# AI landscape: search, agents, learning and the first layer https://www.explicio.com/en/docking/ Last updated: 2026-11-07 > Here you ask how your tool, your vendor or your consultancy fits with Explicio: enterprise search, assistants, agent platforms, learning platforms or consultancies. We research it and answer for each vendor in its own, evidenced words. Explicio is the first layer beneath: it draws out the knowledge that is not yet in any system, evidences it down to person and time and provides it to all of them. DOCKING · THE MAP # You ask. We answer. Does your tool, your vendor or your consultancy fit with Explicio? Enter the name — we research it, place it and answer here, in the vendor's own words. Here you ask how your tool, your vendor or your consultancy fits with Explicio: enterprise search, assistants, agent platforms, learning platforms or consultancies. We research it and answer for each vendor in its own, evidenced words. Explicio is the first layer beneath: it draws out the knowledge that is not yet in any system, evidences it down to person and time and provides it to all of them. Explicio and — do they fit together? Already answered: [→](https://www.explicio.com/en/docking/) I would like to receive the Explicio newsletter by email every Friday, on the first Friday of the month as a review of the previous month. Inside: topics around knowledge in the company, new articles and guides, new Explicio features and connectors. Unsubscribe at any time with one click. We use your address only to send you the answer. The newsletter only with the tick. You can withdraw your consent at any time with effect for the future (e.g. via the unsubscribe link in every email). Details and right to object in the [privacy notice for the map & newsletter](https://www.explicio.com/en/andock-datenschutz/) . Thank you. We will research it and answer here on the map. Thank you. Someone has already asked about this vendor — we are on it and will answer here on the map. Already answered: [→](https://www.explicio.com/en/docking/) We will send you a link right away to confirm this question — a separate one for every question. After that we will write to you as soon as the answer is ready. Please check your entries: a name made of letters, digits and . - & +, the website as an address (such as example.com) — and an email address for the newsletter. Too many questions are arriving from your connection right now. Please try again in an hour. That did not work. Please try again — or write to info@explicio.com. ANSWERS ## Asked and answered. One page per vendor: the vendor in its own words, its layer, the paths through which it connects external tools and sources — and an honest answer to the question about an alternative. No answer published yet.→The first one will come from your question — at the top of this page. Every answer appears here, noting when it was asked. Is your vendor missing? Ask us — the answer will appear here, noting when it was asked. THE MAP · OUR PLACEMENT ## Many tools work with knowledge. Layer 1 makes sure it exists. Above, the tools that search, answer, act, teach and advise. Beneath, layer 1: the knowledge that so far only lives in people's heads. - FIND AND ANSWER Search and assistants Search and answer across what is stored in a company's applications. - ORCHESTRATE AND ACT Platforms for assistants and agents Bring models, tools and data together and let agents carry out tasks. - LEARNING Knowledge becomes learning content Organize knowledge and turn it into courses and learning paths. - LINKING DOCUMENTS Information management Link technical documentation and product information semantically. - ADVISE AND IMPLEMENT Strategy, training, implementation Introduce AI in projects, train teams and build solutions at the customer. ↕ every layer above can use the knowledge from layer 1 LAYER 1 · THE FOUNDATION ## Beneath: the knowledge everyone works with. Capture, prepare, evidence and provide are one layer at Explicio — and every layer above can use it through an agent interface; we set up the connection with you during onboarding. - LAYER 1 · EXPLICIO The knowledge that is not in any system yet — Capture, prepare, evidence, provide — one layer from one source. Capture Ask, record, remember a refusal — through the channels the team already uses. Prepare Link speech, images, video and documents into a knowledge graph. Evidence Every statement with its source down to person and time. Provide Answers in the chat and an interface for external agents and tools. This is our placement, not a statement by the vendors. There are no partnerships; described is what the vendors themselves publish. WHY A LAYER OF ITS OWN ## Every layer above is only as good as the knowledge beneath it. Search, agents and learning platforms solve real tasks. One thing they cannot produce themselves: knowledge nobody has written down yet. SEARCH What is there gets found An enterprise search is only as good as the content it searches. What a foreman knows but never wrote down is in no index — with any vendor. Explicio draws it out before anyone searches for it. AGENTS Acting needs evidence An agent carrying out a task relies on what it finds. Explicio gives it knowledge with its source down to person and time — and shows where two versions contradict each other or one has superseded the other. LEARNING Courses need raw material Learning paths grow out of what experienced people know. Explicio collects that knowledge continuously through the channels the team already uses — not once in an interview, but every day, asking when something is missing. HOW WE WRITE ABOUT OTHERS ## What applies to every answer. A page about another vendor is only worth as much as its honesty. So before a page appears, we secure every statement about a vendor: with its source, a screenshot, a copy in the Internet Archive and a qualified timestamp under eIDAS. - RULE 1 01 Only what they publish About a vendor we state only what it publishes itself — verbatim or translated, with address and retrieval date. If it changes its page, we change ours. - RULE 2 02 No sentence about weaknesses The pages say what a vendor is good at and what lies beneath — never what it cannot do. Anyone deciding gets a decision aid, not a put-down. - RULE 3 03 No feigned closeness No logo, no partner language. Every page states explicitly that there is no partnership — until there is one. - RULE 4 04 The path has to be true We describe which interfaces both sides offer. Where connecting takes work, the page says so: we set it up with you during onboarding. - RULE 5 05 The origin is stated A page marked “asked in …” came from a question put to us; we keep a dated record of every request. Pages we created ourselves carry no such note. QUESTIONS ## What people often ask. What does “first layer” mean? + − Before an AI can work with knowledge, the knowledge has to exist: captured, prepared, evidenced and provided. At Explicio these four steps are one layer. Search, agents and learning platforms build on it. Is Explicio a competitor of these vendors? + − Not for what they are good at. Explicio does not search external content in place and does not orchestrate models for others. It draws out the knowledge that is not written down anywhere — and every layer above needs that. Why does Explicio name other vendors here? + − Because visitors ask how Explicio fits with what they already use. The map answers that openly: who covers which layer and where Explicio docks in beneath. How are these pages made? + − From questions: someone wants to know how a tool, a vendor or a consultancy fits with Explicio. We research what the vendor publishes itself, place it and check every statement against its source before the page appears. Research is AI-assisted, checked and approved by us. Pages made this way carry the note “asked in …”. What happens to my email address? + − It is optional. If you enter one, we first send you a link to confirm this question and then the answer — nothing else; you confirm every further question separately. You receive the newsletter only if you set its own tick. We log the click on “Confirm” as evidence, kept apart from everything else. We delete an unconfirmed address after seven days and an address used only for the answer one month after it; you can unsubscribe at any time with one click. Are there partnerships with these vendors? + − No. The pages describe what both sides offer technically. If a partnership comes about, it will be shown here — not before. How does the knowledge from Explicio get into my tool? + − Through an agent interface and an MCP server: external agents ask questions and read knowledge, with their own key per client and the same rights as a person. We set up the connection with you during onboarding. I am a vendor and found a mistake — or want to dock on. + − Use the box “Did we miss something?” below your page — ideally with a link to where it is published — or write to info@explicio.com. We correct sourced remarks promptly and are glad to work out together how your product can dock onto Explicio. We are a consultancy — how do we work with Explicio? + − You can offer both: your consulting and implementation, plus Explicio as the knowledge foundation — in the EU cloud or with the Explicio Box and the Box network we operate. Invite us to the next presentation meeting with your client; the way there is below. NEXT STEP ## Build the knowledge beneath your tools. Whatever tools you use: we show you which knowledge is not yet in any of your systems — and how it reaches the place where your team works. [Request a quote](https://explicio.cloud/registrieren?weg=angebot&interesse=offen) [What Explicio is](https://www.explicio.com/en/facts/) - **Layer**: [the first — capture to provide](https://www.explicio.com/en/facts/) - **Vendors**: [info@explicio.com](mailto:info@explicio.com) - **Pricing**: [you can recalculate it](https://www.explicio.com/en/pricing/)