Sinequa
Enterprise search that has been doing this since 2002, now with retrieval-augmented generation on top.
Highlights
- Enterprise AI search platform with deep document understanding and grounded RAG
- Founded in 2002 by Jean Ferré; headquartered in Paris with US operations
- Approximately $20M+ Series C; backed by Jolt Capital and others
- Connectors for SharePoint, Confluence, Salesforce, ServiceNow, plus 200+ enterprise sources
- Sinequa Assistant generates grounded answers from indexed enterprise content
- Used by Fortune 500 and government agencies including major defense and pharma customers
- On-prem and air-gapped deployment options for regulated industries
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About Sinequa
What it is
Sinequa is an enterprise search platform with deep document understanding and grounded retrieval-augmented generation, connecting across the repositories a large organisation actually has and answering questions against them. It has been in enterprise search since 2002 and serves large corporates and government agencies.
Why it's different
Longevity is the argument and it is a better one than it sounds. Enterprise search is where a great many AI projects quietly die, and the reasons are unglamorous: connecting to a dozen repositories with different permission models, handling documents that are scans of faxes, and ensuring a search result never shows someone a file they should not see. Sinequa spent two decades on exactly that before the current wave, and the newer entrants are mostly rediscovering it. The trade is the incumbent's: heavier, more expensive, and slower to deploy than a modern tool pointed at a document store — and if your content is in three modern systems with clean APIs, the newer options will be faster to value.
How people use it
It is used where content is scattered across legacy systems and permissions are non-negotiable — government, pharmaceuticals, engineering, financial services. The connector coverage and the permission model are what to evaluate, not the answer quality, because that is where these projects fail. A grounded answer that cites the source document is the output worth insisting on, since an unsourced answer over internal documents is not actionable.
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