Introduction to Akurion
Akurion Documentation
Akurion is an enterprise knowledge platform for private AI over company knowledge. It ingests approved content, enriches it with useful metadata, prepares it for search and relationship discovery, and delivers cited answers through the web app, workflows, REST APIs, and MCP tools.
Akurion is built for teams that need more than a generic chatbot. It is designed for governed knowledge operations: project-level access, controlled ingestion, metadata-aware retrieval, graph context, citation-backed answers, developer APIs, and operational controls.
What Akurion Provides
| Capability | What it means |
|---|---|
| Connected knowledge | Upload, process, and search governed project knowledge through the enabled ingestion paths for your workspace. |
| Document intelligence | Extract text, generate metadata, chunk content, embed documents, and track processing state. |
| Advanced RAG | Run metadata-aware, graph-aware research with streaming cited answers. |
| Knowledge graph | Build and manage project-level entities, relationships, evidence, review queues, and suppression rules. |
| Workflows | Create reusable AI workflows for research, compliance checks, summaries, and repeatable team processes. |
| Developer platform | Use REST endpoints and MCP tools to integrate private knowledge into apps, agents, and automation. |
| Governance | Manage projects, users, roles, SSO, API keys, credit usage, encryption settings, and audit-friendly controls. |
Core Product Areas
Projects and Workspaces
Projects organize knowledge bases, uploaded files, enabled data sources, chat threads, metadata settings, graph settings, workflows, members, and API keys. Organizations can manage users, admins, workspace naming, SSO settings, and subscription-level API keys.
Data Ingestion
Akurion supports direct file upload and workspace-enabled ingestion paths. Source connector availability is controlled in the app and only enabled source types should be used in customer commitments or implementation plans.
AI Chat and RAG
Akurion supports multiple answer modes:
- Fast mode for direct, low-latency cited answers.
- Research mode for deeper retrieval and analysis.
- Agentic and MCP-enhanced modes for multi-step reasoning, metadata filters, graph context, and tool traces.
Answers can include streaming text, source citations, follow-up questions, answer details, retrieval summaries, and source actions.
Metadata and Filters
Projects can define metadata keys and metadata prompts. Akurion can generate metadata during ingestion and use it later for dynamic retrieval filters, UI filter chips, API searches, and MCP tool calls.
Graph RAG
Graph RAG adds project-level entity and relationship context. Akurion can build graph nodes and edges from file evidence, search graph context during retrieval, and expose graph management controls for rebuilds, review items, aliases, suppression rules, and manual edits.
Developer API and MCP
Akurion exposes:
- REST developer API under
/api/v1/* - JSON-RPC MCP endpoint under
/mcp-server - UI-safe developer proxies for logged-in users
- Project-scoped and subscription-scoped API keys
- Tool-level credit tracking
Developers can search project knowledge, generate answers, inspect metadata schemas, collect source context, manage files and data sources, and integrate Akurion knowledge into agent workflows.
Common Use Cases
| Use case | Example |
|---|---|
| Internal knowledge assistant | Answer questions across uploaded and enabled project knowledge. |
| Compliance research | Produce cited summaries from policies, tickets, reports, and evidence files. |
| Support knowledge search | Search support, product, and operational documentation together. |
| Developer RAG API | Add private knowledge retrieval and answers to internal apps. |
| Agent/MCP integration | Give coding agents or AI assistants governed access to project knowledge. |
| Knowledge graph discovery | Explore entities, relationships, evidence, and source-linked context. |
| Recurring workflows | Run repeatable analysis tasks with traceable results and citations. |
Security and Governance
Akurion is built around enterprise controls:
- Project membership and role-based access.
- Project and subscription API keys.
- Hashed-at-rest API key runtime authentication.
- One-time plaintext API key display behavior.
- Subscription key project scoping with explicit project selection.
- Optional project encryption settings.
- OAuth and SSO control-plane support.
- Rate limits and credit tracking.
- Source/file status, retries, and failure reporting.
Where to Go Next
- Start with Getting Started.
- Connect sources with the Data Sources Guide.
- Learn retrieval behavior in AI Chat and RAG Features.
- Explore graph capabilities in Knowledge Graph.
- Build automations with Workflows.
- Integrate as a developer with API Documentation.