SurfSense

Category: AI Assistants & Search · Free to use

Free open-source NotebookLM + Perplexity hybrid — research across 13+ connected sources.

SurfSense is a free, open-source AI research agent that fuses NotebookLM + Perplexity into one self-hosted powerhouse. Connect 13+ sources (Slack, Notion, GitHub, Linear, Gmail, Jira, Confluence, Discord, YouTube, your files, the live web) and ask anything — it builds hierarchical indices, retrieves cited evidence, generates podcasts, and writes deep reports across every connected workspace. BYO LLM (OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Ollama). 100% free, Apache-licensed.

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