{
  "meta": {
    "title": "KM4AI Tool Directory",
    "description": "Vendor-neutral directory of tools related to knowledge management for AI. KM4AI product entries are labeled as such; third-party entries are descriptive only.",
    "version": "0.1.0",
    "updated": "2026-07-17",
    "license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "license_name": "CC BY 4.0",
    "attribution": "KM4AI (https://km4ai.org/)",
    "canonical": "https://km4ai.org/data/tools.json",
    "formats": [
      "https://km4ai.org/data/tools.json",
      "https://km4ai.org/data/tools.csv"
    ],
    "notes": "No affiliate links. Suggest additions via the contact form on km4ai.org."
  },
  "tools": [
    {
      "id": "repository-integrators",
      "name": "Repository Integrators",
      "slug": "repository-integrators",
      "vendor": "KM4AI",
      "vendor_neutral": false,
      "category": "ingestion",
      "deployment": ["private", "customer-controlled"],
      "open_source": false,
      "pricing_tier": "advisory",
      "summary": "Connectors that crawl and sync content from SharePoint, Drive, databases, and other repositories into a governed knowledge pipeline.",
      "glossary": ["datamesh", "ai-readiness", "content-governance"],
      "guides": ["rag-readiness", "governance-provenance-permissions"],
      "url": "https://km4ai.org/#Automated_Knowledge_Transformation"
    },
    {
      "id": "ai-metadata-taggers",
      "name": "AI Metadata Taggers",
      "slug": "ai-metadata-taggers",
      "vendor": "KM4AI",
      "vendor_neutral": false,
      "category": "curation",
      "deployment": ["private", "customer-controlled"],
      "open_source": false,
      "pricing_tier": "advisory",
      "summary": "Assisted tagging that applies taxonomy and metadata so employees and AI systems can find trusted information quickly.",
      "glossary": ["metadata-schema", "taxonomy", "folksonomy", "content-governance"],
      "guides": ["taxonomies-ontologies-llm", "ai-assisted-curation"],
      "url": "https://km4ai.org/#Automated_Knowledge_Transformation"
    },
    {
      "id": "pipeline-engine",
      "name": "Pipeline Engine",
      "slug": "pipeline-engine",
      "vendor": "KM4AI",
      "vendor_neutral": false,
      "category": "orchestration",
      "deployment": ["private", "customer-controlled"],
      "open_source": false,
      "pricing_tier": "advisory",
      "summary": "Keeps AI knowledge stores up to date by running cleanup, chunking, embedding, and publish steps on a controlled cadence.",
      "glossary": ["chunking", "embedding", "rag", "vector-database", "ai-readiness"],
      "guides": ["rag-readiness", "measuring-km-impact"],
      "url": "https://km4ai.org/#Automated_Knowledge_Transformation"
    },
    {
      "id": "compliance-guardians",
      "name": "Compliance Guardians",
      "slug": "compliance-guardians",
      "vendor": "KM4AI",
      "vendor_neutral": false,
      "category": "governance",
      "deployment": ["private", "customer-controlled"],
      "open_source": false,
      "pricing_tier": "advisory",
      "summary": "Flags outdated, sensitive, or risky content before it is consumed by AI systems, enforcing ownership and review rules.",
      "glossary": ["content-governance", "provenance", "hallucination", "ai-readiness"],
      "guides": ["governance-provenance-permissions"],
      "url": "https://km4ai.org/#Automated_Knowledge_Transformation"
    },
    {
      "id": "datagrid",
      "name": "DataGrid",
      "slug": "datagrid",
      "vendor": "KM4AI",
      "vendor_neutral": false,
      "category": "structured-knowledge",
      "deployment": ["private", "customer-controlled"],
      "open_source": false,
      "pricing_tier": "advisory",
      "summary": "Structured database layer used in KM4AI DataMesh deployments to hold governed, queryable organizational knowledge.",
      "glossary": ["datamesh", "knowledge-graph", "metadata-schema"],
      "guides": ["knowledge-graphs-101", "governance-provenance-permissions"],
      "url": "https://km4ai.org/#DataMesh"
    },
    {
      "id": "quickview",
      "name": "QuickView",
      "slug": "quickview",
      "vendor": "KM4AI",
      "vendor_neutral": false,
      "category": "visualization",
      "deployment": ["private", "customer-controlled"],
      "open_source": false,
      "pricing_tier": "advisory",
      "summary": "Visualization companion to DataGrid for exploring knowledge structures and access patterns in a DataMesh.",
      "glossary": ["datamesh", "knowledge-graph", "expertise-location"],
      "guides": ["knowledge-graphs-101"],
      "url": "https://km4ai.org/#DataMesh"
    },
    {
      "id": "pagefind",
      "name": "Pagefind",
      "slug": "pagefind",
      "vendor": "Pagefind",
      "vendor_neutral": true,
      "category": "search",
      "deployment": ["static-site", "self-hosted"],
      "open_source": true,
      "pricing_tier": "free",
      "summary": "Client-side static search suitable for documentation and knowledge sites at modest scale; listed as a launch search option in the KM4AI site brief.",
      "glossary": ["semantic-search", "ai-readiness"],
      "guides": ["rag-readiness"],
      "url": "https://pagefind.app/"
    },
    {
      "id": "decap-cms",
      "name": "Decap CMS",
      "slug": "decap-cms",
      "vendor": "Decap",
      "vendor_neutral": true,
      "category": "cms",
      "deployment": ["git-based", "self-hosted"],
      "open_source": true,
      "pricing_tier": "free",
      "summary": "Git-based CMS for Markdown/MDX content workflows; useful when editorial teams want PR-based review without a heavy headless stack.",
      "glossary": ["content-governance", "provenance", "knowledge-management"],
      "guides": ["ai-assisted-curation", "governance-provenance-permissions"],
      "url": "https://decapcms.org/"
    }
  ]
}