Confide Content is a smart content hub — think Notion meets Zapier meets ChatGPT. Teams upload and organize documents, set access controls, then build AI workflows on top: RAG-powered search and chat, and low-code pipelines that automate document-heavy work like comparing specs across vendor PDFs.
Overview
Companies store thousands of contracts, specs, and manuals in systems that can only find them by name. The knowledge inside stays locked up, and the processes around those documents — extracting fields, comparing vendors, translating, summarizing — stay manual. Confide Content combines CMS storage, retrieval-augmented generation, and low-code workflow orchestration in one platform.
It's built as three independent modules — CMS, Search + AI, and Workflow — so different clients enable different combinations, behind enterprise auth (SSO/SAML) and role-based access control.
The journey
Teams upload and organize content — vendor PDFs, spreadsheets, images — with versioning, metadata tagging, and access control from the first file.
An async pipeline converts PDFs and spreadsheets into browser-viewable formats and extracts the text the AI layer will work with.
Documents are chunked and embedded into a per-tenant index — Japanese included — so every file becomes searchable by meaning, not just filename.
Chat and search run over the index. AI outputs carry confidence scores and citations back to the source documents.
Drag OCR, translation, and summarization blocks into a graph, point it at a folder, and the pipeline runs in the background — resumable if a step fails.
Inside the platform
Content isn't only uploads. A block-based editor lets teams author pages right inside the CMS, next to the files they reference — and PDFs open in an in-browser viewer, converted by the async pipeline, so nobody downloads a file just to read it.
Any file or folder can become a conversation. The chat panel answers from the documents themselves — scoped to what the user is allowed to see, with the sources pinned right above the answer. Ask about a product catalog and it reads the actual catalogs, then tells you what's in them, document by document.
The workflow builder is a node graph: model nodes (object detection, OCR, classification, content moderation), transforms (crop, text extraction, frame sampling), and logic (confidence filters, tagging) — wired from inputs to outputs and run against folders of content.
Every page keeps an activity log and a version history you can restore from. Sharing is restricted-by-default, granted per person or group with explicit roles — the access model the retrieval layer enforces when the AI answers.
Three modules
CMS
Storage with versioning, metadata tagging, org/user/permission management, and object casting — turn a file into a task, or content into a PDF.
Search + AI
Retrieval-augmented chat and hybrid search over everything a user is allowed to see, with citations linking every answer to its sources.
Workflow
A low-code node graph for document processes — extract fields from vendor PDFs, generate comparison matrices, chain OCR to translation to summary.
Architecture
The CMS core owns storage, versioning, metadata, and access control. Retrieval is its own service behind a hardened gateway: the gateway terminates TLS and validates tokens, while the retrieval API itself lives on a private network with separate stores for job metadata and the chunk index. Above both sits the action layer — the CMS talks to workflows only through versioned action contracts, and every execution writes to an authoritative trace and audit history.
Storage, versioning, metadata tagging, org/user/ACL management, async conversion pipeline.
Gateway-only exposure, per-tenant chunk index, hybrid dense + BM25 search fused with RRF.
Versioned action contracts between CMS and workflows, with trace IDs and audit events on every run.
Outcome
The shift is in how people reach information: instead of opening files one by one and skimming, they ask — and the answer arrives with the documents that back it up.
Next project
Events · 2026