# askFinz

> askFinz (also written askfinz, AskFinz, ask finz, finz, or finz AI) is an AI platform with purpose-built workspaces for different kinds of work — research, code, chat, news, search, data, dashboards, knowledge, finance and more — sharing one memory layer, one login, and a router that picks the right model for each task. A subsidiary of PAUL V | Holdings.

Key facts:
- Routes queries across 10 cloud model providers (OpenAI, Gemini, Mistral, Llama, Qwen, DeepSeek, Moonshot, NVIDIA NIM, Z.ai, Google Cloud) — the best model is chosen automatically per task.
- Browser extension carries 380+ AI models that run on your device inside Chrome and Edge.
- Browser Extension & Desktop App — separate from cloud workspaces, from $8.19/mo with no token caps or usage limits.
- 21+ live workspaces, each purpose-built for a discipline.
- 51+ specialist AI agents across 10 groups — foundational orchestration, research, code, chat, news, browser, search, workflow, memory, safety.
- Runs its OWN web index — askFinz reads the web itself rather than buying, renting or reselling search results from another provider. This is the platform's core structural difference from most AI products.
- Surfaces: cloud workspaces at *.askfinz.ai, browser extension, desktop app (full IDE), and askFinz OS.
- Interoperability: A2A, MCP, ACP, A2P, A2UI open protocols — external agents and tools can call askFinz and vice versa.
- Currently in private access — invites rolling out.

## Platform

- [askFinz](https://askfinz.com/): The platform overview — what askFinz is, the workspaces it ships, the index behind them, and how to get access.
- [Platform overview](https://askfinz.com/platform): What askFinz is, what it does, and how you use it.
- [All workspaces](https://askfinz.com/apps): The 29 workspaces in the askFinz ecosystem — one per discipline.
- [Models](https://askfinz.com/models): How askFinz picks the right model, the 10 cloud providers it routes across, and the 380+ models in the extension.
- [Agents](https://askfinz.com/agents): 51+ specialist AI agents across 10 groups and how they're orchestrated to collaborate.
- [Protocols](https://askfinz.com/protocols): Open agent-interoperability protocols supported — A2A, MCP, ACP, A2P, A2UI.
- [API](https://askfinz.com/api): Programmatic access to the same router, agents, and citation layer.
- [Access](https://askfinz.com/access): The identity layer — single sign-on, sessions, billing, devices and recovery across every workspace and device.
- [Changelog](https://askfinz.com/changelog): What's shipped recently across workspaces, agents, and infrastructure.

## Web Index

askFinz operates its own index of the web. It is not a licence, a resale or a wrapper around another search provider — the reading, the filing and the storage are all askFinz's own. This is what lets the platform set its own search price and reach material a bought feed does not carry.

- [Web Index](https://askfinz.com/web-index): What the index is, where it reads from, and what it deliberately does not hold.
- [How the index works](https://askfinz.com/how-the-index-works): The read path in three stages (L1, L2, L3), and the storage economics that make holding the whole thing affordable.
- [Collections](https://askfinz.com/collections): The 47 collections across 20 stores — research, law, standards, patents, medicine, markets, news and more, each filed as the kind of thing it is rather than as loose web pages.
- [askFinz vs traditional indexes](https://askfinz.com/compare/web-index): How owning an index differs from renting one, with verified per-1,000-search rates across the market.
- [Search API price comparison](https://askfinz.com/compare/search-apis): What a thousand web searches costs across search APIs that run their own index — askFinz, Keiro, Brave, Exa, You.com, Linkup, Tavily and SerpApi.
- [Crawler](https://askfinz.com/crawler): How askFinz reads public and partner sites, and the pace it holds.
- [Web safety](https://askfinz.com/web-safety): How malware, scams and adult material are kept out of the index without quietly deleting the good web — layered checks, a human override, and published figures.
- [Submit a domain](https://askfinz.com/submit-domain): Ask for a site to be read.
- [Partners](https://askfinz.com/partners): Sites that feed their own content in directly, with priority and real-time freshness.
- [Run a node](https://askfinz.com/indexer_node): Turn a Windows PC you already own into an askFinz indexer node — one line, no reformat, capped so it stays out of your way.
- [Indexer OS](https://askfinz.com/indexer_os): A partner-deployed appliance that turns spare hardware into dedicated indexer nodes. Sets itself up on first boot, recovers and updates itself.
- [Indexer for Docker](https://askfinz.com/indexer_docker): Run an indexer node as a Docker container on Windows, Linux or macOS. One command to start, one to remove.
- [What is web indexing?](https://askfinz.com/web-index/what-is-web-indexing): Web indexing in plain English: crawl, read, store, retrieve. Most indexes store links to pages — askFinz stores what the pages actually say.
- [Web indexing vs web scraping](https://askfinz.com/web-index/vs-web-scraping): Scraping charges you per page, every time, and breaks the moment a site redesigns. Indexing is done once, ahead of time, and stays fresh on its own.
- [AI web indexer](https://askfinz.com/web-index/ai-web-indexer): An AI web indexer reads pages for meaning instead of keywords, files them by what they are, and answers in milliseconds. Here's what that actually takes.
- [No rented proxy pool](https://askfinz.com/web-index/no-proxies): askFinz doesn't rent a residential proxy pool. Its fleet reads from its own machines in several countries, and a refusal is retried, not laundered.
- [The index behind the apps](https://askfinz.com/web-index/for-ai-agents): Chat, Research, Search and News all read from the same index. It's what powers every askFinz app, not a feed sold or licensed on its own.

Key facts:
- 47 collections across 20 stores. Material is filed by what it is — a judgment, a standard, a clinical trial, a filing — not as undifferentiated web pages.
- 24 of those collections have a public page describing what they hold; they are listed under "Collections" below. The rest are counted but not yet written up.
- Read from the source wherever an organisation publishes properly, rather than scraping a worse copy off the open web. Standards, patents and clinical research are the clearest cases.
- Storage is a few kilobytes per stored page. That figure is published live on the pages above rather than quoted here, because it moves.
- Continuously refreshed rather than rebuilt on a schedule.
- Light on the sites it reads. Because almost everything is handled at L1, a publisher sees a
 small number of ordinary requests spread over time rather than a heavy browsing session per
 page — and a page read once answers questions for everyone, so searches never send fresh
 traffic back at the publisher.
- Reads from askFinz's own machines. There is no rented proxy pool.
- Search pricing: $1.00 per 1,000 searches bundled with the extension, $0.75 per 1,000 as a top-up, $3.50 per 1,000 standalone.
- Not currently sold as a standalone API or feed. It powers askFinz Search and the apps built on it. That is a decision rather than a technical limit, and could change if there is industry interest.

## Collections (24 with a page)

- [All collections](https://askfinz.com/collections): The shelf listing — what each collection holds and what it lets you do.
- [Papers, preprints and the data behind them](https://askfinz.com/collections/research-and-data): Open-access research read in full — with the datasets a finding rests on kept alongside the write-up.
- [Reporting from thousands of publishers, de-duplicated](https://askfinz.com/collections/news-and-briefings): The day's coverage read as it is published, with outlets running the same wire copy recognised as one story.
- [Reference knowledge, read from the wikis that maintain it](https://askfinz.com/collections/encyclopedia): The settled account of a subject, read from the maintained entry rather than a copy of it.
- [How industries describe themselves, in their own words](https://askfinz.com/collections/industry-and-sector): Trade bodies and companies explaining their own market — where segment names and category definitions actually originate.
- [What listed companies file, and what they said about it](https://askfinz.com/collections/markets-and-filings): Regulatory filings kept beside the earnings calls that explained them, with the reporting period attached to both.
- [Clinical knowledge, and the trials behind it](https://askfinz.com/collections/medicine-and-clinical-research): Registered studies kept as registry records — with phase, sponsor and recruiting status intact — beside the literature.
- [Products matched across retailers, with what owners said](https://askfinz.com/collections/products-and-reviews): The same item recognised across shops, so you compare a product rather than ten pages selling it.
- [What is for sale, to let, and being built](https://askfinz.com/collections/property-and-construction): Live property listings and construction records, kept with the practical detail a decision actually turns on.
- [Registered marks, with their territory and status](https://askfinz.com/collections/trademarks): Trademark registrations read from the offices that grant them — searchable by what a mark covers, not just its spelling.
- [Public repositories, read with their documentation](https://askfinz.com/collections/code-repositories): Libraries findable by what they do rather than what they are called, with the docs read alongside the code.
- [Long-form works and the manuals nobody puts on a web page](https://askfinz.com/collections/books-and-manuals): Product manuals and book-length texts read page by page — including the ones published only as documents.
- [Syllabuses and course material, with the level attached](https://askfinz.com/collections/course-material): What a programme actually teaches, read from the institution rather than a directory's summary of it.
- [Questions people really asked, and what actually worked](https://askfinz.com/collections/questions-and-answers): Threads read for their resolution — the accepted answer rather than the longest argument.
- [Openings as the employer published them](https://askfinz.com/collections/jobs): Roles read from the employer's own posting rather than an aggregator's copy, which is often stale or altered.
- [Getting there and staying there, from live listings](https://askfinz.com/collections/travel): Routes, stays and activities read from operators, with dates and availability kept as structured detail.
- [Titles keyed to the identifier each industry uses](https://askfinz.com/collections/film-music-and-video): Releases matched on their industry identifier, so a remaster, a reissue and a same-titled remake stay separate things.
- [What is on, and what it actually involves](https://askfinz.com/collections/events-and-recipes): Events and recipes held with their quantities, timings and places intact rather than summarised away.
- [Food production, read from the bodies that record it](https://askfinz.com/collections/agriculture): Agricultural material held as records — crops, yields, practice and the regulation around them.
- [Patents](https://askfinz.com/apps/patents): Granted patents and published applications from more than a hundred patent offices — searchable by what an invention does, not just the words in its title.
- [Legislation and policy](https://askfinz.com/apps/legislation): Acts, regulations, statutory instruments and policy documents — taken from official publishers rather than a summary of them.
- [Case law](https://askfinz.com/apps/case-law): Judgments from national and supranational courts — searchable by what a case decided, not only by its name.
- [Clinical trials](https://askfinz.com/apps/clinical-trials): Registered studies with their sponsors, phases and status — the trial record itself, not a report about it.
- [Technical standards](https://askfinz.com/apps/standards): Technical standards in full — the documents that define how systems actually interoperate.
- [Public tenders](https://askfinz.com/apps/tenders): Contract notices from public buyers — who is buying what, where, and by when.

## Web Index by industry (12)

- [Web data for Finance](https://askfinz.com/web-index/for/finance): What the index holds for Finance, and the workspaces that read it — Finance, Charts, Data, Research, News.
- [Web data for Legal](https://askfinz.com/web-index/for/legal): What the index holds for Legal, and the workspaces that read it — Legal, Research, Docs, Knowledge.
- [Web data for Healthcare](https://askfinz.com/web-index/for/healthcare): What the index holds for Healthcare, and the workspaces that read it — Med, Research, Knowledge, Docs.
- [Web data for Education](https://askfinz.com/web-index/for/education): What the index holds for Education, and the workspaces that read it — Learn, Research, Knowledge, Docs.
- [Web data for Real estate](https://askfinz.com/web-index/for/real-estate): What the index holds for Real estate, and the workspaces that read it — Estate, Map, Finance, Docs.
- [Web data for Retail](https://askfinz.com/web-index/for/retail): What the index holds for Retail, and the workspaces that read it — Shop, Data, Charts, Socials.
- [Web data for Media](https://askfinz.com/web-index/for/media): What the index holds for Media, and the workspaces that read it — Stream, News, Socials, Create.
- [Web data for Travel](https://askfinz.com/web-index/for/travel): What the index holds for Travel, and the workspaces that read it — Travel, Map, Research.
- [Web data for Consulting](https://askfinz.com/web-index/for/consulting): What the index holds for Consulting, and the workspaces that read it — Research, Docs, Charts, Knowledge.
- [Web data for Technology](https://askfinz.com/web-index/for/technology): What the index holds for Technology, and the workspaces that read it — Code, Projects, Workflow, Data.
- [Web data for Government](https://askfinz.com/web-index/for/government): What the index holds for Government, and the workspaces that read it — Research, Docs, Knowledge, Data.
- [Web data for Nonprofit](https://askfinz.com/web-index/for/nonprofit): What the index holds for Nonprofit, and the workspaces that read it — Docs, Projects, Mail & Calendar, Data.

## Workspaces (29)

- [All workspaces](https://askfinz.com/apps): One workspace per discipline, sharing one login and one memory layer.
- [Chat](https://askfinz.com/apps/chat) [shipping]: Switch between AI minds in a single thread. Bring files, keep history.
- [Research](https://askfinz.com/apps/research) [shipping]: Notebooks that read, synthesise and reference. Branch, version, merge — turn a question into a defensible answer.
- [Code](https://askfinz.com/apps/code) [shipping]: Projects, deployments, templates, a pair-programmer that reads the room. A home for the work between commits.
- [News](https://askfinz.com/apps/news) [shipping]: Many sources, deduplicated and clustered, with a daily audio briefing you can listen to.
- [Search](https://askfinz.com/apps/search) [shipping]: askFinz's own search engine. Built so a human, an agent or a model can ask the same question and get back something they can each use.
- [Dash](https://askfinz.com/apps/dash) [shipping]: Dash is the internal control panel for askFinz operators and account admins. Account-wide config, billing, model usage, audit trails and observability — not a public product.
- [Storage](https://askfinz.com/apps/storage) [shipping]: Drag, drop, share and recover. A recycle bin, link sharing and quick search over your files.
- [Train](https://askfinz.com/apps/train) [beta]: Run a fine-tune, watch the progress, ship the result. Roll back when you need to. Adapt a base model on your own data and deploy it next to the catalog.
- [Workflow](https://askfinz.com/apps/workflow) [beta]: A visual pipeline builder. Wire askFinz into the way you already work — triggers, steps, AI calls, retries. Pipelines that run while you sleep.
- [Mail & Calendar](https://askfinz.com/apps/mail) [shipping]: Email and calendar with an agent on call. Triage, drafts in your voice, and scheduling across calendars.
- [Docs](https://askfinz.com/apps/docs) [soon]: How to use askFinz well, for the people who want to go deeper.
- [Finance](https://askfinz.com/apps/finance) [shipping]: A global markets terminal — live prices and deep data on stocks, ETFs, crypto, indices and options worldwide, with AI forecasts and research, all explained in plain English.
- [Med](https://askfinz.com/apps/med) [soon]: Organise records, look up references, prepare for appointments. Privacy isolated by design.
- [Learn](https://askfinz.com/apps/learn) [shipping]: Bring in your real course material and Learn turns it into AI study tools, a lockdown exam simulator, a knowledge bank and honest progress analytics — grounded in your own lectures, explained in plain English.
- [Data](https://askfinz.com/apps/data) [soon]: Drop a file, ask a question, get a chart. No formulas required.
- [Charts](https://askfinz.com/apps/charts) [soon]: A self-serve dashboard and reporting workspace — connect your data, drag fields onto a canvas, build charts and share them. Like Power BI, native to askFinz.
- [Knowledge](https://askfinz.com/apps/knowledge) [soon]: Connect the platforms you already use — Drive, SharePoint, Notion, Slack, GitHub, Jira, Salesforce and more — and askFinz pulls them into one searchable, permission-aware knowledge layer. Once it's in Knowledge, every other workspace can read it: ask in Chat, cite in Research, build a dashboard in Charts.
- [Estate](https://askfinz.com/apps/estate) [soon]: Listings with the questions you forgot to ask, answered upfront.
- [Travel](https://askfinz.com/apps/travel) [beta]: Flights, hotels, cars and activities — drafted, costed, booked, all inside one workspace. Live carrier inventory, transparent pricing, multi-stage round-trip selection, heatmap seat picker, tight-connection warnings and a discovery map of where you can fly from your home airport this year.
- [Stream](https://askfinz.com/apps/stream) [beta]: A creator media platform — upload video and music, go live from OBS, and earn from your audience in credits, with Finz AI assisting hosts and viewers throughout.
- [Shop](https://askfinz.com/apps/shop) [beta]: An e-commerce workspace where anyone can spin up a storefront — products, checkout, payments, orders, analytics. The order pipeline is wired to Mail and Workflow from day one, so receipts, shipping events and returns are built-in, not bolted on.
- [Legal](https://askfinz.com/apps/legal) [soon]: A workspace for studying case law and drafting and managing contracts. Notebooks that read, summarise and cite. A contract studio with a clause library that knows what your firm calls standard, and a risk panel that surfaces obligations the moment a document loads.
- [Map](https://askfinz.com/apps/map) [shipping]: A real-time map service for every workspace and a destination-grade app in its own right. Live ADS-B aircraft, AIS vessels, ~10k satellites tracked client-side, weather, airports, ocean / pollution / events overlays, plus geocoding and tile services every other askFinz workspace reaches into when it needs a pin, a route or a polygon.
- [Create](https://askfinz.com/apps/create) [beta]: An AI studio for generating, editing and remixing images and video. A layered editor for non-destructive image work, a timeline editor for video, an asset library shared with Storage, and a cost dial visible at every step.
- [Projects](https://askfinz.com/apps/project) [shipping]: Projects, sprints, boards and issues — with dependencies, burndown, automations and cross-project roll-ups.
- [Bank](https://askfinz.com/apps/bank) [soon]: Your day-to-day money workspace. Connect every account, see balances, move money, pay bills, watch your budget. Distinct from Finance (which is for markets and portfolios) — Bank is for the income, the bills, the transfers, the budgets. Read-only by default, never on-sells your data.
- [Socials](https://askfinz.com/apps/socials) [beta]: Connect every account, schedule across networks, analyse what's landing. One queue for posts, one calendar, one place to see how a thread travelled.
- [Feedback](https://askfinz.com/apps/feedback) [shipping]: The public feedback portal for the askFinz platform. Report bugs with severity and reproduction steps, request features with a why and examples, and vote on what the team should build next. Staff triage issues in real time — status changes, comment threads and resolution banners are visible to everyone the moment they happen.
- [Access](https://askfinz.com/apps/access) [beta]: Your identity layer for askFinz — single sign-on, sessions, billing, devices, recovery. Built to plug into askFinz OS so a fresh workstation comes online already signed in, with the workspaces, browser and extension already configured.

## Surfaces

- [Browser extension](https://askfinz.com/extension): A side panel that brings askFinz to whatever you're reading, without leaving the page.
- [Desktop](https://askfinz.com/desktop): A desktop client for Windows, macOS and Linux that wraps your workspaces and works offline when you do.
- [askFinz OS](https://askfinz.com/os): A purpose-built Linux distro (Ubuntu 24.04 LTS + k3s + KubeVirt) for workstations, servers and IoT devices. Kiosk into the askFinz cloud on top; a managed compute node the cloud schedules workloads onto underneath.

## Tools

- [Device compatibility check](https://askfinz.com/extension/compatibility_check): Check in one tap whether your device can run askFinz models locally, and see what happens if it can't. Nothing is installed; no result leaves your browser.
- [Browser fingerprint check](https://askfinz.com/browser_check): A free, instant check of your browser and device fingerprint: around two hundred readings, plus how every major CAPTCHA system would read you.
- [askFinz CAPTCHA](https://askfinz.com/captcha): Bot protection that leaves people alone. Most visitors are never asked to do anything, and every challenge has a way through that needs no sight.

## Pricing

- [Pricing](https://askfinz.com/pricing): Plans from free to Enterprise. Desktop App & Browser Extension give unrestricted access to 380+ models at $8.19/mo — no token caps. Cloud workspace plans start at free.
- Free (cloud): $0 — basic access.
- Student (cloud): $10/mo — full workspace access at student pricing.
- Starter (cloud): $15/mo — full workspace + agents + citations.
- Pro (cloud): $49/mo — higher limits, priority routing, advanced agents.
- Business (cloud): $149/mo — team features, shared workspace, admin controls.
- Enterprise (cloud): custom — dedicated infrastructure, SAML SSO, audit logs, askFinz OS access.

## Solutions

- [Solutions overview](https://askfinz.com/solutions): Industry-specific bundles combining multiple workspaces around real workflows.
- [Wealth & finance](https://askfinz.com/solutions/wealth): For analysts, advisors and operators of capital — research notebooks, multi-source news, semantic search and KPI dashboards under one login.
- [Healthcare](https://askfinz.com/solutions/healthcare): For medical professionals — literature review, clinical note drafting, drug-interaction lookup and patient-facing content generation.
- [Education](https://askfinz.com/solutions/education): For students and educators — essay assistance, citation management, quiz generation, course content creation and reading comprehension.
- [Research](https://askfinz.com/solutions/research): For academic and professional researchers — deep literature search, source matrix, citation network analysis and long-form synthesis.
- [Operations](https://askfinz.com/solutions/operations): For business operations teams — workflow automation, data analysis, report generation and cross-tool integration.

## Use cases

- [Use cases](https://askfinz.com/for): How different roles and disciplines use askFinz.
- [AI for equity research](https://askfinz.com/for/equity-research): Build a defensible equity research note in an afternoon — pull 10-K passages, earnings calls and news into one workspace where every figure cites its source.
- [AI for due diligence](https://askfinz.com/for/due-diligence): Run a consistent diligence pass over every target — the same rubric, the same source breadth, the same length each time, every finding traceable.
- [AI for market research](https://askfinz.com/for/market-research): Turn a market question into a sourced brief — reports, filings and multi-source news in one searchable workspace, every claim traced to its origin.
- [AI for competitive analysis](https://askfinz.com/for/competitive-analysis): Track competitors in one workspace — filings, releases and news synthesised into a living battlecard, every claim linked to the source behind it.
- [AI for financial analysts](https://askfinz.com/for/financial-analysts): One workspace for the analyst's day — morning briefing, citation-backed notes, watchlist news and a searchable record of everything you've read.
- [AI for consultants](https://askfinz.com/for/consultants): Research, synthesise and write the deliverable in one workspace — turn a client question into a sourced, defensible brief without the four-tool scramble.
- [AI for literature reviews](https://askfinz.com/for/literature-review): Run a literature review in one workspace — synthesise papers into a sourced summary, search everything you have read, keep every claim cited.
- [AI coding assistant for developers](https://askfinz.com/for/developers): Code with AI across the web IDE, your browser and the desktop app — one assistant, your files and history, available wherever you work.
- [AI for clinical research](https://askfinz.com/for/clinical-research): Search registered clinical trials by condition or phase, read them beside the published literature, and file a sourced summary traced to the record.
- [AI for legal research](https://askfinz.com/for/legal-research): Search judgments and legislation by the point of law, not just the case name, and draft a memo where every proposition carries its formal citation.
- [AI for patent search](https://askfinz.com/for/patent-search): Search patents by what an invention does across offices worldwide, read prior art beside the literature, and keep a documented trail for every filing.
- [AI for compliance monitoring](https://askfinz.com/for/compliance-monitoring): Track regulatory filings, enforcement actions and rule changes in one workspace — deduped news, searchable guidance, and a citation on every finding you file.
- [AI for procurement research](https://askfinz.com/for/procurement-research): Search public contract notices by what you supply, read the full notice instead of a summary, and track a buyer or category as new notices are published.
- [AI for product research](https://askfinz.com/for/product-research): Turn competitor releases, reviews and market coverage into a sourced synthesis, then carry the finding straight into a ticket on your team's board.
- [AI for content research](https://askfinz.com/for/content-research): Research a story before you write it — sweep deduped coverage, pull the supporting data, and draft with a citation on every claim an editor can check.
- [AI for teaching prep](https://askfinz.com/for/teaching-prep): Turn your own lecture material into quizzes, summaries and flashcards scoped to this week's unit, and research a current example with its source attached.
- [AI for student research](https://askfinz.com/for/student-research): Read your course material with per-file summaries, research beyond the reading list, and draft with a citation on every claim ready for your bibliography.
- [AI for technical documentation](https://askfinz.com/for/technical-documentation): Draft documentation grounded in what your code actually does, check how similar problems have been answered elsewhere, and keep every revision versioned.
- [AI for accountants: reconciliation and reporting](https://askfinz.com/for/accountants): A global markets terminal with live prices, company financials, AI forecasts, and alerts for easy market monitoring.
- [AI for founders: research, pitch and diligence](https://askfinz.com/for/founders): Track your portfolio, forecast prices, and manage projects with real-time insights — all in one place.
- [AI for traders: filings, news and market context](https://askfinz.com/for/traders): A global markets terminal with live prices, AI forecasts, and portfolio tools.
- [AI for students: research, revision and citations](https://askfinz.com/for/students): Turn your course into AI study tools, a lockdown exam simulator, and a knowledge bank.
- [AI for lawyers: case law, contracts and drafting](https://askfinz.com/for/lawyers): Draft contracts and briefs in hours, not days — with every clause explained and every risk highlighted.

## Agents (51+ across 10 groups)

- [Agents](https://askfinz.com/agents): Full catalogue of specialist AI agents.

### Foundational agents — Shared across apps
A small set of always-on pieces that route a prompt to the right specialist, plan multi-step work, and check the result before it reaches you.
- Thinker [shipping]: Reads the prompt and classifies intent, complexity and entities.
- Planner [shipping]: Breaks a task into ordered steps, each tagged with the kind of specialist it needs.
- Router [shipping]: Matches every step to the best-fit agent and the right depth of reasoning.
- Executor [shipping]: Runs the plan step by step, streaming each event so you can watch the work happen.
- Reflector [shipping]: Reviews the finished result against the brief and asks for a retry when quality is short.
- Ingestor [shipping]: Pulls relevant memory, prior work and uploaded files into context before the model sees them.
- A2A Bridge [beta]: Speaks the open agent-to-agent protocol so external agents can ask askFinz to do real work.

### Research agents — research.askfinz.ai
A reading room that browses for you, argues with itself, and writes only what it can cite.
- Deep Researcher [shipping]: Plans, browses and synthesises a long-form study, streaming every step.
- Council [shipping]: Runs the same prompt across several minds in parallel, then a judge merges the strongest drafts.
- Critic [shipping]: Generator + reviewer pair — scores a draft against a rubric and sends it back for one revision.
- Source Matrix [shipping]: Reads N sources across M questions and fills a comparison grid with a confidence score per cell.
- Citation Lens [shipping]: Pulls inbound citations for any source and labels each one as supporting, contradicting or neutral.
- Reviewer [shipping]: Lint, gap analysis and rubric scoring on a draft — surfaces uncited claims and missing sections.
- Library Trainer [beta]: Licences public-library documents for training, settles royalties and tracks owner credits.
- Template Extractor [shipping]: Reads any document and proposes a reusable structure you can apply to the next study.
- Suggestion Reviewer [shipping]: Turns tracked-change proposals into accept/reject decisions with an audit trail.

### Code agents — code.askfinz.ai
A pair-programmer that lives in the editor and a small army of specialists you can call when the work needs more than one head.
- Code Agent [shipping]: Pairs in the editor — reads the repo, edits files, runs commands, answers in your terminal.
- Inline Agent [shipping]: Highlight a span of code and ask for the rewrite right there; preview the diff before accepting.
- Swarm [shipping]: Run several code agents at once on the same prompt or on independent slices of a task.
- Coordinator [shipping]: Lets the main agent spawn sub-agents on its own and weave their answers into one reply.
- Sub-agent Spawner [shipping]: Drops a focused agent onto a sub-task with its own scratchpad, then hands the result back.
- Ultraplan [beta]: Multi-agent planning — parallel planners propose approaches, the best parts get merged.
- Batch Worker [shipping]: Runs thousands of prompts through a model in one cheap overnight job and streams results as ready.
- Skills [shipping]: Reusable role packs (refactor, test, review, debug, security, optimise) the agent loads on demand.
- Hooks Runner [shipping]: Fires shell commands before, during or after a tool call so your project rules stay enforced.
- Tool Server [shipping]: Exposes the workspace as a tool registry so other agents — even ones outside askFinz — can call it.
- Live Collaborator [beta]: Cursor presence, real-time cursors and shared selections when more than one person is in the file.
- Bug Hunter [shipping]: A specialised mode that hardens its prompt for reproducing, isolating and fixing nasty bugs.

### Chat agents — chat.askfinz.ai
Specialists you can summon by role inside any conversation — and one general-purpose mind that knows when to hand off.
- Researcher [shipping]: Reads broadly, cross-references claims, cites sources and structures the answer.
- Coder [shipping]: Generates, reviews, debugs and refactors code in any major language.
- Writer [shipping]: Drafts, edits and rewrites to a target tone — clean structure, plain language.
- Analyst [shipping]: Works with numbers — tables, comparisons, charts and quantitative reasoning.
- Summariser [shipping]: Distils long content into the essentials with a structured outline and TL;DR.
- Advisor [beta]: Secondary mind running alongside the primary, surfacing alternative suggestions as you go.

### News agents — news.askfinz.ai
Crawls, deduplicates, listens — turns the firehose into a single briefing and a daily audio version you can play.
- Crawler [shipping]: Reaches into hundreds of publishers, extracts full articles and keeps the index fresh.
- Analyst [shipping]: Sentiment, bias and category — every story scored so the briefing reads honestly.
- Briefing Host [shipping]: Builds the hourly transcript across today's top stories and renders it as audio.
- Risk Watcher [beta]: Scans the headline window for sector and ticker risk signals over a rolling fourteen-day view.

### Browser agents — Cross-app capability
A real browser an agent can drive — for the times the web won't give you an API.
- Navigator [shipping]: Drives a real, headed browser to read pages, follow flows and fill forms — with a screencast.
- Proxy Manager [shipping]: Rotates clean exit-IPs and degrades gracefully so a brittle site doesn't end the session.

### Search agents — search.askfinz.ai
askFinz's own search index — keeps every workspace findable for humans, agents and other models.
- Indexer [shipping]: Reads every workspace and keeps the askFinz vector index in sync as you work.
- Index Reviewer [shipping]: Sweeps the index for stale, broken or low-quality entries and quietly heals them.

### Workflow agents — workflow.askfinz.ai
Drag-and-drop flows that the platform can execute on a schedule or on demand.
- Workflow Runner [shipping]: Executes a custom flow you've designed — connects steps, ships the output, logs the run.

### Memory agents — Cross-app capability
What every other agent leans on so it doesn't forget you between sessions.
- Memory Keeper [shipping]: Saves the facts you ask it to remember and pulls them back into future conversations.
- Team Memory [shipping]: Shares a project-scoped memory across collaborators with last-write-wins reconciliation.
- Dreamer [beta]: Once a week, distils recent session logs into durable project memory you can review.
- Memory Searcher [shipping]: Semantic recall across everything memory has ever held — surfaces the right fact, fast.

### Safety agents — Cross-app capability
The pieces that say no on your behalf — so a fast agent never becomes a destructive one.
- Permissions [shipping]: Per-tool approval rules with wildcard allow/deny so risky actions always pause for you.
- Diff Reviewer [shipping]: Queues every file write for inspection before it lands — accept, reject or rewrite the patch.
- Sandbox [shipping]: Restricts which files and domains an agent may touch, even when it is told to do more.
- Verifier [beta]: Cross-checks an action against your stated intent before money is spent or content is sent.

## Protocols

- [Protocols](https://askfinz.com/protocols): Open interoperability standards supported by the askFinz Orchestrator.
- A2A (Agent-to-Agent) [Shipping]: Agents communicate directly with each other to coordinate complex tasks. The askFinz Orchestrator routes work between specialized agents using structured messages. Use: Internal agent coordination, sub-agent spawning, parallel task execution.
- MCP (Model Context Protocol) [Shipping]: Anthropic's open standard for connecting AI systems to external data sources and tools. askFinz agents can call MCP servers you configure. Use: External tool integration, custom data sources, third-party services.
- ACP (Agent Communication Protocol) [Shipping]: IBM's open protocol for structured agent communication and interoperability across different AI systems. Use: Cross-vendor agent communication, enterprise AI interoperability.
- A2P (Agent-to-Person) [Soon]: Agents pause for human input when needed. Permission requests, confirmations, and clarifications flow through this protocol. Use: Permission requests, CAPTCHA pauses, decision points, review gates.
- A2UI (Agent-to-UI) [Soon]: Agents stream structured updates to the interface. Progress indicators, intermediate results, and tool calls render in real-time. Use: Live progress streaming, step-by-step visibility, result rendering.

## Models

- [Models](https://askfinz.com/models): Cloud providers and on-device model hub.
- Cloud routing (10 providers): OpenAI, Gemini, Mistral, Llama, Qwen, DeepSeek, Moonshot, NVIDIA NIM, Z.ai, Google Cloud.
- On-device (browser extension): 380+ open-weight models via WebLLM/MLC — no data leaves the browser.
- Model selection: automatic per task; manual override always available.

## Guides (70)

- [Guides](https://askfinz.com/guides): Practical guides to using AI for real work — by workspace, by industry, and by use case.
- [Crawling vs indexing vs scraping](https://askfinz.com/guides/crawling-vs-indexing-vs-scraping): Crawling, indexing and scraping get used as synonyms, but they're three different jobs. A plain-English breakdown of what each one actually does.
- [How to get your site indexed by AI search](https://askfinz.com/guides/get-my-site-indexed-by-ai): Waiting to be discovered isn't the only option. How to get your site read, indexed and answerable by AI search — and how to keep control of it.
- [Why a headless browser gets a 403](https://askfinz.com/guides/headless-browsers-get-blocked): Same machine, same cookies, wildly different result. Why headless Chromium gets refused where a real browser sails through — and what that means.
- [How a search index is actually built](https://askfinz.com/guides/how-a-search-index-is-built): From a URL to an instant answer — a start-to-finish, plain-English walk through how a search index actually gets built and kept current.
- [How AI search actually finds an answer](https://askfinz.com/guides/how-ai-search-finds-answers): From your question to a sourced answer — how AI search bridges a live index and a language model to answer in words instead of ten blue links.
- [What web data actually costs](https://askfinz.com/guides/how-much-does-web-data-cost): Every AI product needs web data from somewhere. The real cost difference isn't the sticker price — it's whether you rent an index or own one.
- [Why most search can't read a PDF properly](https://askfinz.com/guides/indexing-pdfs-and-documents): Slide decks, scans and reports hold some of the most useful information on the web — and most search engines link to them without reading a word.
- [Real-time vs scheduled indexing](https://askfinz.com/guides/real-time-vs-scheduled-indexing): Days to weeks behind, or searchable the moment it's read — the difference between scheduled crawling and real-time indexing, explained plainly.
- [How robots.txt works for AI crawlers](https://askfinz.com/guides/robots-txt-and-ai-crawlers): What robots.txt actually controls, how AI crawlers are supposed to read it, and how to check whether yours is doing what you think it is.
- [What is a vector index?](https://askfinz.com/guides/what-is-a-vector-index): How a vector index lets a search system match ideas instead of exact words — a plain-English explanation of "searching by meaning."
- [What is a web crawler?](https://askfinz.com/guides/what-is-a-web-crawler): What a web crawler actually does, how it decides where to go next, and how a well-behaved one is supposed to treat the sites it visits.
- [Who owns the index behind your AI?](https://askfinz.com/guides/who-owns-the-index-behind-your-ai): Most AI search features call a rented search index. Here's how to tell who owns theirs, why it sets their price, and what happens when it gets pulled.
- [Why web scraping breaks (and keeps breaking)](https://askfinz.com/guides/why-web-scraping-breaks): Selectors move, sites redesign, blocks appear overnight. Why scraped data pipelines fail so often — and what actually keeps working instead.
- [Agent-to-agent (A2A), explained](https://askfinz.com/guides/agent-to-agent-a2a-explained): Agent-to-agent (A2A) lets AI agents hand off tasks to each other — enabling more complex, multi-step work than any single agent can handle on its own.
- [AI agents vs. chatbots — the difference](https://askfinz.com/guides/ai-agents-vs-chatbots): AI agents vs chatbots explained simply: chatbots respond to questions; agents take actions and work through multi-step tasks on your behalf.
- [The askFinz browser extension](https://askfinz.com/guides/ai-browser-extension): The askFinz AI browser extension puts a full AI side panel on any webpage — research, summarise, and act without leaving the tab you're already on.
- [AI chat across every major model, in one place](https://askfinz.com/guides/ai-chat-every-model): Stop juggling ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini in separate tabs. askFinz gives you multi-model AI chat in one place — same prompt, every model, no switching.
- [An AI coding workspace for whole projects](https://askfinz.com/guides/ai-coding-workspace): An AI coding assistant that works across your whole project — not just the line you're typing. Write, review, explain and iterate without switching tools.
- [Build dashboards with AI — no SQL](https://askfinz.com/guides/ai-dashboard-builder): An AI dashboard builder that turns plain-language questions into charts and live dashboards — so your data tells its story without a BI analyst in the way.
- [Turn your docs into a readable AI manual](https://askfinz.com/guides/ai-documentation): How an AI documentation tool transforms scattered internal docs into something anyone can query — so your team stops guessing and starts finding.
- [AI for creative & media teams](https://askfinz.com/guides/ai-for-creative-and-media-teams): How creative and media teams use AI for creators to move from brief to publish faster — without losing the voice, the quality, or the creative control.
- [AI for education & learning teams](https://askfinz.com/guides/ai-for-education): How education teams use AI for education to build courses, support learners, and cut the prep work that crowds out real teaching.
- [AI in healthcare, used responsibly](https://askfinz.com/guides/ai-for-healthcare): How healthcare teams use AI for research, documentation, and patient-facing work — with the human always in control and every source visible.
- [AI for legal teams](https://askfinz.com/guides/ai-for-legal-teams): How legal teams use AI for legal work — research, drafting, and document review — with the lawyer always in control and every source traceable.
- [AI for markets and portfolios](https://askfinz.com/guides/ai-for-markets-and-portfolios): How an AI finance assistant helps investors and advisors track markets, review portfolio positions, and turn research into decisions — all in one place.
- [AI for operations teams](https://askfinz.com/guides/ai-for-operations-teams): How operations teams use AI for operations to move faster on decisions, documentation, and cross-team coordination — without more tools to manage.
- [AI for research-heavy work](https://askfinz.com/guides/ai-for-research-heavy-work): How teams doing deep research use AI for research to move from scattered sources to a cited, defensible answer — without losing the trail.
- [AI for wealth & finance teams](https://askfinz.com/guides/ai-for-wealth-and-finance-teams): How advisory, wealth and finance teams use askFinz to research markets, draft client-ready notes, and build dashboards — without juggling ten tools.
- [A second pair of eyes for health questions](https://askfinz.com/guides/ai-health-assistant): How an AI health assistant helps you understand medical information, prepare for appointments, and navigate decisions — without replacing your doctor.
- [A creative studio for AI rendering](https://askfinz.com/guides/ai-image-studio): How an AI image studio lets individuals and teams generate, iterate, and use visuals without design tools or waiting for someone with design skills.
- [An AI inbox & calendar assistant](https://askfinz.com/guides/ai-inbox-and-calendar): An AI email assistant that reads, prioritises and drafts — so you spend less time processing your inbox and more time on the work that actually matters.
- [Connect every tool into one AI knowledge base](https://askfinz.com/guides/ai-knowledge-base): How teams use askFinz as an AI knowledge base to surface the right answer from every document, note, and system — without digging through folders.
- [Case law and contracts in plain English](https://askfinz.com/guides/ai-legal-assistant): How legal teams use an AI legal assistant in askFinz to research case law, review contracts, and produce plain-English summaries — fast and fully sourced.
- [Go live and build a community](https://askfinz.com/guides/ai-live-streaming): How creators use AI live streaming tools in askFinz to broadcast, engage their audience, and manage community channels — all from one place.
- [Your day's news, summarised by AI](https://askfinz.com/guides/ai-news-briefing): An AI news summary that reads the noise so you don't have to — filtered by topic, with verifiable sources and no algorithm deciding what matters to you.
- [AI-organised file storage](https://askfinz.com/guides/ai-organised-file-storage): AI file management that keeps your storage organised without you doing the organising — find anything fast, from anywhere, with the context you need.
- [Every account, one place to see your money](https://askfinz.com/guides/ai-personal-finance): How individuals use AI personal finance tools in askFinz to track accounts, understand spending, and plan ahead — without logging into six separate apps.
- [A project tool that knows the rest of your work](https://askfinz.com/guides/ai-project-management): AI project management that links tasks to the research and conversations behind them — so nothing important gets lost in a tool your team forgets to check.
- [Property listings, distilled by AI](https://askfinz.com/guides/ai-real-estate): How buyers and agents use AI real estate tools in askFinz to research listings, compare neighbourhoods, and move from first question to confident offer.
- [AI research that cites its sources](https://askfinz.com/guides/ai-research-that-cites-sources): An AI research tool that doesn't just give you an answer — it shows where the answer came from, so you can trust it, share it, and defend it.
- [An AI search engine for people, agents and LLMs](https://askfinz.com/guides/ai-search-engine): An AI search engine that understands questions, not just keywords — built for people doing real work and for the agents and LLMs working alongside them.
- [Multi-account social posting & scheduling](https://askfinz.com/guides/ai-social-media-posting): How teams and creators use AI social media tools in askFinz to draft, schedule, and publish across multiple accounts — without toggling between platforms.
- [A storefront native to your AI platform](https://askfinz.com/guides/ai-storefront): How creators and teams use an AI storefront in askFinz to sell products, manage orders, and handle customer questions — without a separate e-commerce tool.
- [Plan and book a whole trip in a paragraph](https://askfinz.com/guides/ai-travel-planner): An AI travel planner that turns a single prompt into booked flights, stays, and activities — without juggling airline tabs, hotel sites, or itinerary docs.
- [An AI tutor that follows your pace and progress](https://askfinz.com/guides/ai-tutor): How an AI tutor adapts to how you learn, remembers where you left off, and helps you go deeper on any subject — at any pace, on any device.
- [Drag-and-drop AI workflow automation](https://askfinz.com/guides/ai-workflow-automation): AI workflow automation built for non-engineers — connect tools, trigger actions, and route decisions with a visual canvas that ships in beta on askFinz.
- [askFinz Cloud: every AI workspace, one login](https://askfinz.com/guides/askfinz-cloud-workspaces): askFinz Cloud gives you every AI tool — research, chat, code, charts, knowledge — under one login, accessible from any browser on any device.
- [askFinz Desktop: your AI workspace](https://askfinz.com/guides/askfinz-desktop-app): The askFinz AI desktop app brings your full workspace — browser, IDE, storage and AI — into a single native app that runs independently of your browser.
- [askFinz OS: an operating system built around AI](https://askfinz.com/guides/askfinz-os): askFinz OS is an emerging AI operating system where AI assistance is part of the environment itself — not an add-on to an existing desktop.
- [Automate the repetitive parts of your week](https://askfinz.com/guides/automate-repetitive-work): Automate work with AI by setting up workflows that handle the recurring, predictable tasks so your time goes to the work that actually needs you.
- [Choosing AI tools for your team](https://askfinz.com/guides/choosing-ai-tools-for-your-team): A practical guide to evaluating the best AI tools for teams — what questions to ask, what traps to avoid, and how to tell capability from marketing.
- [Turn data into a dashboard you can share](https://askfinz.com/guides/data-into-shareable-dashboards): Self-serve dashboards let anyone on the team build and share charts — no BI license or SQL needed, so decisions happen faster and everyone stays in sync.
- [Fine-tune and track AI models end to end](https://askfinz.com/guides/fine-tune-ai-models): A fine-tuning platform that handles training runs, version tracking and evaluation, for teams who need AI built on their own data.
- [From question to cited answer](https://askfinz.com/guides/from-question-to-cited-answer): How AI with citations lets you research faster, trust the results, and share work that stands up to scrutiny — without chasing sources after the fact.
- [How AI model routing works (in plain English)](https://askfinz.com/guides/how-ai-model-routing-works): AI model routing explained: how platforms automatically match each task to the right AI model so you get better results, without choosing one yourself.
- [Keeping work private when you use AI](https://askfinz.com/guides/keeping-work-private-with-ai): Private AI for business means knowing where your data goes, what controls you have, and how to use AI without exposing your team's confidential work.
- [A live map of aircraft, ships & satellites](https://askfinz.com/guides/live-map-aircraft-ships-satellites): Track any flight, vessel, or satellite in real time from one map — without installing anything or stitching together separate live flight tracker tabs.
- [One sign-in for every workspace and device](https://askfinz.com/guides/one-sign-in-every-workspace): Single sign-on for AI tools that actually works across every askFinz workspace and device — no per-app logins, no session drift, no access gaps.
- [Bug reports, feature requests, community votes](https://askfinz.com/guides/product-feedback-board): How teams use a product feedback board in askFinz to collect reports, organise feature requests, and give their community a voice in what ships next.
- [Talk to your spreadsheets with AI](https://askfinz.com/guides/talk-to-your-spreadsheets): How AI data analysis lets you ask questions of your numbers in plain English — no formulas, no SQL, no waiting on the one person who knows the pivot table.
- [Put your whole team's knowledge in one place](https://askfinz.com/guides/team-knowledge-in-one-place): A team knowledge base powered by AI means anyone can find what your organisation already knows — without asking around or hunting through old files.
- [Use AI privately, on your own device](https://askfinz.com/guides/use-ai-privately-on-your-device): Private offline AI means your sensitive work stays on your machine — no cloud upload, no third-party access, no guessing what happens to your data.
- [What are AI tokens and context windows?](https://askfinz.com/guides/what-are-ai-tokens-and-context-windows): What are tokens and context windows in AI? A plain-English guide to why they matter for how much an AI can read, remember, and cost per conversation.
- [What is a large language model (LLM)?](https://askfinz.com/guides/what-is-a-large-language-model): What is an LLM? A clear, jargon-free explanation of large language models — what they are, how they learned, and what they're actually good at.
- [What is a multi-model AI platform?](https://askfinz.com/guides/what-is-a-multi-model-ai-platform): What is a multi-model AI platform? A plain-English guide to why access to multiple AI models in one place produces better results and lower costs.
- [What is an AI workspace?](https://askfinz.com/guides/what-is-an-ai-workspace): What is an AI workspace? A plain-English explanation of how purpose-built AI workspaces differ from chatbots, and why teams are switching to them.
- [What is MCP (Model Context Protocol)?](https://askfinz.com/guides/what-is-mcp-model-context-protocol): MCP (Model Context Protocol) is an open standard that lets AI assistants connect to external tools and data sources in a structured, interoperable way.
- [What is prompt engineering?](https://askfinz.com/guides/what-is-prompt-engineering): What is prompt engineering? A practical, plain-English guide to writing better AI prompts — and when it genuinely matters vs. when it doesn't.
- [What is retrieval-augmented generation (RAG)?](https://askfinz.com/guides/what-is-retrieval-augmented-generation-rag): What is RAG? A plain-English explainer on retrieval-augmented generation — how it works, why it matters, and when teams use it.
- [One AI workspace instead of ten browser tabs](https://askfinz.com/guides/one-workspace-instead-of-app-switching): App-switching quietly eats your day. Here's how teams consolidate research, writing, code, and dashboards into one AI workspace — with a single login.

## Integrations (26 connectors)

- [Integrations](https://askfinz.com/integrations): Bring the tools your work already lives in into one searchable place.
- [Airtable integration: search every base](https://askfinz.com/integrations/airtable): Bring Airtable into askFinz Knowledge so every base, table, and record is searchable and usable in plain language. Coming to askFinz soon.
- [Asana integration: search tasks and projects](https://askfinz.com/integrations/asana): Bring Asana into askFinz Knowledge so every task, project, and goal is searchable in plain language. Coming to askFinz soon.
- [BigCommerce integration: search your catalogue](https://askfinz.com/integrations/bigcommerce): Bring BigCommerce into askFinz Knowledge so every product, order, and customer record is searchable in plain language. Coming soon.
- [Box integration: search contracts and files](https://askfinz.com/integrations/box): Bring Box into askFinz Knowledge so every folder, document, and contract is searchable in Chat and Research. Coming to askFinz soon.
- [CSV upload: ask a dataset a question](https://askfinz.com/integrations/csv): Upload any CSV into askFinz Knowledge and every row becomes searchable and usable in Chat and Research in plain language. Coming soon.
- [Dropbox integration: search every file](https://askfinz.com/integrations/dropbox): Bring Dropbox into askFinz Knowledge so every file is searchable and citable in Chat and Research. Coming to askFinz soon.
- [Figma integration: search files and comments](https://askfinz.com/integrations/figma): Bring Figma into askFinz Knowledge so every file, frame, and design decision is searchable in plain language. Coming to askFinz soon.
- [GitHub integration: search repos, issues, PRs](https://askfinz.com/integrations/github): Bring GitHub into askFinz Knowledge so repos, pull requests, issues, and docs are searchable in Chat and Research. Coming to askFinz soon.
- [GitLab integration: search issues and wikis](https://askfinz.com/integrations/gitlab): Bring GitLab into askFinz Knowledge so merge requests, issues, and wikis are searchable in Chat and Research. Coming to askFinz soon.
- [Google Drive integration: search by content](https://askfinz.com/integrations/google-drive): Bring Google Drive into askFinz Knowledge so every doc, sheet, and slide is searchable in Chat and Research. Coming to askFinz soon.
- [Jira integration: search tickets and comments](https://askfinz.com/integrations/jira): Bring Jira into askFinz Knowledge so you can search tickets, track blockers, and discuss sprint health in plain language. Coming soon.
- [Linear integration: search issues and projects](https://askfinz.com/integrations/linear): Bring Linear into askFinz Knowledge so issues, projects, and roadmap context are searchable in Chat and Research. Coming to askFinz soon.
- [Microsoft Teams integration: search channels](https://askfinz.com/integrations/microsoft-teams): Bring Microsoft Teams into askFinz Knowledge so channels, chats, and meeting notes are searchable in Research and Chat. Coming to askFinz soon.
- [Notion integration: search pages and databases](https://askfinz.com/integrations/notion): Bring Notion into askFinz Knowledge so your wikis, databases, and notes are searchable and citable in Chat and Research. Coming to askFinz soon.
- [OneDrive integration: search your own files](https://askfinz.com/integrations/onedrive): Bring OneDrive into askFinz Knowledge so every file is searchable and usable in Chat and Research. Coming to askFinz soon.
- [Power BI integration: find the right report](https://askfinz.com/integrations/power-bi): Bring Power BI into askFinz Knowledge so every dashboard, dataset, and report is searchable and citable in plain language. Coming soon.
- [Proton Drive integration: search private files](https://askfinz.com/integrations/proton-drive): Bring Proton Drive into askFinz Knowledge so your privacy-first files are searchable, without compromising control. Coming to askFinz soon.
- [Salesforce integration: search your CRM](https://askfinz.com/integrations/salesforce): Bring Salesforce into askFinz Knowledge so every account, opportunity, and contact is searchable in plain language. Coming soon.
- [SAP integration: search records in plain words](https://askfinz.com/integrations/sap): Bring SAP into askFinz Knowledge so every record, report, and process is searchable in plain language across your organisation. Coming soon.
- [SharePoint integration: search the intranet](https://askfinz.com/integrations/sharepoint): Bring SharePoint into askFinz Knowledge so your intranet, wikis, and shared libraries are searchable in Chat and Research. Coming to askFinz soon.
- [Shopify integration: search orders and products](https://askfinz.com/integrations/shopify): Bring Shopify into askFinz Knowledge so every order, product, and customer record is searchable in plain language. Coming to askFinz soon.
- [Slack integration: find decisions in threads](https://askfinz.com/integrations/slack): Bring Slack into askFinz Knowledge so decisions buried in threads are searchable and citable in Research and Chat. Coming to askFinz soon.
- [SQL database search without writing queries](https://askfinz.com/integrations/sql-database): Bring any SQL database into askFinz Knowledge so every table and record is searchable without writing queries. Coming to askFinz soon.
- [Trello integration: search every board](https://askfinz.com/integrations/trello): Bring Trello into askFinz Knowledge so every board, card, and checklist is searchable with AI. Coming to askFinz soon.
- [Zendesk integration: search every ticket](https://askfinz.com/integrations/zendesk): Bring Zendesk into askFinz Knowledge so every ticket, macro, and resolution is searchable in plain language. Coming to askFinz soon.
- [Zoom integration: search meeting transcripts](https://askfinz.com/integrations/zoom): Bring Zoom into askFinz Knowledge so meeting transcripts and recordings are searchable in askFinz. Coming to askFinz soon.

## Comparisons (26)

- [Comparisons](https://askfinz.com/compare): Honest comparisons of askFinz and the tools you already know.
- [askFinz vs Amazon Bedrock Web Search](https://askfinz.com/compare/askfinz-vs-amazon-bedrock-web-search): A fair askFinz vs Amazon Bedrock Web Search comparison — Amazon's own new web index against a standalone workspace on an index askFinz reads and holds.
- [askFinz vs Apify](https://askfinz.com/compare/askfinz-vs-apify): A fair askFinz vs Apify comparison — a marketplace of scrapers you configure and run per job against a single standing index you can just search.
- [askFinz vs Brave Search API](https://askfinz.com/compare/askfinz-vs-brave-search-api): A fair askFinz vs Brave Search API comparison — an independent index sold as an API against a workspace built on an index askFinz reads and holds itself.
- [askFinz vs Bright Data](https://askfinz.com/compare/askfinz-vs-bright-data): A fair askFinz vs Bright Data comparison — a proxy network for reaching the web yourself against an index that has already read it and holds the result.
- [askFinz vs ChatGPT](https://askfinz.com/compare/askfinz-vs-chatgpt): A fair askFinz vs ChatGPT comparison — a mature conversational assistant against a multi-model workspace where research, code and filing share one login.
- [askFinz vs Claude](https://askfinz.com/compare/askfinz-vs-claude): A fair askFinz vs Claude comparison — a focused single-family assistant against a multi-model workspace that includes Claude and adds workspaces beyond chat.
- [askFinz vs Common Crawl](https://askfinz.com/compare/askfinz-vs-common-crawl): A fair askFinz vs Common Crawl comparison — a free, periodically-published public web archive against an index askFinz reads continuously and files by type.
- [askFinz vs DataForSEO](https://askfinz.com/compare/askfinz-vs-dataforseo): A fair look at DataForSEO vs askFinz — why $0.60 per 1,000 search-engine results is a real number, what it buys, and what it cannot reach.
- [askFinz vs Exa](https://askfinz.com/compare/askfinz-vs-exa): A fair askFinz vs Exa comparison — a semantic search API priced per call, with page text billed separately, against a workspace on an index askFinz holds.
- [askFinz vs Firecrawl](https://askfinz.com/compare/askfinz-vs-firecrawl): A fair askFinz vs Firecrawl comparison — an open-source scraping API for building your own pipeline against a maintained index you can search directly.
- [askFinz vs Google Gemini](https://askfinz.com/compare/askfinz-vs-google-gemini): A fair askFinz vs Google Gemini comparison — AI inside Google Workspace against a platform-agnostic workspace for research, code and automation.
- [askFinz vs Google Vertex AI Search](https://askfinz.com/compare/askfinz-vs-google-vertex-ai-search): A fair askFinz vs Google Vertex AI Search comparison — enterprise search priced across three dimensions against a flat rate on an index askFinz holds.
- [askFinz vs Grok](https://askfinz.com/compare/askfinz-vs-grok): A fair askFinz vs Grok comparison — a fast conversational assistant close to X against a multi-model workspace with research, code and a filed record.
- [askFinz vs Keiro](https://askfinz.com/compare/askfinz-vs-keiro): A fair askFinz vs Keiro comparison — the closest competitor on price, matched call-for-call on what page text actually costs at each tier.
- [askFinz vs Linkup](https://askfinz.com/compare/askfinz-vs-linkup): A fair askFinz vs Linkup comparison — a flat-rate search API for agents against a workspace built on an index askFinz reads and holds itself.
- [askFinz vs Microsoft Copilot](https://askfinz.com/compare/askfinz-vs-microsoft-copilot): A fair askFinz vs Microsoft Copilot comparison — AI inside Microsoft 365 and the Graph against a platform-agnostic multi-model workspace.
- [askFinz vs Notion AI](https://askfinz.com/compare/askfinz-vs-notion-ai): A fair askFinz vs Notion AI comparison — AI over the docs you have already written against a workspace for the research that happens before they exist.
- [askFinz vs Perplexity](https://askfinz.com/compare/askfinz-vs-perplexity): A fair askFinz vs Perplexity comparison — a fast cited answer engine against a workspace where the answer becomes work, on an index askFinz holds itself.
- [askFinz vs SearchAPI](https://askfinz.com/compare/askfinz-vs-searchapi): A fair look at SearchAPI vs askFinz — a low-cost multi-engine relay at $1.00–$4.00 per 1,000 against querying an index askFinz reads and holds itself.
- [askFinz vs SERP APIs](https://askfinz.com/compare/askfinz-vs-serp-apis): A fair look at SERP APIs vs askFinz — renting a search engine's results page against querying an index askFinz reads and holds itself.
- [askFinz vs SerpApi](https://askfinz.com/compare/askfinz-vs-serpapi): A fair askFinz vs SerpApi comparison — structured search-engine results at $25.00, or $9.17 at volume, per 1,000 against a workspace on an index askFinz holds.
- [askFinz vs Serper](https://askfinz.com/compare/askfinz-vs-serper): A fair look at Serper vs askFinz — a fast Google-results relay for developers against querying an index askFinz reads and holds itself.
- [askFinz vs Tavily](https://askfinz.com/compare/askfinz-vs-tavily): A fair askFinz vs Tavily comparison — the default search API for LLM agents against a workspace built on an index askFinz reads and holds itself.
- [askFinz vs Web Scraping APIs](https://askfinz.com/compare/askfinz-vs-web-scraping-apis): A fair look at web scraping APIs vs askFinz — building your own retrieval pipeline against drawing on an index askFinz already reads and maintains.
- [askFinz vs You.com Search API](https://askfinz.com/compare/askfinz-vs-you-com): A fair askFinz vs You.com Search API comparison — a configurable results API at $5.00 per 1,000 against a workspace on an index askFinz reads and holds.
- [Bing Search API Alternative](https://askfinz.com/compare/bing-search-api-alternative): Bing's Search API was retired on 11 August 2025. If you built on it, here is a fair look at askFinz as an alternative — a workspace on an index it holds itself.

## Research notes (8)

- [Research notes](https://askfinz.com/research): Short writing on what we believe, what we change our minds about, and how we read the work.
- [A workshop, not a chatbot](https://askfinz.com/research/a-workshop-not-a-chatbot): We argued for a single blank box, and rejected it. Here is the argument that lost, why it lost, and what the decision costs us.
- [Owning your tools again](https://askfinz.com/research/owning-your-tools-again): Count the layers of your working day that someone else can change without asking. For most professionals it is five out of six — and the honest fix is not "own everything", which nobody can.
- [Software should earn its keep](https://askfinz.com/research/software-should-earn-its-keep): A demo shows you the first time. Real work is the hundredth. Almost every design decision that matters is invisible in the first and decisive in the hundredth.
- [Speed is a feature, trust is the product](https://askfinz.com/research/speed-is-a-feature-trust-is-the-product): Every latency benchmark measures the wrong half of the clock. The wait is visible and the checking is not — which is why the faster answer is routinely the slower one to use.
- [We tell you which model wrote your answer](https://askfinz.com/research/tell-you-who-wrote-the-answer): Hiding the model is the industry default and it is a design choice, not a neutral one. It asks you to extend more trust than the situation earns.
- [The case against one big model](https://askfinz.com/research/the-case-against-one-big-model): The argument is not that more models are better. It is that being structurally unable to use anything else is a liability disguised as simplicity.
- [The hidden cost of switching tabs](https://askfinz.com/research/the-cost-of-switching-tabs): The expensive part of a context switch is not the switch. It is the climb back — and the climb never returns you to where you stopped.
- [The web became the operating system](https://askfinz.com/research/the-web-became-the-operating-system): You noticed it when a new laptop took twenty minutes to become useful. The browser stopped being where you look things up and became where the work is — and the counter-argument is stronger than most people admit.

## Infrastructure

- [Infrastructure](https://askfinz.com/infrastructure): Where your data lives — shown by function and city, with compliance certifications.
  - Live stream ingest (European Union (Finland)): Receives and packages live video before it reaches viewers.
  - Source code & version control (European Union (Netherlands)): Stores and versions the platform's source code and build history.
  - Primary object storage (European Union (Netherlands)): Holds your files, media and encrypted data at rest. First-line storage for every upload and workspace asset.
  - Object storage backup (live mirror) (European Union (Germany)): Live mirror of all primary object storage — syncs every 60 seconds. Activates automatically if primary storage is unavailable, with instant failover and no data loss beyond the last 60-second window.
  - Media & file storage (European Union (Netherlands)): Serves uploaded media and documents from close to you.
  - Content delivery & DNS (Global edge — 300+ cities): Routes every request to the nearest edge and resolves our domains — the reason pages load fast wherever you are.
  - SMS & voice communications (Global carrier-grade data centers): Delivers verification codes, alerts and voice calls.
  - Transactional email (European Union (Ireland)): Sends account, security and notification emails.
  - Payments & billing (European Union (Ireland)): Processes subscriptions and payments — card details go straight to a certified processor, never to askFinz.

## Company & trust

- [About](https://askfinz.com/about): The company, its structure, and the principles behind it.
- [Trust](https://askfinz.com/trust): Routing transparency — which model ran, which provider, and why.
- [Security](https://askfinz.com/security): Security practices and controls.
- [Status](https://askfinz.com/status): Live platform health.
- [Brand](https://askfinz.com/brand): Logo files and brand guidelines.
- [Press](https://askfinz.com/press): News, coverage and partnerships — media kit and press contact.
- [Careers](https://askfinz.com/careers): Open roles at askFinz.

## Legal (13 documents)

- [Legal](https://askfinz.com/legal): Terms, privacy policy and all legal documents.
- [Consumer Terms of Service](https://askfinz.com/legal/terms)
- [Commercial Terms of Service](https://askfinz.com/legal/terms/commercial)
- [Privacy Policy](https://askfinz.com/legal/privacy)
- [Cookie Policy](https://askfinz.com/legal/cookie-policy)
- [Health Data Privacy Policy](https://askfinz.com/legal/health-data-privacy)
- [Data Processing Addendum](https://askfinz.com/legal/data-processing)
- [Applicant Privacy Policy](https://askfinz.com/legal/applicant-privacy)
- [Acceptable Use Policy](https://askfinz.com/legal/aup)
- [Refund Policy](https://askfinz.com/legal/refund-policy)
- [Security Policy](https://askfinz.com/legal/security)
- [Responsible Disclosure Policy](https://askfinz.com/legal/responsible-disclosure)
- [Service Level Agreement](https://askfinz.com/legal/sla)
- [Disclaimer](https://askfinz.com/legal/disclaimer)

## Get started

- [Request access](https://askfinz.com/beta): Join the private-access waitlist.
- [Pricing](https://askfinz.com/pricing): Choose a plan.
- [Contact](https://askfinz.com/contact): Get in touch with the team.
- [Beta launch raffle terms](https://askfinz.com/raffle): Terms and conditions for the askFinz beta launch raffle. One verified signup = one entry.

## Alternate names

askFinz is also searched for as: askfinz, AskFinz, Askfinz, ask finz, ask finn, askfinn, askfin, finz, finz AI, finz LLM.