SurfSense

Teams that want NotebookLM-style research over their own material often hit a wall: the tool is closed, tied to one model, and cut off from the apps where work actually happens.

SurfSense is an open source AI research agent that works as a NotebookLM alternative for teams.

You connect the LLM of your choice to your internal knowledge sources, then chat with it alongside your colleagues.

The list of connectors is long.

SurfSense reaches search engines, Google Drive, Gmail, Google Calendar, Slack, Microsoft Teams, Discord, Notion, Confluence, BookStack, Jira, Linear, ClickUp, Airtable, GitHub, YouTube, Luma, Circleback, Elasticsearch and Obsidian, with more planned.

That coverage matters if your notes, tickets and chats are scattered across several products.

Because the project is open source and described as highly customizable, you can adapt the research agent to your own setup instead of accepting a fixed workflow.