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SharePoint search engine and SharePoint search tools that return one cited answer
SharePoint is where a huge amount of company knowledge ends up, and its search is the thing people complain about most. Results skew to whatever site you are standing in, the ranking rarely surfaces the current version of a document, and refining a query means learning the advanced search syntax rather than just asking the question. So people give up, open Teams, and ask a colleague instead.
One search · cited answers · permission-aware
The deeper problem is that the answer usually is not only in SharePoint. The policy is in a SharePoint doc, the exception to it was agreed in a Slack thread, and the ticket that implemented it is in Jira. Microsoft 365 search sees the first one. InSearch searches SharePoint and your other apps in the same query and writes the answer with citations back to the exact documents, so you get the whole picture instead of a third of it, scoped to what you are already allowed to open.
Microsoft shops usually compare this against the native assistant first, which is what our Microsoft Copilot alternatives page covers, alongside SharePoint agents and their licensing. If you want the documented reasons rather than the symptoms, we broke down why SharePoint search is so bad against Microsoft's own published limits. Because answers also live outside Microsoft 365, an intranet search engine that reads past the intranet and searching across all company apps bring the rest of the stack into the same query.
Cited to source docs
Permission-aware · never trains on your data
Why it works
What your team gets with SharePoint search
Ask, do not query
Plain English instead of advanced search syntax and refiners. You ask the question you actually have and get the answer, not a results page to work through.
Beyond the tenant
An answer can cite a SharePoint document next to a Slack thread and a Jira ticket, so cross-app questions come back complete in one query.
Permission-aware
SharePoint site and item permissions are inherited and enforced at query time, so nobody sees a document they could not already open.
What it handles
One search, a cited answer, scoped to you
InSearch searches across every connected app, checks your permissions, and writes one clear answer with citations back to the exact source documents.
- Answers from SharePoint with cited documents
- Searches Slack, Drive, Notion, Confluence and Jira in the same query
- Plain English questions instead of advanced search syntax
- Respects SharePoint site and item-level permissions
- Never trains on your Microsoft 365 content
Written answer
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Only sources you can access
Why InSearch
One search across every app, with a cited answer
Not eight separate search boxes, not a wall of blue links. InSearch unifies your apps and returns one written answer with citations, scoped to exactly what you can see.
One search, every app
Drive, Slack, Notion, Confluence, Gmail, Jira and Salesforce searched in a single query, so you stop opening a different search box for each tool.
A cited answer
A written answer in plain language with inline citations back to the exact source docs, so you can trust it and verify it instead of reading a page of links.
Permission-aware
It inherits and enforces each source's access controls at query time, so every person only ever sees answers from content they can already open. It never trains on your data.
Good questions
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One search across all your company apps, a clear cited answer, scoped to exactly what each person can see, and never trained on your data.
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