Meet your team's collective brain. Save hours by finding distributed information at a glance, across all your tools. Our AI-powered semantic search gives your team the most relevant answers to their questions, instantly.
Hi everyone 👋
I’m Sebastian, one of the founders of Collato. We’re building the AI search engine for product teams — think of it as ChatGPT but with your work apps.
We’re so excited to finally launch on Product Hunt–big thank you to @chrismessina for hunting us and providing invaluable product advice along the way!
🎉 To share our excitement, we’re offering a 90-day free trial for the next 48 hours.
We believe we’ve built the solution to THE PROBLEM of today's remote, information-loaded, fast-moving, and tool-swamped way of working:
❓How can employees find the information they need without spending hours in alignment meetings or searching across dozens of tools❓
Meet Collato: Your product team's collective brain. We built Collato to give product managers one space to make information instantly accessible to anyone on their team who needs it.
Instead of having artifacts, documents, or information buried across tools (McKinsey says employees waste 1.8 hours searching for information every day 🤯), you can drop them into your knowledge map 🕸 where they’ll be connected and organized. Stakeholders can get instant, human-like answers to any product-related questions. 🪄
Originally built on OpenAI, we’ve now built an in-house semantic search engine based on state-of-the-art AI models. This allows us to be more reliable, scalable, faster, and meet German data regulations. 💪
Use cases
Collato can answer questions about your product, help you build a searchable knowledge base, and streamline onboarding. Here are some more ways to use Collato:
🔍 Product discovery and delivery: Collato provides a bird’s eye view of tasks and instantly organizes your product docs, so you don’t have to jump from one tool to another.
📑 Structure user research: Connect user insights and market trends to make user-centric product decisions with all the answers at your fingertips.
💡 Project wiki: Our AI-powered search gives stakeholders instant answers to project-related questions, with automated summaries providing detailed context at a glance.
🧠 Magnify your product smarts: Structure your product research and make data-driven decisions with ease. Quickly detect the patterns that matter most, so you can build world-class products.
Coming soonGet answers in Slack
Integrate Collato’s search engine into Slack. Team members can ask any question and get instant, bite-sized answers without ever leaving the tool.
Connect from your browser
Build your knowledge map without ever switching tabs. Turn information from the web into accessible knowledge in seconds.
Integrating more apps & formats
We currently support integrations with Google Drive, Confluence, Figma, Jira, and Miro, and we’re currently working on Notion and PDF files. Drop us a comment in the thread if you have any favorites for us to build soon!
Give Collato a try, and please let us know what you think in the comments!
https://collato.com/
Sebastian
@chrismessina@sebabytes Been waiting so long for this! Collato genuinely brings so much joy and ease to my work. My favorite part? It saves me time so I can spend it actually connecting, innovating, and being creative with my coworkers.
Here's more reasons to love:
⚡️ Gives your team instant (and secure) access to relevant information from all of your tools.
🔎 Helps you find everything in one place – instead of manually searching through cluttered tools.
🍦 Provides you with instant, bite-sized answers from our AI-powered search to any project-related questions.
@chrismessina@sebabytes
Add one more use case! ☝️ Getting instant answers to be extra sharp for launch day 💅
Prior to today, our team compiled our collective knowledge documents, spreadsheet, product FAQs so everyone is aligned and ready to answer YOUR burning question accurately and quickly.
So excited to be part of this! 🤩
What I personally like most about it:
💸 it’s free. No hidden costs or limited feature scope.
💡 it’s self-explaining. No demo call is needed to find success.
🔒 it’s safe. Try it with sample artifacts before connecting company information.
🏗️ it builds on top of your existing apps and lets you sync your information.
Give it a try!
Congrats on the launch! The product looks amazing and definitely happy about the 90-day free trial! How do you make sure Collato find the most up-to-date & correct information? Unfortunately, the same info tends to be saved in multiple places with varying accuracy...
@maija_riuttamaeki Hi Maija - thank you for the kind words! The information you sync to Collato is pulled from your original tool. We treat this as a one way street: any changes made in the original file is reflected onto Collato, not the other way around.
This means that you and your team can continue work as usual in your preferred tools, and we'll keep up with those changes.
Even if you import various versions of the same artifact, we'll find you the best search match based on the quality and relevance of the content inside :) Our visual map also gives you the affirmation that you're in the right ballpark because you see the immediate connections.
Let me know what you think!
@maija_riuttamaeki That's a very valid concern. Our search results are weighted firstly on relevance and then recency. That means, if conflicting information is saved in multiple places, the most recent document will be ranked higher.
We are continually improving and iterating our product and would be extremely appreciative of any feedback you have.
Thanks @john_morrison1 and @gracehur! That sounds to be a smart solution! I'll see how Collato assesses the relevancy of our docs and will let you know if I find any problems.
@inderpreet_singh1 Appreciate your feedback Inderpreet! We have been enjoying it internally as well and hope to see it brings value to product teams out there! 🙌🏼
Salutations ! Bravo on the launch of Collato on Product Hunt! 🥳
Looks amazing!!
I really hope this product becomes popular and teams start implementing it!
Develop it and let everything work out!
@ilyayaroshevichqa thanks so much for sharing your feedback! We're thrilled to see that you and so many other find it useful, our hearts are so full! 🌟
@ilyayaroshevichqa The team has worked hard to get where we are already. And still, so many cool things to come. Would love to hear any ideas you have.
@ilyayaroshevichqa Thank you so much! It's been a labor of love 🤖❤️ P.S. we use this internally too to keep track of how a newly built feature ought to behave vs not. And also to report back issues/gaps to follow up on prior to release.
Could this be helpful in your day to day as a QA Engineer?
@ilyayaroshevichqa We haven't localized our platform yet, but generally speaking - we found some success in asking the semantic search questions in German. We have yet to test questions in all native languages (We're an international team of 19, and we represent 13 different countries / over 12 languages.)
TDLR: The results are strongest right now in English.
@tornike_phkhovelishvili Thanks for the feedback 🙌 Integrating any tool is really straight-forward, inside Collato you simply select the tool, click "connect" and it sends you to the tool for giving Collato permission to access the data you want to include. Essentially just two clicks 😊 New data is typically searchable within a minute.
@sebabytes I see.
I would assume that data protection will be important part for the users as Collato will get a lot of sensitive internal information. How do you ensure that users can have peace of mind on that?
@tornike_phkhovelishvili Exactly, that's a top priority for us 💪 To ensure that we avoid using external AI services and so documents stay within the private network of our secure data center.
@matcha_anil Hi Anil! 🙂 I see you also worked on three products based on GPT models. Your feedback would be much appreciated. Please give us a try and let us know what you think! 🙌🏼
Congrats @sebabytes and team, this is very cool! This would save so much time - searchability within individual tools is great, but we work across so many tools all the time that it's hard to even know where to look. This seems to solve for that. I imagine there are a ton of use cases outside product management - are there future plans to expand the focus?
@daniel_ollgaard Thanks Daniel! We will definitely expand it beyond product management eventually but for now, having this focus really helps us to get all the details right 👌
@sebabytes@daniel_ollgaard Our ICP was focused on PMs but we definitely plan to expand this in the future. We will focus on integrating with more tools in the coming months so we can cover even more use cases. We would be very interested to hear any ideas you have.
@sebabytes@john_morrison1 that makes a lot of sense, focus early on really helps build a solid user experience. Off the top of my head, sales and customer success seem like great use cases. It could get rid of the frustrating, but necessary "let me check with my team" answer during sales, onboarding or general customer conversations. I'll definitely let you know when other things come to mind!
@sebabytes@daniel_ollgaard Great idea, I think sales and customer success teams would benefit greatly. Hopefully, "let me check with my team" becomes "let me check with collato" 😉
@chris_sarca Thanks for the support Chris and wishing you lot of success as well with your upcoming product hunt launch! 🙌🏼 do you already see some features that you could leverage in your company? 😊
@kartal_erkoc1 Our project is pretty huge, with tons of things that can easily get frustrating to explain over and over again, so the project wiki right now seems the most useful.
This is just amazing! Sounds like a huge relief for people like me who are just trying to keep everything in mind like all the time 😬 Congrats on your launch! 🥳
@kate_kovbii Thank you so much! Collato is our humble contribution to creating a more human-centric future of work where people can focus on doing their best work instead of searching for information 🚀
@irina_haupt I am a very messy worker 🤭 To find files I use Everything (pc app) or Raycast (mac). But these dont search for content and there is no AI help. Your product looks like a great search engine.
@ardadiker Hahaha, you're not alone, I can be too! But Collato has definitely made my life easier and I hope that is something we can do for you and other users as well. Let us know how much time our search saves you as soon as you've tried it! :)
@irina_haupt@ardadiker Here's a secret - me too! 🙈
As a PM, I feel so much guilt whenever I don't have every little piece of info together. It feel like I'm the bottle-neck for my team (whether or not it's objectively true).
When I try structuring information and processes, it somewhat works, but I exert so much mental energy and time to upkeep the digital workspaces and files.
Using Collato with our internal team, it now feels like I can find and communicate the right amount of information and context, regardless of how many (messy) digital roommates I share the space with.
I love the current trend of breaking up rigid silos! Moving knowledge and navigation into fluid searches that also condense results will be a huge jump in productivity.
We’re leveraging same principles at VoiceLine as well, you got my upvote for sure!
@fantivecreations Thank you very much! It's so important to break down these silos as they are one of the leading causes of frustration in the workplace! We try to make the future of work more human-centric. This is our humble contribution 🧘
@fantivecreations Totally agree, especially in an era where teams like to choose their preferred tools, which, can create even more scattered information.
@shubham_pratap Many thanks Shubham! 🙏🏼 Wishing you lot of success with your platform for safety as well! And please let us know how we can support when you would like to give it a try 😊
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