danswer/README.md

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<strong>[Danswer](https://www.danswer.ai/)</strong> allows you to ask natural language questions against internal documents and get back reliable answers backed by quotes and references from the source material so that you can always trust what you get back. You can connect to a number of common tools such as Slack, GitHub, Confluence, amongst others.

<h3>Usage</h3>

Danswer provides a fully-featured web UI:




https://github.com/danswer-ai/danswer/assets/32520769/563be14c-9304-47b5-bf0a-9049c2b6f410




Or, if you prefer, you can plug Danswer into your existing Slack workflows (more integrations to come 😁):


https://github.com/danswer-ai/danswer/assets/25087905/3e19739b-d178-4371-9a38-011430bdec1b


For more details on the admin controls, check out our <strong><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=geNzY1nbCnU">Full Video Demo</a></strong>!

<h3>Deployment</h3>

Danswer can easily be tested locally or deployed on a virtual machine with a single `docker compose` command. Checkout our [docs](https://docs.danswer.dev/quickstart) to learn more.

We also have built-in support for deployment on Kubernetes. Files for that can be found [here](https://github.com/danswer-ai/danswer/tree/main/deployment/kubernetes).

## 💃 Features 
* Direct QA + Chat powered by Generative AI models with answers backed by quotes and source links.
* Intelligent Document Retrieval (Hybrid Search + Reranking) using the latest NLP models.
* Automatic time/source filter extraction from natural language + custom model to identify user intent.
* User authentication and document level access management.
* Support for LLMs of your choice (GPT-4, Mixstral, Llama2, etc.)
* Management Dashboards to manage connectors and set up features such as live update fetching.
* One line Docker Compose (or Kubernetes) deployment to host Danswer anywhere.

## 🔌 Connectors 

Efficiently pulls the latest changes from:
  * Slack
  * GitHub
  * Google Drive
  * Confluence
  * Jira
  * Zendesk
  * Notion
  * Gong
  * Slab
  * Linear
  * Productboard
  * Guru
  * Zulip
  * Bookstack
  * Document360
  * Request Tracker
  * Hubspot
  * Local Files
  * Websites
  * With more to come...

## 🚧 Roadmap
* Organizational understanding.
* Ability to locate and suggest experts from your team.
* Code Search
* Structured Query Languages (SQL, Excel formulas, etc.)

## 💡 Contributing
Looking to contribute? Please check out the [Contribution Guide](CONTRIBUTING.md) for more details.