Overview

Stoa is an on-premises AI workspace. It runs entirely inside your network, on your hardware, with the open-source or commercial models you choose. It is built for organizations that can't, or won't, send their data to someone else's cloud.

What Stoa is for

Most organizations have built up years of institutional knowledge: policies, reports, research, contracts, manuals, case files, correspondence. That knowledge lives in file shares, databases, email threads, and the heads of senior staff. Finding the right information at the right time is slow, depends on who you know, and gets harder every year.

Stoa turns that knowledge into something your staff can actually use: ask a question in plain language, get a cited answer drawn from your own documents and systems, in seconds.

It is not a chatbot. It is a workspace where your team runs daily Q&A, deep research, drafting, compliance lookup, and routine tasks against tools you configure on your environment.

Core capabilities

Knowledge bases. Turn a document (a report, a policy, a manual, a contract, a paper) or a set of web pages into a searchable knowledge base, one per source. Stoa indexes it with semantic search and reranking, and can turn a whole batch of files into their own knowledge bases in one step. Every answer it returns is grounded in source passages with page references.

Agents. Create specialized assistants for each department or role. A Compliance Agent loaded with your regulatory documents. A Grant Writing Agent that knows your publications. An HR Agent that answers from actual policy documents. Each agent has its own knowledge bases, tools, prompts, and guardrails.

Skills. Built from the same Agents screen, just as a different kind: a skill has no model of its own, and works by getting folded into whichever agent is given it as a tool. Package a repeatable piece of know-how once, "draft a donor report from this quarter's data," "compare two policies clause by clause," and any agent that needs it can call on it.

Workflows. Guided, multi-step procedures for routine requests, built once and reused by your team: onboarding a new starter, triaging an access request, filing a ticket. A workflow can drive itself forward through its steps, and pause partway through to ask a specific person to approve a step before it goes ahead.

Scheduled runs. Turn a prompt or a workflow into something that runs itself on a cadence you set, daily, weekly, whatever the task needs, instead of waiting for someone to ask. Each run's output collects in its own conversation.

Tools. Connect Stoa to your internal systems: databases, REST APIs, webhook triggers, file operations. Tools run inside your network. We help you build the tools your team needs, including connectors for legacy systems that don't speak modern API standards.

Deep research. A multi-step research pipeline for questions that need real analysis. Stoa scopes the question, plans sections, drafts each one, critiques its own work, and revises until quality gates pass, with an option to pause for human approval along the way.

Daily chat. Plain-language Q&A over your knowledge and tools. Reasoning is transparent: see exactly which documents and tools the AI consulted, and every claim grounded in a knowledge base is backed by a citation you can check against the source passage.

Built for serious environments

Stoa supports the controls that regulated industries need:

• Active Directory or LDAP integration with auto-provisioning on first login.
• Granular role-based access control on knowledge bases, agents, tools, prompts, and models.
• Comprehensive audit logging of every action: who did what, when, from where.
• Email notifications for new accounts and workflow approval requests, and webhooks into Slack, Teams, or your own systems for a much wider set of platform events.
• White-label branding so each customer organization sets its own product name, tagline, and logo.
• Air-gapped operation for classified environments and locked-down sites.

How it's delivered

Stoa is sold as a one-time setup, scoped to your environment. Once delivered, it runs forever on your infrastructure. An optional maintenance license covers ongoing bug fixes, new features, and priority support.

For locked-down or air-gapped sites, an engineer travels on-site (or coordinates directly with your infrastructure team) to deliver and update the platform. No remote access required.

Where to go next

• New admin? Start with the Installation guide and the Concepts glossary.
• End user? Open the Chats page, the Knowledge bases guide, and Workflows for guided multi-step tasks.
• Building integrations? See Custom tools and Building skills.
• Running a deployment? The Operations playbook covers what to monitor and how to troubleshoot.