# What is Klaie? > Klaie (pronounced “clay”) is a permission-aware AI workspace for companies. It answers from your files, apps and the web, and checks each person's access first. Canonical: https://www.klaie.ai/about Updated: 2026-11-01 Klaie, pronounced “clay”, is a permission-aware AI workspace for companies. Ask a question and it answers from your documents, connected apps and the web, with a citation for every claim. Before it opens a single file, it checks whether you're allowed to. ## One workspace for the whole company. - **Answers with sources**: Ask in plain words and get an answer from your files, apps and the web, with each claim cited. - **The right answer for each person**: Access is checked inside every search, so people only get answers from what they can already open. - **Finished work**: Ask for the deck, the document or the model and get a PowerPoint, Word or Excel file you can edit and send. - **A private model for sensitive work**: Sensitive mode keeps HR cases, legal drafts and unreleased numbers on a private model, away from outside AI providers. ## Who Klaie is for Klaie is for companies that want one AI workspace for everyone, including the people who handle restricted information. - Finance teams: board updates and Excel models with every figure cited - HR teams: policy answers for everyone, and confidential cases in Sensitive mode - Legal teams: clause search with citations, and confidential drafts - Sales teams: account research and follow-ups drafted for review - Founders and executives: one question across reports, inbox and calendar ## What Klaie does Everything happens in one workspace, with each person's access applied throughout. - Permission-aware search across your files, Google Workspace, Microsoft 365 and 150+ other apps - PowerPoint decks, Word documents and Excel models with working formulas - Deep research that reads company files and the web, then cites what it found - Scheduled routines, such as a sales briefing every weekday at 8 - Klaie Call: share your screen, ask out loud, and Klaie answers by voice and draws where you're looking ## What makes it different Many AI tools read everything they can reach and trust the model to keep quiet about it. Klaie checks access in the database before anything reaches a model, and plain code, not a prompt, decides what a tool may do. Reading and drafting happen on their own. Anything that would send, post or change something outside Klaie waits for a person to approve it. ## The models behind it Klaie has three everyday tiers: Klaie 1 for frontier work, Kai 1 for advanced work and Mol 1 for fast answers. You pick the tier, Klaie sends each request to the model best suited to it, and when a model is slow or down the request moves to the next best one. These tiers use third-party AI providers. Sensitive is the private tier. It answers on a model Klaie runs itself and never falls back to an outside provider. ## The company Klaie was founded by Archit Khandelwal and is built in Hyderabad, India. It's in early access. For sales or press, email founder@klaie.ai. Logos, colors and approved descriptions are on the brand page. ## Questions people ask ### What is Klaie? Klaie is a permission-aware AI workspace for companies. It answers from your documents, apps and the web with citations, and checks each person's access before a model reads anything. ### How do you pronounce Klaie? Like the word “clay”. ### Are KLAIE, klaie AI, KLAIE AI and klaie.ai the same thing? Yes. They're all Klaie, the AI workspace at klaie.ai. ### Is Klaie the same company as Clay, Klai or Klae.ai? No. Klaie is an AI workspace at klaie.ai, and it isn't connected to Clay (clay.com), Klai or Klae.ai. ### Who founded Klaie? Archit Khandelwal founded Klaie, which is built in Hyderabad, India. ### Who is Klaie for? Companies that want one AI workspace for everyone, with finance, HR, legal, sales and leadership all using it without seeing each other's restricted information. ### How much does Klaie cost? Klaie is free during early access, with no card needed. Paid plans will be Team at $25 and Business at $45 per member per month, or $20 and $37 billed yearly. Enterprise is priced for each organization. ### Which apps does Klaie connect to? Google Workspace, Microsoft 365 and 150+ other apps, including Slack, Notion, Jira, GitHub, HubSpot and Zoom. Klaie reads them through each person's own connection. ### Does Klaie use company data to train AI? Klaie never uses your content to train its own models. Third-party providers behind some tiers have their own terms, which Klaie flags, and Sensitive mode never reaches them. ### How does Klaie compare with Glean, Microsoft Copilot and ChatGPT Enterprise? Klaie checks each person's access before a model reads anything, keeps sensitive work on a private model, makes real Office files, and lets any team start for free in about a minute. The comparison pages cover each one side by side.