Looking for an alternative to IBM Watson Explorer?
Get to know Lookeen. If you are looking for an IBM Watson Explorer alternative, you want to make company knowledge searchable and analyzable with AI – under your own control.
Why Lookeen for enterprise search
What Lookeen does differently and what that means for your daily work.
Search plus AI, locally
Lookeen combines proven full-text search with Lookeen AI: summaries, reviews and draft replies with local language models – based on your searchable data.
AI with local models
Lookeen AI summarizes, reviews documents and drafts replies – with language models in your own infrastructure. Off by default and controlled by your administrators.
Scanned documents become searchable
OCR makes text in scans, faxes and image PDFs findable without changing the originals. With Lookeen Server, recognition can run locally.
Permission-aware results
Lookeen takes over rights from Active Directory, the file system and Exchange. Nobody finds more through search than they could already open.
Typical use cases
This is where Lookeen plays to its strengths, each with its own page and details.
Frequently asked questions
What to know before you switch from IBM Watson Explorer to Lookeen.
Is Lookeen an alternative to IBM Watson Explorer?
Lookeen Server is on-premises enterprise search with optional AI: search files, emails and archives and analyze them with local models – permission-aware.
How does Lookeen AI get the right information?
Lookeen AI works on the content that search finds and the user selects – always within that user's permissions.
How does Lookeen handle AI and privacy?
Lookeen AI works with local language models in your infrastructure. It is off by default, every action applies only to the selected document, and customer data is never used for training.
Which file formats does Lookeen search?
Almost 100 formats, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF, LibreOffice, RTF, HTML, images, CAD files, archives and source code. File names are always searchable; you decide which types are indexed by content.
Where is my data processed?
On your premises. The index and configuration live on your own drives; Lookeen GmbH has no access to indexed content. Lookeen is developed in Karlsruhe, Germany.
Desktop or Server – which fits us?
Lookeen Desktop suits single workstations and small teams. Lookeen Server provides one central, permission-aware index for organizations with many users, Exchange and file servers.
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