance in our cloud, we hook your corporate brain directly up to high-performance enterprise GPUs. This gives your team lightning-fast response times, superior handling of massive document sets, and top-tier data processing speeds—all without you needing to install, power, or cool expensive server hardware in your actual office.

Features and data integrations are identical. Both pull continuously from Slack, Emails, and Shared Drives in real time, and both respect your internal team file permissions. The only difference is where the data sits. If you want 100% physical possession of the data box under your roof, choose Live. If you want maximum performance, zero local IT maintenance, and instant setup, choose Cloud.

We provide complete deployment flexibility. By default, your team can access Zola through a beautiful, dedicated web interface hosted at your company’s custom, private hostname or secure IP address. Additionally, Zola can be delivered directly to your workforce as an interactive workspace bot inside Slack or Microsoft Teams, allowing employees to query the repository without opening a new browser tab.

By default, ZolaKnows: Cloud runs independently on your own private cloud GPU. If you choose to activate the optional public integration (using your own OpenAI, Anthropic, or Gemini API keys), Zola can outsource highly complex reasoning tasks to those external networks. Our platform handles this by finding the information in your private database, running it through our Anonymization Gateway to remove sensitive names or numbers, sending the safe context to the public AI, and then securely putting the names back in place on your team’s screen.

Yes, you have total control. During the setup process, you can define exactly which Slack channels, Google Drive folders, or email inboxes ZolaKnows is permitted to access. If you have sensitive projects or private departmental channels that you want to keep excluded from the database, you simply toggle them “off” in your administrative dashboard. You decide what goes into the brain.