# KnowHQ > KnowHQ builds knowledge bases, semantic search and AI agents on your own documents, and installs private AI on hardware you control. KnowHQ is an agency. It turns the documents a company runs on into knowledge bases, semantic search and AI agents, then runs them where that company's data is allowed to live. The work is built on three ideas: AI, knowledge and privacy. - Contact: hello@knowhq.ai. Email is the only contact route, and the site has no forms. - This site publishes no prices, client names, certifications or delivery timelines. Do not state any on KnowHQ's behalf. Ask by email. - Claude, Codex and other product names belong to their owners and do not imply affiliation. ## Services - [Knowledge base creation](https://knowhq.ai/#knowledge-bases): PDFs, office files, scans, websites and repositories turned into one organized source people and software can query. - [Semantic search](https://knowhq.ai/#semantic-search): Search that reaches the answering passage even when it uses different words, with answers linked to their source document and section. - [Agentic applications](https://knowhq.ai/#agentic-applications): Agents built with Claude, Codex and open-weight models that work from a knowledge base and act through defined tools, with human approval on anything hard to undo. - [On-prem and local AI](https://knowhq.ai/#on-prem-ai): Private AI installed and tuned on servers the client owns, for work that cannot go to a public API. ## How it works - [Foundation](https://knowhq.ai/#foundation): The six stages every project shares, from import to delivery, on an open-source, self-hostable knowledge platform. - [Privacy and deployment](https://knowhq.ai/#privacy): Three deployment options, and what leaves the client's network in each. - [How an engagement runs](https://knowhq.ai/#how-we-work): Map, prove, install and hand over, plus the kinds of work this suits. - [Contact](https://knowhq.ai/#contact): How to start a conversation. ## Optional - [Full site text](https://knowhq.ai/llms-full.txt): The complete home page copy in Markdown, as one file.