Obie.ai
All of your team documents, wikis and information in one place.
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Obie.ai, founded in 2015 by Chris Buttenham, emerged as a solution to streamline knowledge management within organizations. Buttenham, who previously experienced the frustrations of inaccessible company information firsthand as a project manager, aimed to create a tool that would embed knowledge directly into existing workflows. The company developed a platform that acted as a unified knowledge base, integrating with popular workplace tools like Slack, Jira, Confluence, and Google Drive. This integration allowed employees to quickly find answers and documents without switching between applications, directly addressing the issue of information silos and improving productivity.
The core service of Obie.ai revolved around its intelligent search capabilities. By connecting various company wikis, cloud storage, and internal documents, the platform provided a single point of access for information. Its technology was designed to understand natural language queries, enabling users to ask questions in a conversational manner and receive relevant results instantly. The business model targeted companies struggling with knowledge discovery, offering a subscription-based service to teams and entire enterprises. The value proposition was clear: reduce the time employees spend searching for information, thereby accelerating onboarding, speeding up support tickets, and facilitating better decision-making across the organization.
A significant milestone in Obie.ai's journey was its acquisition by Seismic in 2021. The acquisition integrated Obie's knowledge management technology into the Seismic Enablement Cloud, enhancing Seismic's offerings with more robust knowledge discovery features. This strategic move signaled the value of Obie's solution in the broader sales enablement market, providing a larger platform for its technology to be utilized by sales and marketing teams globally. Following the acquisition, the Obie.ai brand and operations were absorbed into Seismic, marking the conclusion of its independent journey.
Keywords: knowledge management, internal search, workflow integration, enterprise search, information discovery, knowledge base, Slack integration, Confluence integration, document search, sales enablement