ETH Zurich spin-off · Built in Switzerland
Build, Scale and Own your Intelligence.
Uthereal turns the knowledge your organisation has built over decades into AI that belongs to you. Every answer comes from your sources, with the citation to prove it.
Knowledge-driven organisations build their AI with us.
Your organisation runs on what it knows
Expertise that doesn't scale
Your best people answer the same questions every week. When they leave, the answers leave with them.
Archives AI can't use
Books, journals, manuals and contracts hold your value. A general AI tool skims them like any other text.
Knowledge handed away
A public AI tool means sending your content to someone else's model, on someone else's terms.
Industry-leading accuracy. Proof in every answer
Typical AI tools, from assistants you can buy to RAG systems built in-house, read loose chunks of text. They miss about 4 in 10 of the facts an answer needs and fill the gaps with guesses. Uthereal creates Knowledge Objects and finds 95 in 100.
Evidence found for each answer
Uthereal: 95%. Typical AI tools and RAG systems: 59.3%.
As your content grows
With more to read, typical AI tools stall at about 69%, while Uthereal's results keep rising.
Misleading passages kept out
Tested on four public research benchmarks (MultiHop-RAG, OTT-QA, SciFact and BioASQ), plus our own journal set. Ahead on every one.
We build the knowledge layer your AI stands on
- Content: books, journals, guidelines, contracts, video. Every format, exactly as it is today.
- Structure: headings, paragraphs, tables and references are parsed with more than 99% extraction accuracy.
- Knowledge Objects: claims, evidence and methods become linked objects. Each one points to the exact page it came from.
- AI products: assistants, agents, search and APIs draw only on those objects. Every answer cites its sources, under your brand.
One knowledge layer. Three ways to use it
Create Knowledge Objects from your content once, and use them wherever your people and customers ask questions.
For your team
Agents that answer and draft inside the tools your people already use.
Build it into your product
Add cited answers to your own app with our SDK, API or MCP server. You keep your front end.
Launch it ready-made under your brand
Launch an assistant under your brand, on your domain, at your price. Your readers stay your customers.
Built with organisations whose knowledge is the product
From dental publishing to apps for frontline staff, our customers run their own AI on Uthereal. Under their own name.
- Quintessence: more than 75 years of dental publishing, now Quintessence AI, an assistant clinicians can question, answering from Quintessence titles and showing the page behind each answer.
- Beekeeper answers its 20,000 frontline users with Uthereal.
- Ask Lora: Lora Cecere's research became an expert agent her clients can question at any hour.
- Swiss Sustainable Finance: expert guidance on sustainable finance, for every member, from one trusted source.
- An expert firm whose growth was tied to hiring now delivers more with the team it has: new revenue within months, without new hires.
Your knowledge stays yours
You own the content and the AI built on it.
- Never sent to an LLM. Your content and your users' questions never go to a large language model: not for training, not for answering.
- Data stays in the EU. Swiss hosting is an option for data, and for some uses with self-hosted models.
- Zero data retention. Questions are never retained or resold.
- Runs where you choose: our cloud, your private cloud, your own data centre, or fully air-gapped.
- Your brand, your customers. The assistant carries your name.
- AES-256 at rest, TLS 1.2+ in transit; permissions per user, team or workspace; every query, answer and access is logged.
- SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 audits underway; aligned with the GDPR and Swiss data protection law.
For organisations whose value is what they know
- Publishers: turn your catalogue into AI products you sell or license, and keep the rights.
- Consultancies: package your methods as an agent that serves clients at any hour.
- Enterprise: give every employee the answer your best expert would give, with the source.
- Government: AI that runs on your own systems, with a full audit trail.
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Our secret is the mix. Years of enterprise AI architecture, combined with years of research
Our founders come from both sides: one designed and delivered enterprise AI in the cloud, the other researched machine learning at ETH Zurich. Uthereal is an ETH Zurich spin-off, and our work on AI reliability is funded by a $1M Innosuisse grant.
- Wael Abdelmalek, Co-founder and CEO, former AWS enterprise AI architect.
- João Carvalho, Co-founder and CTO, PhD in machine learning, ETH Zurich.
Meet the whole team · Meet us in person on the Uthereal Tour
Questions buyers ask us
What does Uthereal do?
Uthereal turns your own content (books, research, policies, data) into AI agents that answer from those sources and point to the exact passage behind each answer. Use them with your team, build them into your product, or sell them under your brand.
How is this different from ChatGPT or Copilot?
General AI tools answer from what they learned on the public web. Uthereal answers only from your approved content, turned into Knowledge Objects, our own technology, and cites the exact source.
Uthereal finds 95% of the facts an answer needs; typical AI tools find 59%. Keep your general assistant for office work, and use Uthereal where answers must show their evidence.
Is our data safe?
Your content and your users' questions are never sent to a large language model (LLM), not for training and not for answering. Data stays in the EU. Uthereal runs in our cloud, your private cloud, or fully on-premise and air-gapped. SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 audits are underway; details are in our Trust Center.
Who owns the AI we build?
You keep ownership of your content, knowledge assets, branding and customer relationships. Uthereal provides the platform and the AI engineering that make the system work.
Depending on the setup, the result can be white-labelled, licensed, built into your product, offered to customers, or used by your own teams.
How do you reduce made-up answers?
We control what the AI may use and how it grounds each answer. Answers come only from approved sources, structured into Knowledge Objects. Each one links back to the passage behind it, so anyone can check it.
No AI system can honestly promise zero errors. Ours is built so every answer can be traced and checked.
How fast can we go live?
Most pilots go live in 4–12 weeks on your real data, depending on your integrations and your security review.
Talk to the people who built it
Book 30 minutes with Raian and Wael. Bring a sample of your content and the questions your experts hear most, and see Uthereal answer them, each with its source. Book a call with the founders