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title: Introduction
description: 'Learn about Danswer'
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## What is Danswer

[Danswer](https://github.com/danswer-ai/danswer) is an OpenSource Enterprise Question Answering Tool.

### **But what is that?** 🤔

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**What do you mean by Question Answer?**
    - Direct QA allows you to ask questions in simple language and receive instant, accurate responses.
    - Unlock knowledge from private data sources whether that be company internal documents or personal sources you want
    to add.
    - Every answer is backed by quotes and reference documents so you can always trust what you get back.

**What about OpenSource?**
    - The project is licensed under the MIT License, do anything you'd like!
    - Danswer is built to be easily hosted by anyone, all you need to setup are the data connectors.

**How about Enterprise?**
    - Danswer has user authentication with document level access control.
    - Danswer provides connectors to common enterprise tools such as Slack, Google Drive, GitHub etc.


## Main Features 💃
    - Direct QA powered by Generative AI models with answers backed by quotes and source links.
    - Intelligent Document Retrieval (Semantic Search/Reranking pipeline) using the latest LLMs.
    - An AI Helper backed by a custom Deep Learning model to interpret user intent.
    - User authentication with document level access management.
    - Connectors to Slack, GitHub, GoogleDrive, Confluence, BookStack, local files, and web scrapping, with more to come.
    - Management Dashboard to manage connectors and set up features such as live update fetching.
    - One line Docker Compose deployment of all services to host Danswer anywhere.


## Upcoming
    - Chat/Conversation support.
    - Support custom endpoints for Generative AI models or even self-host options.
    - Template to easily build custom connectors.
    - Personalized search