Local-first knowledge engine · Windows

Answers from your documents. Nothing leaves your machine.

Motekai Retriever reads your notes and files, finds the passages that matter, and answers in plain language, with a citation on every claim. It runs entirely on your PC. No account, no cloud, no subscription.

Windows 10/11 · signed installer · full-featured trial, no card needed

Grounded, not inventedCited to your sourcesRuns on your machine
Motekai Retriever on Windows, ask in plain language, straight from the desktop.

Most assistants answer from memory, and sometimes they guess. Motekai opens your filing cabinet first — it only answers from what it can actually find in your documents.

Follow a question

From your words to a cited answer

Watch one question travel through the system, all of it on your own machine.

  1. You ask in plain language

    No keywords, no syntax. Ask the way you'd ask a colleague.

    “What's our refund window?”

  2. Your question becomes a fingerprint

    It's turned into numbers that capture meaning, so a match can be found even when the words are different.

    Under the hoodAn embedding model maps the question into a vector.

  3. Motekai searches your knowledge

    That fingerprint is compared against every passage in your documents, and the closest matches are pulled out.

    Under the hoodNearest-neighbour search over a vector index, then a reranker re-sorts the top hits for precision.

  4. The best passages become context

    Only the most relevant pages are handed to the language model to read, nothing else.

    Under the hoodThe retrieved passages are placed in the prompt as the model's only source.

  5. It writes a grounded, cited answer

    The model answers using only those passages, and marks each claim with a citation you can open and check.

    Under the hoodEvery sentence is verified against its source; if the evidence isn't there, Motekai says so instead of guessing.

The real app

See it working

Every answer carries its confidence, its sources, and a map of where it came from.
Setup is one decision: point it at a folder. Everything stays on this computer.

Why you can trust the answer

Grounded by construction.

Grounded, not invented

Answers come from your documents. If the passages don't support a claim, it's dropped, and if nothing fits, Motekai refuses rather than guess.

Cited to your sources

Every claim carries a citation back to the exact document it came from, so you can verify the answer in one click.

Runs on your machine

Your documents stay local. Nothing is uploaded to a third party for the system to work, the models run on your own PC.

Before you download

System requirements

Operating system
Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit. The installer is code-signed. macOS and Linux aren't supported yet.
Memory
16 GB RAM recommended for the full local model. On 8 GB the app automatically uses a lighter model, answers are still grounded and cited, just from a smaller model.
Disk space
The installer is about 1.3 GB. On first run the app downloads its local AI engine and models (several GB more, checksum-verified). Plan for roughly 8 GB free in total.
Internet
Needed once, for the first-run model download, and for optional update checks. After that, everything works fully offline.
GPU
Not required. Answers come from a local model running on your CPU; a supported GPU makes them faster.

Honest note: local AI is compute-hungry. On older hardware, answers take longer, the free trial is the right way to find out how it feels on your machine before paying anything.

One-time purchase

Buy it once. It's yours.

Free trial

€0

  • The complete app, fully featured for 14 days, with nothing held back
  • No account, no card, no sign-up
  • It never quietly gives you worse answers. What you run is the full app, at full quality
Download for Windows

The trial download is the same signed build as the paid app.

Launch-month price

Personal licence

€69 €99

  • One payment, no subscription, ever
  • Licence key by email, verified offline inside the app
  • Licensed per person, for the machines you use yourself
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Questions

Frequently asked

Ask your own documents.

Free for 14 days, full-featured, offline after the first run. If it earns its keep, buy it once.