Enterprise search finds what someone typed into a document. ThreadWeave captures what people actually know.
Copilot is the most common comparison point because it's what enterprises already have. Here's how they differ.
| M365 Copilot | ThreadWeave | |
|---|---|---|
| What it searches | Explicit documents | Tacit + explicit knowledge |
| How knowledge gets in | Someone must write it down | Passive capture from email, chat, and documents |
| Data location | Microsoft cloud | Your hardware, on-premises |
| Pricing | Per-seat, recurring | Free, open source (MIT) |
| LLM required | Yes | Optional — any OpenAI-compatible endpoint |
| Confidentiality | Tenant-level | 7 sensitivity levels with wing-to-wing isolation |
| GDPR surface | New (Copilot processes your data) | Inherits from existing email/document systems |
| Knowledge graph | No | Yes — temporal, with cross-team tunnels |
| Offboarding capture | No | Yes — harvests knowledge before employees leave |
Enterprise search tools like Glean index your documents and make them searchable. They're fast and powerful, but they only find what someone explicitly wrote down. They can't capture the decision made in a Teams thread that was never turned into a document. They can't harvest a retiring employee's tacit knowledge. And they're cloud-services with per-seat pricing — your organizational memory is hosted on someone else's infrastructure.
ThreadWeave complements these tools. It captures what they miss — the unwritten knowledge, the institutional context, the cross-team connections. Feed ThreadWeave's knowledge graph into your existing search surface and it gains access to the knowledge it was blind to.
Wikis require someone to write things down. That's the entire problem ThreadWeave exists to solve. Nobody wakes up excited to document what they know. They wake up excited to do the work. Wikis work for teams with a strong documentation culture. They fail for organizations where knowledge lives in email threads, chat messages, and hallway conversations — which is most organizations.
The traditional approach: hire consultants to interview your experts, produce a report, and build a taxonomy. It works once, costs a fortune, and the knowledge walks out the door again when the next person retires. ThreadWeave replaces the one-time interview with continuous passive capture. Same insight, zero friction, ongoing.
ThreadWeave doesn't replace your existing tools. It extends them. Copilot finds what's written. Enterprise search indexes what's filed. Wikis organize what's documented. ThreadWeave captures what none of them can reach — the tacit knowledge that makes your organization valuable. It runs on your hardware, costs nothing, and never stops listening.