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 "name": "Nouswise",
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 "category": "IT & Productivity",
 "task": "Personal productivity & research",
 "summary": "AI research agent that answers only from a library you curate — your documents plus vetted sources — with reports, flashcards and audio recaps on every tier, and MCP tools, web search and a shared workspace only from Pro up. Built for knowledge-intensive and regulated organisations: SOC 1 / SOC 2 Type I/II, data in Europe or the US, and an on-premises install for confidential material. The “100% verifiable, zero fabrication” claim is the vendor's own.",
 "best_for": "knowledge-heavy teams that need every answer traceable to a library they control — policy and public-sector units, compliance, legal, grants and research desks — where an unsourced answer is worse than no answer. The supporting infrastructure is aimed at exactly that reader. That means SOC 1 / SOC 2 Type I/II, encryption in transit and at rest, data held in Europe or the United States, dedicated data centres in a region you choose, and a full on-premises install. The World Bank's AVA is their reference deployment, live since August 2025, and it is the clearest statement of what the product is for: if the answer is not in the curated library, it does not get made up",
 "skip_if": "you want one assistant for everything — the entire design here is refusal to answer outside your library, which is the point for a compliance desk and an obstacle for everyone else. Skip it too if your procurement needs a firm number today: Enterprise is quote-only and the two published tiers appear at two different prices on two of their own pages. And check your volumes against the tier before you commit — if you have thousands of documents, or bursty weeks that would blow through 25 reports a day, the individual plans do not reach and you are into Pro or a sales conversation",
 "honest_knock": "Their own site does not agree with itself about what this costs, and we have now checked that twice. The pricing page says Essential 19.99$/month and Pro 49.99$/month; the homepage, read the same day, shows a pricing block with $10.00 and $40.00. We put the gap to Nouswise, and on 18 Aug 2026 their partner manager answered that the homepage figures are a counter animation and that a normal browser with JavaScript enabled would show 19.99 and 49.99. We did exactly that check the same day — an ordinary browser, JavaScript on, waiting for the animation to settle — and the homepage still read $10.00 for Essential and $40.00 for Professional. So the gap is real, the vendor's own explanation for it did not hold, and neither page flags the other. Get the number in writing for the tier and the billing period you want before you put a card in, because there is a documented chance of paying double what a landing page just promised you.\n\nThe headline claim needs the same care. The homepage says “100% Verifiable AI Answers” and that answers are “solely drawn from the provided sources, reducing any fact fabrication to zero”. That is Nouswise describing Nouswise: nobody independent has tested it and neither have we. Grounding an answer in a curated library genuinely does cut invention, but it does not make retrieval, ranking or summarising error-free, and it cannot make an answer better than the library it came from. If your library is thin, outdated or one-sided, a confident grounded answer is still the wrong answer — with a citation attached. Two other numbers on that page, the 25% of the workweek spent searching and the 2.4 billion hours a year inside the Fortune 500, carry no source on the page at all.\n\nThree smaller things worth knowing. The source ceilings are low for organisational use — 50 documents on Starter, 300 on Essential — and unlimited sources only start at Pro. The per-day limits on reports, flashcards and quizzes carry an asterisk explained only as “Limits are accumulative”, which tells you the allowances add up but not what happens once you reach the ceiling. And the page has a visible rough edge: a trial banner written as “first 30 days enterprise plan are free trial if you book now”. That is a fair signal about how closely the commercial pages are maintained — the kind of place a stale price hides.",
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  "status": "public",
  "entry_price": "$19.99",
  "entry_price_terms": "a month and Pro $49.99, both billed monthly",
  "from_price_usd_month": 19.99,
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   {
    "name": "Starter",
    "price": "0$/month",
    "includes": "100 sources, 100 MB file size, 5 audio recap/day, Discord support"
   },
   {
    "name": "Essential",
    "price": "19.99$/month",
    "includes": "300 sources, 300 MB file size, 20 audio recap/day, Discord+email support"
   },
   {
    "name": "Pro",
    "price": "49.99$/month (also printed 49,99$)",
    "includes": "unlimited sources, 2 GB file size, 120 audio recap/day, Discord+email support"
   },
   {
    "name": "Enterprise",
    "price": "Contact us for custom plan",
    "includes": "unlimited sources/file size/audio recap, SLA support, custom workflow"
   }
  ],
  "plans_source": "summarised from pricing.notes; every plan name and amount appears verbatim in those notes",
  "notes": "(2026-08-12, read on their own pricing page; re-verified 2026-08-26 and again 2026-09-05) Four tiers, billed monthly: Starter at 0$/month, Essential at 19.99$/month and Pro at 49.99$/month, printed as “49,99$” with a comma on the page itself. Enterprise is “Contact us for custom plan”, with no figure at all. A banner offers the first 30 days of the Enterprise plan free if you book a demo now. The Monthly / Yearly toggle advertised Yearly (-20%) on 12 Aug, was absent on 18 Aug, and has read Yearly (-17%) since 26 Aug. What it does not do is print an annual figure — with Yearly selected, every paid card still reads “billed monthly” at the monthly price, so the page offers 17% off and never says off what. Nouswise confirmed on 18 Aug that annual billing exists, so ask for the annual rate in writing before you commit to it. What you get per tier is capped rather than priced separately, and two rows moved between 26 Aug and 5 Sep: sources now run 100 on Starter (was 50) and 300 on Essential, unlimited above that; and audio recap now runs 5 / 20 / 120 per day plus unlimited on Enterprise, so the old anomaly where Essential's ceiling sat above Pro's is gone. File size runs 100 MB / 300 MB / 2 GB / unlimited. Video recap and discover sources carry a tick on all four tiers. Reports, flashcards, quizzes, mind maps, deep research, data tables, infographics and slide decks run 8 / 25 / 120 per day, unlimited on Enterprise, under a footnote reading “Limits are accumulative”. Projects are unlimited everywhere. Three capabilities are not metered but switched off lower down: MCP tools, web search and the shared workspace carry a cross on Starter and Essential and appear from Pro up. Six more are Enterprise-only — dashboard and analytics, knowledge gap analysis, access management, custom data sources, connectors and enterprise data security carry a cross on Starter, Essential and Pro alike. Customer support is Discord on Starter, Discord + email on both Essential and Pro, and an SLA on Enterprise. Workflow customization reads Limited on all three paid-visible tiers and Custom on Enterprise. Read the caps before the price: on the individual tiers the source limit and the per-day ceilings, not the monthly fee, decide whether this fits. Re-verified 12 October 2026 on nouswise.com/pricing: Starter 0$, Essential 19.99$ and Pro 49.99$ a month (the Pro card still prints both '49.99$' and '49,99$'), Enterprise 'Contact us for custom plan', the Yearly (-17%) toggle still without an annual figure, and the plan-comparison caps unchanged. The homepage source read the same day still carries $10.00 for Essential and $40.00 for Professional.",
  "verified_at": "2026-10-12",
  "source_url": null
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   "label": "Annual commitment",
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 "compare_with": {
  "name": "Claude",
  "why": "the comparison most readers will actually make, because Essential at 19.99$/month lands within pennies of Claude Pro at $20/mo (about $17 billed annually, our dossier). For that money Claude gives you Projects, where you upload your own files and ask questions over them, plus a general assistant for everything else. Nouswise deliberately gives you less: answers only from the library you curate, and no general knowledge to fall back on. That restriction is the product — it is what a compliance, policy or legal reader is buying, together with on-premises deployment, SOC 1 / SOC 2 Type I/II and data residency in a region you pick, none of which Claude Pro offers a single user. The trade runs the other way too: Claude has no 50-or-300-source ceiling and no per-day cap on reports, and it will answer the question that falls outside your documents. So the honest split is not which is better but which failure you can live with — an answer that reaches beyond your vetted sources, or no answer at all"
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  "disclosure": "Where purchase.affiliate is true, purchase.handoff_url is an affiliate link: AIBuilder Marketplace may earn a commission at no extra cost to the buyer. Commission never changes what a record says, and products are not ranked by commission. Where it is false the link is the vendor's plain site."
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  "note": "A rebuild is not a new measurement: pricing.verified_at is the date that matters."
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  "Contract terms (cancellation, data export, data location, minimum seats) are not researched as separate fields; pricing.notes mentions them only where the vendor's pricing page does.",
  "No computable price rules yet: cost at a given team size cannot be calculated for this product.",
  "Not tested hands-on by us: what the product does comes from the vendor's pages and our reading of them."
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   "question": "Can a customer cancel at any time, and what happens to an annual plan that is cancelled mid-term?",
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   "key": "data_export",
   "question": "Which data can a customer export, in which formats, on which plans?",
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   "key": "data_location",
   "question": "Where is customer data stored, and can a customer choose the region?",
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   "detail": "No explicit support for purchases by AI agents on the vendor's own pages.",
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