SurfSense

Open Source alternative to NotebookLM for teams.

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Aug 14, 2026

Overview

What is SurfSense?

SurfSense is a highly customizable AI research agent, connected to external sources such as search engines, Google Drive, Slack, Microsoft Teams, Linear, Jira, ClickUp, Confluence, BookStack, Gmail, Notion, YouTube, GitHub, Discord, Airtable, Google Calendar, Luma, Circleback, Elasticsearch, Obsidian, and more to come. With core features of NotebookLM, you can now connect any LLM to your internal knowledge sources and chat with it in real time alongside your team.

What is SurfSense used for?

AI Cover Generator Web Scraping AI Email Generator AI Legal Assistant AI Contract Management AI Accounting AI Contract Review AI Pitch Deck Generator AI Tax Assistant AI Report Writing

User Groups

Research Teams Knowledge Workers Ai Enthusiasts Open Source Communities Product Teams Data Analysts Content Creators Privacy-Focused Users

Top Features

Report generation and exports
Knowledgebase search and citation
Podcast generation
Image generation
Real-time collaborative group chats with your team members
Long Document Q&A

How to use SurfSense?

1. Go to https://www.surfsense.com and log in. 2. Connect your connectors and sync. Enable periodic syncing to keep connectors synced. 3. While connector data is indexing, upload documents. 4. Once everything is indexed, ask away (use cases): - Basic search and citation - Report generation and exports (PDF, DOCX for now) - Podcast generation - Image generation - Real-time collaborative group chats with your team members - Long Document Q&A - All use cases at https://github.com/MODSetter/SurfSense#how-to-use-surfsense

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Report generations with build in exports of PDF & DOCX and more to come
Real-time collaborative group chats with your team members to move fast
Multimedia artifacts support podcasts and image generation, with slides and videos to come soon.
Access to shared team context so you don't have to wait for your team members to respond.
Self-hostable and open source for privacy-focused individuals
Connects with more than 20 external connectors and services.

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