Chris Messina

Collato - One AI search to find anything instantly, across all apps

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.

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Sebastian Oehlschläger
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 soon Get 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
Sofia Wang
@chrismessina @sebabytes Nice Product!
Grace Hur
@sebabytes YES. Ease my brain please! 🙏❤️
Catherine Norris
@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.
Franziska Kroll
@xiaoxue2019 thank you! We are also super excited. 😻
Grace Hur
@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.
Irina Haupt
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!
Grace Hur
@irina_haupt Simple and delightful. Just like our product's core principles 🍦
Irina Haupt
@gracehur Yes, and just like our favorite dessert! 🤩🍦
Maija Riuttamäki
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...
Grace Hur
@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!
Grace Hur
@maija_riuttamaeki @john_morrison1 John's the smart brain ☝️ he knows how the product works inside and out! 💯
Maija Riuttamäki
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.
Irina Haupt
@maija_riuttamaeki Excited for you to try it out - please send all your feedback our way, we want to make it as user-centric as possible!
Abid Unnisa
How cool is that!! Cant wait to try.
Kartal Erkoc
@abid_unnisa Hey Abid! 😊 Happy to get your feedback once you try it out! 🙌🏼
Franziska Kroll
@abid_unnisa Hey Abid! Thank you so much for trying it out! Let us know what you think of it and how to make it even better 🚀
Abid Unnisa
@kartal_erkoc1 will do for sure!
Abid Unnisa
@franziska_kroll definitely! All the best!
Irina Haupt
@abid_unnisa Glad you like what you see! We offer expert onboarding to help you get the most out of our product. Wanna give it a try?
Inderpreet Singh
Congratulations to the team. This will surely be helpful for the teams.🎊🎊
Kartal Erkoc
@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! 🙌🏼
Franziska Kroll
@inderpreet_singh1 Thank you so much for the kind words! Any thoughts on which teams, apart from product teams, could really benefit from Collato?
Grace Hur
@inderpreet_singh1 Ahh! Thank you, my friend! This is just the start and we can't wait to have you along with our journey.
Inderpreet Singh
@franziska_kroll Maybe a freelancer who interacts with clients on different platforms.
Franziska Kroll
@inderpreet_singh1 Interesting you mention this, this is exactly how we started out. If you want to know more one of our founders is hosting an AMA on here https://www.producthunt.com/disc...
Tornike Phkhovelishvili
Seems interesting. Can you tell us a bit about the integration process? How long it takes, what is the process, etc
Sebastian Oehlschläger
@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.
Tornike Phkhovelishvili
@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?
Sebastian Oehlschläger
@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.
Irina Haupt
@tornike_phkhovelishvili Thank you so much for your support and keep those questions coming! 🙌
Ilya Yaroshevich
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!
Irina Haupt
@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! 🌟
Grace Hur
@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?
Ilya Yaroshevich
@gracehur Yes, it would help me improve the interaction between the teams on the project in the future! What languages does Collato support?
Grace Hur
@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.
Anil Matcha
Powerful for teams productivity, congrats on the launch
Kartal Erkoc
@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! 🙌🏼
Anil Matcha
@kartal_erkoc1 Sure, will do
Irina Haupt
@matcha_anil We truly believe it is and are happy you think the same! 🚀
Daniel Øllgaard
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?
Sebastian Oehlschläger
@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 👌
Daniel Øllgaard
@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!
Irina Haupt
@sebabytes @daniel_ollgaard Thanks so much for your kind words. We are so excited to hear that you find it useful!😍
Chris Sarca
This seems really useful, congrats on the launch!
Grace Hur
@chris_sarca Thank you! Which use case resonates the most with you? 💭
Kartal Erkoc
@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? 😊
Chris Sarca
@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.
Chris Sarca
@gracehur The project wiki 100%
Grace Hur
@chris_sarca Chris! I'll connect with you on LinkedIn. Here to help if you ever get stuck or have questions 🙌
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