Chat with your files
Drop files into a conversation and ask. They are read on the person’s own device.
- PDF, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, CSV, images
- Up to 10 files a message, 25 MB each
- Scans read in Arabic and English
The whole product, in a hundred seconds.
A day’s work at a sample logistics company, from sign-in to the admin console. Nothing here is a mock-up.
Open AE-1Try it. Pick a chapter to jump there, or click along the line.
Silent film, sample dataOne place for the day’s work.
Eight things your people would otherwise do in eight tools, most of them outside your walls.
Memory
AE-1 keeps the facts and preferences each person tells it, for that person only.
- Kept per person
- Seen and edited in Settings
- Thinking level chosen per question
Web search
Off until an administrator turns it on and chooses the provider. Answers cite the pages they used.
- Off by default
- SearXNG, Brave, Tavily or Bing-compatible
- Citations in the answer
Connectors
Each person signs in to their own account, so AE-1 sees only what they already can.
- Google Workspace, read-only
- Microsoft 365, writes need an Allow
- Figma, and any MCP server
Skills
Your team writes down how a job is done once. AE-1 follows it every time.
- Written in plain language
- Shared after review
- Eight assistant templates to start from
Artifacts
Pages, charts, diagrams and code open beside the conversation, in a panel with no network access.
- Kept in versions
- Shared inside the workspace
- Sandboxed from the network
Decks and documents
Finished files, typeset on your server. Arabic reads right to left in every one.
- PDF, Word, Excel and PowerPoint
- Three house styles
- Fonts built in, nothing fetched
Messages and schedules
Team chat with AE-1 as a contact, and prompts that run on their own every day, week or month.
- Direct messages and groups of up to 50
- Daily, weekly or monthly runs
- Results land in History
Chat with your files
Drop files into a conversation and ask. They are read on the person’s own device.
- PDF, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, CSV, images
- Up to 10 files a message, 25 MB each
- Scans read in Arabic and English
Memory
AE-1 keeps the facts and preferences each person tells it, for that person only.
- Kept per person
- Seen and edited in Settings
- Thinking level chosen per question
Web search
Off until an administrator turns it on and chooses the provider. Answers cite the pages they used.
- Off by default
- SearXNG, Brave, Tavily or Bing-compatible
- Citations in the answer
Connectors
Each person signs in to their own account, so AE-1 sees only what they already can.
- Google Workspace, read-only
- Microsoft 365, writes need an Allow
- Figma, and any MCP server
Skills
Your team writes down how a job is done once. AE-1 follows it every time.
- Written in plain language
- Shared after review
- Eight assistant templates to start from
Artifacts
Pages, charts, diagrams and code open beside the conversation, in a panel with no network access.
- Kept in versions
- Shared inside the workspace
- Sandboxed from the network
Decks and documents
Finished files, typeset on your server. Arabic reads right to left in every one.
- PDF, Word, Excel and PowerPoint
- Three house styles
- Fonts built in, nothing fetched
Messages and schedules
Team chat with AE-1 as a contact, and prompts that run on their own every day, week or month.
- Direct messages and groups of up to 50
- Daily, weekly or monthly runs
- Results land in History
Designed in Arabic, not translated into it.صُمّم بالعربية
Most tools add Arabic at the end. AE-1 was built right to left from its first line, so mixed work reads the way your people write it.
Direction
Right to left78% Arabic letters
Type in it. A line turns right to left once three letters in ten are Arabic, so an English term inside an Arabic sentence never scrambles it.
Plurals
٣ محادثات
Form: few3 conversations
Arabic changes the noun for none, one, two, a few, many and the rest. AE-1 follows all six, on every screen.
Digits and calendar
TodayHijri, Umm al-Qura
Western or Arabic-Indic digits, Gregorian or Hijri dates. Your organisation sets the default; each person can change their own.
- Every screen mirrors. Navigation, menus and icons flip for Arabic and Urdu. Code and links always read left to right.
- Search understands Arabic. Diacritics, alef forms and Arabic-Indic digits all find the same passage.
- Files come out right. PDFs copy correctly in Arabic, and decks read right to left with their fonts inside.
Answers that show their sources.
Bring the documents your teams already rely on. AE-1 answers from them and points to the passage it used, so people can check before they act.
- Collections in PDF, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, HTML, Markdown and CSV, opened to the groups you choose
- A citation opens the document at the page, with the passage marked
- Search by keyword and by meaning, on your server
Asked
How long must drivers rest after a cross-border run?
Answered
Drivers rest at least nine hours between shifts, and eleven after a cross-border run, counted from when the vehicle is handed back.
Source 1 Page 14
Driver handbook.pdf
Shifts are planned by the depot the evening before. A driver rests for at least nine hours between two shifts. Rest is taken away from the vehicle wherever the depot has a rest room.
Easy for IT to run.
One program and one file. The first run opens a setup page and tests your model before it saves.
Your server
- 1program, with the interface inside it
- 1configuration file
- 0outbound connections until you add one
- 6interface languages, two of them right to left
$ ae1 config defaults > ae1.toml
$ ae1 --config ae1.toml config check
$ ae1 --config ae1.toml serve
# then, whenever you like
$ ae1 doctor
$ ae1 audit verify- Models
- Any OpenAI-compatible server you run: vLLM, TGI, llama.cpp, Ollama
- Packaging
- Static Linux binaries for x86-64 and ARM, a minimal container image, Compose and Helm kits
- Storage
- An embedded database. Nothing else to install
- Watching it
- Health and readiness endpoints, Prometheus metrics, OpenTelemetry traces
- Backups
- Taken while it runs, checked on restore
Built to pass your security review.
What your security team will ask, and what AE-1 does about each one.
Inside your network
Nothing phones home
No telemetry, no licence server, no update checks. AE-1 never contacts Sharq.
- Every outbound address is set by an administrator
- Fonts, OCR and PDF engines are built in
- Each model server is labelled inside or outside your network
- No shell in the container image
Your sign-in
People sign in the way they already do, and leave the day they are removed from your directory.
- OpenID Connect: Entra ID, Okta, Keycloak, Google Workspace
- SCIM 2.0 for users and groups
- Admin, auditor, member and viewer roles
- Roles granted from directory groups
Access by group
Administrators decide which models, documents and connectors each group may use.
- Model lists and defaults per group
- Models cleared for sensitive documents
- Usage and cost by group, with daily quotas
- Conversations deleted after the days you set
A sealed audit trail
Every access is written to a record that is chained entry to entry. The database refuses edits and deletions.
- Verified in the console or from the command line
- Sent to your SIEM: signed webhooks, syslog over TLS, JSON lines
- Who, when and which page; never what was asked
- Legal hold for a person’s data
Questions IT and security teams ask.
Anything missing, ask us directly. We reply within one business day.
Does AE-1 need the internet?
No. It makes no outbound connection until an administrator adds one: a model server, your identity provider, a connector. With model servers inside your network, no conversation leaves it.
Which models does it use?
Yours. AE-1 ships no model. It connects to any server with an OpenAI-compatible API, such as vLLM, TGI, llama.cpp or Ollama, and administrators choose which models each group can use.
Where are conversations stored?
In AE-1’s own database on your server. Administrators can have conversations deleted automatically a set number of days after they were last used.
Can people only see what they are allowed to?
Yes. Document collections are opened to groups by an administrator, and each person connects their own Google or Microsoft account, so AE-1 can reach only what that person already can.
Which languages does the interface speak?
Six: Arabic, English, Urdu, Hindi, Spanish and Russian. Arabic and Urdu run right to left. AE-1 answers in the language of each question.
How does our security team check it?
The audit record can be verified from the console or the command line and exported to your SIEM. Metrics carry no customer content, and the security overview that ships with AE-1 lists what it connects to and what it does not yet do.
Try it today. Run it on your own server next.
The free workspace at chat.withsharq.com is the same program. A pilot puts it inside your network, on your models and your documents.