Khoj develops applied AI tools that integrate directly with users' workflows, offering a research workbench, AI co‑worker, and personal assistant platform. Their software enables users to organize and understand academic papers, automate tasks, and create custom AI agents that operate on local hardware. The focus is on transparent, adaptable solutions that prioritize safety and trust for human productivity.
Funding
$500K raised to dateRaised to date based on public sources. This may differ from the amount the company actually raised and is based only on what is publicly available on the internet.
Founders
Product
Problem
Knowledge workers and researchers face information overload, struggling to efficiently synthesize insights from scattered notes, documents, and online resources. Extracting relevant information and answering complex questions across multiple sources requires significant time and effort. Existing tools often lack personalization and transparency in their reasoning.
Solution
Khoj is an open-source AI platform designed to act as a "second brain," helping users extract insights from their personal knowledge base and the internet. The platform utilizes multimodal AI to understand documents, generate visualizations, and engage in voice chat. Khoj allows users to ask complex questions and receive grounded answers by tracing the AI's train of thought and the research it conducted. Users can personalize the platform by selecting specialist AI agents tailored to their needs and automating repetitive research tasks.
Target Audience
The primary target audience includes researchers, knowledge workers, and teams seeking to enhance productivity by leveraging AI for information synthesis and personalized research assistance.
Features
- Multimodal question answering across documents, notes, and the internet
- Support for various AI models, including Anthropic, OpenAI, and open-source models from Hugging Face
- Customizable AI agents for personalized recommendations
- Automated research and event-based notifications
- Document understanding and summarization capabilities
- Generation of images, diagrams, and charts
- Voice chat functionality
- Integrations with WhatsApp, Obsidian, and Emacs