Just put Berengario in CC.
Berengario is a RAG-powered assistant that learns from your emails and documents. Teach it by putting it in CC. Ask it anything by sending an email. Get a sourced answer in under a minute.
Three steps. No training required. No new software to learn.
CC Berengario on any email or forward it a document. It reads attachments, parses the content, and adds everything to your team's knowledge base — silently, in the background.
Write Berengario an email like you'd write a colleague. "What's the protocol for X?" or "Where do I find the policy on Y?" — plain language, no special syntax.
Berengario replies within a minute with a clear, sourced answer drawn from everything your team has ever shared with it. Like a PA who's read every document.
Teaching and querying happen entirely through email — the interface everyone already uses.
Hi all, attached is the updated Western Blot protocol with the new antibody dilutions we discussed.
Hi, what antibody dilutions should I use for the Western Blot?
According to the Western Blot Protocol v3, the recommended antibody dilutions are:
Primary antibody: 1:1000 in 5% BSA/TBST
Secondary antibody: 1:5000 in 5% milk/TBST
Source: western_blot_v3.pdf (updated Feb 2026)
Most AI tools ask you to change the way you work — learn a new interface, write prompts in a chat window, drag files into yet another platform. Berengario doesn't. It lives where your team already works: email.
Put Berengario in CC and it learns. Forward a document and it reads it. No uploads, no dashboards, no training sessions. If you can send an email, you can teach Berengario.
Write Berengario an email the way you'd write the person sitting next door. Plain language, no syntax, no tricks. It replies with sourced answers in under a minute.
Unlike the colleague next door, Berengario never forgets. Every document, every email, every protocol — it's all there, instantly searchable, permanently available.
Berengario is the colleague who has read every document, attended every meeting, and is always available — one email away.
Berengario works wherever knowledge gets buried in inboxes and shared drives.
Protocols, SOPs, safety docs, equipment manuals, supplier info — everything a lab accumulates over years, instantly searchable.
"Your postdoc asks about the Western Blot protocol at 11pm — Berengario answers instantly."
Teaching practices, exam policies, room booking procedures, HR guidelines, committee minutes — the institutional knowledge that usually lives in one person's head.
"New lecturers get answers to admin questions without waiting for a reply from the office."
Everything you need to build and query a team knowledge base.
PDF, DOCX, TXT, CSV, XLS, XLSX — just attach and send.
Chat-style web UI with conversation history and source citations.
Manage documents, monitor queries, view analytics, control whitelists.
LLM-based query rewriting for better retrieval accuracy.
Automatic narrative expansion and Q&A generation for structured data.
Ingest content from URLs — send a link, Berengario reads the page.
Calendar event creation and export formatting via natural language.
Per-instance system prompts, email footers, and response formats.
Pay for what you use — queries and storage. Unlimited users, AI costs, email hosting, and maintenance all included.
Need more? Get in touch for custom volumes.
All hosted plans include setup, maintenance, backups, and a 3-month free trial.
Berengario is open source — you can always self-host. But there's more to it than docker-compose up.
You send emails. We handle the rest.
Full control. Full responsibility.
Self-hosting is free and unlimited under the MIT licence. No restrictions, no phone-home, no catch.