SapienAI
Self-hosted research workspace with Docker, Ollama and cloud AI providers. Search papers, chat with documents and write in LaTeX, Typst or Markdown.
SapienAI is a self-hosted academic chatbot and writing workspace for researchers who want their sources, drafts and AI conversations in one place. It runs through Docker and connects to local models through Ollama or cloud models from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google.
Research spaces keep project documents, notes and sources alongside an editor that supports LaTeX, Typst and Markdown. You can choose how much AI assistance to use while writing. The AI can read uploaded material, summarize it and answer questions about its contents.
Semantic search covers chats and uploaded documents, with a Zotero connection for searching your reference library too. Integrated academic paper search gives responses supporting research evidence. For literature reviews, SapienAI can generate a review from uploaded sources and export it to Word or Excel. It also supports spoken conversations through realtime audio chat.
Messages, files and images stay in storage on your own device. Model choice is a separate privacy decision: Ollama provides a local model connection, while choosing a cloud provider sends the selected AI requests to that service. Cloud connections can use provider APIs directly or services such as Azure, AWS and Google Vertex.
