SmartSearch AI
The agentic AI search platformwith Aura, your built‑in AI search expert
Aura, the Adaptive Unified Retrieval Agent, sets up and tunes search in plain language, so your people and your AI agents get permission-aware search and cited answers across websites, documents and business systems.
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AI Search OpenSearch · Ranking Engine v2 · v4
OverviewSchemaConfigurationAI SearchSSR EngineAnalytics
Project detailsCore metadata, connection, and ranking engine.
- Search engine
- OpenSearch
- Version
- v4
- Ranking template
- Ranking Engine v2
- Index mode
- PRECISION
- Description
- Primary commerce catalog with hybrid relevance and semantic recall across the storefront search experience.
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Search teams at these companies have worked with the SmartSearch team
Help people find the right answer, and act on it.
Employees and customers get answers they can trust, AI agents get context they can safely use, and your team keeps search sharp without a dedicated specialist.
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Better search, without the backlog
Describe the problem in plain language. Aura prepares the fix, and you approve it before anything changes.
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Answers people act on
Every answer comes from your content and links to its source, so people stop second-guessing and re-asking.
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Safe to roll out company-wide
People only see what they are allowed to see, so security review does not stall the launch.
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Always-current content New in 4.7
Websites, SharePoint, Google Drive and Confluence stay in sync, so answers reflect today's policies.
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An API-first agentic search framework for just about any use case, industry or team.
Built to fit the systems you already run. SmartSearch AI plugs into your architecture and adapts to how your teams work, so you move faster without rebuilding your stack. Just as important, the same search becomes the foundation for your AI agents and agentic workflows.
Use cases
One platform behind every place people look for answers, from a search box to an AI agent.
Industries
Proven with search teams in regulated, high-volume and content-heavy businesses.
Teams
Technical and business teams work on the same search without stepping on each other.
Better search without waiting on a specialist.
Your team describes what people should find, or what is going wrong, in plain language. Aura reads your real configuration, explains the cause and prepares the exact fix, so improvements no longer wait in a specialist's queue. Nothing changes until someone approves it.
- Set up
- Go from a plain description to a working search project, with searchable fields chosen and semantic and hybrid search on.
- Tune
- Fix bad rankings yourself. Adjust weights, boosts, freshness and popularity, test the draft, then publish.
- Explain
- See what people search for and cannot find, with up to three testable fixes and their tradeoffs.
- Hand off
- Get developers productive sooner with answers on the query language, Java SDK, sources and endpoints.
- Chat never edits configuration. Every change goes through a review screen and an explicit approval.
- Aura only reads what you are allowed to see, and checks your access again before any change.
- Aura uses the model connection you choose, with encrypted credentials, separate from the models that power search.
Answers people can check, not just trust.
People act on the answer instead of double-checking it or asking HR, IT or support again. Search, Chat and Agentic modes answer only from your sources, every statement links to the document it came from, and the assistant says so when the evidence is not there.
- Search · Chat · Agentic modes
- Inline numbered citations
- Multi-turn memory
- Spanish questions, English sources
HR assistant How many weeks of paid parental leave do full-time employees get?
Full-time employees receive 16 weeks of paid parental leave, available to all parents after 90 days of employment1. Leave can be taken in up to two blocks within the first 12 months2.
- 1 Employees
Parental Leave Policy
SharePoint · HR Policies
Eligible full-time employees receive 16 weeks of paid parental leave after completing 90 days of service.
- 2 Employees
Employee Handbook 2026, section 4.2
Confluence · People Ops
Parental leave may be taken in up to two blocks within twelve months of the birth or placement.
Does this apply to contractors?How do I request leave?
Ask a follow-up…
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Roll out AI search without a security exception.
Confidential content stays with the people allowed to see it. Single sign-on identifies each person, document permissions apply before the model sees any text, and guardrails screen what goes in and out. Evidence Mode keeps a tamper-evident record of how each answer was produced, ready for audit and compliance review.
- SAML 2.0 · OpenID Connect
- ACLs by user, group, role, key
- Safety, PII, injection, secrets
- Evidence Mode record
Answer record Signed
- Visitor
- Signed in · employee
- Sources used
- 2 of 14 retrieved
- Access check
- Passed for both
- Input screen
- Allowed
- Output screen
- Allowed
- Configuration
- hr-assistant · v42
- Record
- Signed · tamper-evident
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Answers that reflect today's content.
Nobody gets an answer from a retired policy or a deleted page. Smart Connectors crawl the sites you choose and sync repositories on a schedule: changed pages are re-indexed, removed pages drop out, and SharePoint permissions follow the content.
- Public websites
- SharePoint · OneDrive
- Google Drive · Confluence
- Amazon S3 · GitHub
| Source | Items | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Department website | 1,208 pages | Completed |
| SharePoint policies | 412 docs | Completed |
| Google Drive FAQs | 96 files | Syncing |
Permission sync every 15 min · Current
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How SmartSearch AI works.
Every question follows the same five governed steps, so every answer is cited, permission-checked and recorded. Use the included engine, or add SmartSearch to the Elasticsearch or OpenSearch cluster you already run.
Visitors and agents
- WebsitesWordPress, site-wide
- Portals & appsREST & streaming
- AI assistantsMCP and A2A
- Teams and SMSVia integration
asksreply
SmartSearch AI Release 4.7
- REST API
- Streaming
- MCP server
- A2A
- 1 IdentifySSO, ACL scope
- 2 ScreenInput guardrails
- 3 RetrieveHybrid + rerank
- 4 GenerateYour chosen LLM
- 5 CiteInline citations
- WorkspacesDepartment bots, isolated or shared Federated, IT oversight
- AI SpiceSelf-tuning within admin safety rails Learns from real queries
- Evidence ModeSigned record of every answer Replayable, auditable
evidence ⇄ draft
reads
approved
OpenAI · Azure OpenAI · Claude · Gemini · Bedrock · Mistral · Cohere · Groq · OpenRouter · Self-hosted models
uses your model
AuraAsk in plain language Adaptive Unified Retrieval Agent
- Sets up projects and fields
- Tunes relevance and ranking
- Explains analytics
- Prepares reviewable changes
You approve every change
- Kubernetes · Docker
- AWS · DigitalOcean
- On-premises
- Installed by Weblink
permission-filtered queries
- Public websites
- SharePoint · OneDrive
- Google Drive · Confluence
- Amazon S3 · GitHub
- Uploads · bulk API
- Database change capture
sync
SmartSearch retrieval layerone query language, permission filters, hybrid fusion
- Elasticsearch / OpenSearchBuilt in, or connect your existing cluster
- Vector databaseOptional Roadmap
index + permissions
Smart ConnectorsScheduled sync, change and removal detection, SharePoint permission syncNew in 4.7
A question enters on the left, passes five governed steps, and returns as a cited answer. SmartSearch includes a search engine or connects to yours, reads only what that person may see, and records every answer. Aura is the control point: admins describe what they want, and approved changes flow into the platform.
- New in 4.7
- Via integration
- Roadmap
No lock-in. No data leaving your environment.
Bring the LLM you already trust, keep indexes, vectors and conversations where they live today, and change providers whenever it suits you.
Your model
Use the model your security team already approved, and switch as prices and models change. OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, Anthropic Claude, Google Gemini, Amazon Bedrock, Mistral, Cohere, Groq, OpenRouter or a self-hosted model, with your own keys. Content goes only to the model you configure and is never used for training.
Your cloud
Keep your data in your environment and build on what you already run. A search engine is included, or connect your existing Elasticsearch or OpenSearch with no data migration. Weblink installs and tunes it in your cloud or data center as part of a search consulting engagement.
Installed and tuned by the engineers who built it.
You get a working, tuned deployment, not a box of software. Weblink Technologies installs SmartSearch AI in your cloud or data center and tunes it with your team as part of a search consulting engagement.
Book a SmartSearch AI demo- building Elasticsearch and OpenSearch solutions
- 13+ yrs
- enterprise search engagements delivered by Weblink
- 75+
- official partner with reseller capabilities
- Elastic
What enterprise teams ask first.
What is Aura?
Aura, the Adaptive Unified Retrieval Agent, is SmartSearch AI's built-in search expert. Admins and developers describe goals in plain language; Aura reads the real configuration, explains it, and prepares exact changes that take effect only after someone approves them.
Do we need our own Elasticsearch or OpenSearch?
No. SmartSearch AI includes a search engine. Teams that already run Elasticsearch or OpenSearch can connect it instead and keep their existing indexes.
Where does our data live?
In your environment: the built-in engine deployed in your cloud or on-premises, or your existing cluster. Indexes, vectors, permissions and conversation records stay yours and can be exported through the APIs.
Is our content used to train AI models?
No. Content and conversations go only to the LLM provider you configure, under that provider's no-training terms, or to a self-hosted model.
Can each department run its own assistant?
Yes. Workspaces give each department its own assistants, content, analytics and transcripts, with knowledge isolated or shared and central IT oversight across all of them.
How do we get it?
Weblink Technologies installs SmartSearch AI in your cloud or on-premises and tunes it with your team as part of a search consulting engagement. Start with a demo.
See SmartSearch AI on your own content.
See how your people would find answers, how Aura keeps results sharp, and what an install in your environment would take.