Learn how Docura uses AI to improve your workflow, and how it differs from cloud AI.
No. Docura runs entirely on your device.
Your documents, queries, stored facts, and workspace data are never uploaded or sent to external AI services.
By contrast, cloud-based AI tools require you to send your data to remote servers for processing. This introduces additional security, privacy, and compliance considerations that are outside your direct control.
Docura avoids cloud-related security and compliance issues entirely by keeping all processing local on your computer.
Docura runs modern AI models locally on your computer.
When you ask a question, Docura retrieves the most relevant sections of your files using retrieval logic engineered for real-world professional documents, and reasons directly over that evidence.
Cloud-based AI tools typically rely on sending large amounts of context — documents, conversation history, and prompts — back and forth over the network.
Docura eliminates the need to send large amounts of information to and from the cloud by bringing the AI to your data.
Yes — Docura accesses modern models' extensive general knowledge and can be used for general questions and discussion.
Where Docura differs is how it retrieves and grounds information.
Cloud-based chatbots rely on accumulated conversation context. This can cause responses to drift over time.
Docura prioritises direct, factual answers drawn from your documents or stored facts. Each question triggers a fresh, targeted retrieval pass — keeping answers stable, inspectable, and grounded in trusted material.
A Workspace is a self-contained knowledge environment.
Each Workspace has its own document index, stored facts, and AI context. Information is intentionally isolated between Workspaces.
With cloud-based AI tools, context is mixed between conversations, making it difficult to tell which answers are coming from your current project context.
Workspaces give Docura clear context boundaries — so projects, clients, or subject areas never bleed into one another.
Yes. Docura allows you to store explicit facts within each Workspace.
These facts are treated as authoritative. They are prioritized over documents, conversational context and general knowledge.
Most cloud-based AI tools do not offer a way to formally distinguish between authoritative truth and conversational input. This can lead to inconsistencies and drift.
Docura gives you a way to anchor the system to what you know is correct.
Docura follows a defined hierarchy:
1) User-stored facts (always authoritative)
2) Relevant document excerpts
3) General model knowledge
Document retrieval is purpose-built to reflect how professional documents are written.
In many cloud-based systems, these sources are blended together implicitly, making it difficult to understand why an answer was produced.
By applying this heirarchy, Docura's answers are consistent, inspectable, and grounded in identifiable sources.
Docura is designed to accept and reason over a wide range of common documents:
PDF, Word, plain text, Excel, CSV, and images that contain text.
Document text is extracted, structured, and indexed locally so all supported files can be searched and queried within a Workspace.
For spreadsheets, Docura understands tabular data and can answer questions and generate graphs about totals, trends, and comparisons.
For images, text is detected and converted into readable material that can be indexed and queried like any other document.
Yes. Docura uses a retrieval-based approach designed for large, real-world knowledge bases.
Your documents are indexed and broken into meaningful sections, preserving structure rather than flattening into generic text .
When you ask a question, Docura searches the entire knowledge base and retrieves the information that best matches the intent of the question.
The AI reasons over this specific evidence, producing answers that are accurate, grounded, and complete — without overwhelming the model.
Docura is designed to be efficient, predictable, and responsive over long sessions.
Because it runs locally, Docura avoids bottlenecks common to cloud-based AI tools such as network latency, shared server queues, and accumulating context.
Docura performs targeted retrieval for each question, keeping performance and answer quality consistent over time.
Modern laptops handle this workload well. If your computer comfortably runs everyday professional software, Docura will feel responsive. GPU-accelerated models are offered when compatible hardware is detected.
