Governed AI for institutional knowledge
One living evidence object transforms as you scroll—from approved sources to a cited answer or a visible abstention.
Nothing autoplays · The evidence transformation follows your scroll
Governed AI for institutional knowledge
Follow the same source-to-evidence path in a motion-free format.
01 / Sources
Books, policies, manuals, transcripts and archives enter as rights-reviewed source records.
02 / Versions
The same source particles reorganise into deterministic passages with exact typed locators.
03 / Publication
Passages form one immutable snapshot. The sculpture stops while publication is sealed.
04 / Retrieval
A question searches the permitted snapshot and ranked candidate groups rise from the same evidence object.
05 / Evidence
The qualifying passage moves into a cited result. When nothing qualifies, Setu returns a visible abstention.
Why Setu
A governed answer layer
Institutions already hold valuable policies, manuals, courses, publications and archives. The challenge is making that knowledge usable without losing authority, context or accountability.1
Product
Working surfaces, not concept art
Setu is built for institutions that own or steward knowledge. Administrators govern access and publication; knowledge teams review sources and evaluation cases; members and invited audiences receive cited answers.
This collection explains how approved knowledge becomes an answer that remains connected to its evidence.
01 / 04
Ask naturally, review the response state, then open the exact passage, locator and source version.
Synthetic product tour · no customer content, customer logos or achieved quality metrics are represented.
Solutions
Generic by design
Setu is not tied to a book, personality or tradition. It operates around reviewed knowledge spaces, published source versions and the permissions of the people using them.
Make approved policies and manuals answerable without severing the source.
Procedure · entitlement · exception · evidenceHelp learners and researchers inspect the passage behind each explanation.
Course · publication · archive · citationOpen reviewed collections through page- or section-level evidence.
Book · edition · transcript · locatorShare one approved snapshot through a revocable, time-bound pilot link.
Bounded link · disclosed retention · auditHow it works
Simple to use · explicit underneath
See the same product path in plain language or at a safe technical level. The public explanation stops short of proprietary prompts, tuning and infrastructure details.
Decide what Setu may use.
Freeze the reviewed collection.
Search only knowledge this user may reach.
Open the supporting passage.
Evaluate answers, abstentions and citations against the same version.
Security & governance
Control is part of the answer path—from who can publish, to which snapshot can be searched, to what an auditor may inspect.
Roles and permissions resolve at platform, organization and knowledge-space level before an action begins.
Published snapshots pin exact reviewed source versions, so later uploads cannot rewrite an earlier evidence path.
Evidence handles are resolved by the service; model output cannot create a trusted source record.
Embedding and generation remain disabled by default for a snapshot until the required processing approval exists.
Authorized readers see scoped governance metadata without routine exposure of source text, questions or answers.
Experience links are snapshot-bound, expiring, revocable and retention-disclosed before a visitor asks.
Current implementation boundary: local closed-pilot controls are functional. Production identity, durable public operations, processor review and deployment hardening remain release gates—not marketing claims.
Working proof
See the answer contract in action
This is a functioning synthetic interaction, not a prerecorded success state. Ask the unsupported astronomy question and Setu will return an actual citation-free abstention.
Not connected to a real collection. No live model is required for the prepared response.
Try the grounded interaction
This first build uses copyright-safe synthetic content. It proves the contract before a rights-cleared knowledge snapshot is published.
Synthetic sample ready. No live model is being called.Answer to: “What is Setu designed to do?”
Setu is designed to give concise answers that stay visibly connected to cited evidence.
Resources
Start with the right boundaries
These practical guides describe what is available now, what an institution needs to prepare and how a real evaluation should be designed.
Follow a question from approved source to exact citation, publication, evaluation and bounded sharing.
Open product tour ↗Start with rights-cleared sources, a named administrator, a knowledge manager, qualified reviewers and real pilot questions.
Review the checklist ↗Plan independent review of retrieval, exact quotations, claim support, abstention and usefulness against one snapshot.
Read the approach ↗The current pilot supports reviewed UTF-8 text and human-reviewed, page-preserving PDF OCR—not autonomous capture.
See source requirements ↗Questions worth asking
Institutions that own or steward knowledge and need a governed way to publish, search and verify it. Setu is currently a closed adult pilot, not a consumer signup product.
Setu withholds the unsupported answer and returns zero citations. Abstention is a designed product outcome, not a hidden error.
No. The current system can return deterministic source-based answers, a source-based fallback, validated AI-assisted answers or an abstention.
The current pilot supports reviewed UTF-8 text and human-reviewed, page-preserving PDF OCR. Autonomous crawling and media transcription are not implemented.
No. Organizations request access. Approved users receive assigned access after the organization, source readiness and identity boundary are reviewed.
External embedding and generation are disabled by default and require exact approval for a published snapshot before content may be sent to an approved processor.
Closed institutional pilot
Start with a bounded collection, named reviewers and a real evaluation plan. We’ll help determine whether Setu is the right fit before broader rollout.