Company data is already flowing into consumer chatbots — invisible, unpoliced, unlogged. Pia replaces shadow AI with a better assistant on infrastructure you control.
Both keep the same promise: the server that holds your data answers to you — because you run it, or because it can’t read what it holds.
Run the Pia server on your own hardware, in your own network. It comes in two editions on the same image: the free Community Edition — open source, local authentication built in, five users — and the licensed Enterprise Edition, which adds SSO, your own groups, knowledge bases and negotiated seats.
See what each edition includesThe same server, operated by us. Turn on end-to-end encryption and synced content is encrypted before it leaves the device — then what you sync stays unreadable to us. Prompts sent to a Pia Cloud model are processed on the server rather than stored; with your own provider they bypass it entirely.
Pia wins on its own merits — the governance comes built in. Here’s what a rollout actually gives your team.
Server-side knowledge bases scoped to groups: your documents in, cited answers out. Feed them from your own pipelines over a REST ingestion API.
Teams meetings transcribed live with speakers told apart, plus on-device transcription of the room — behind a spoken consent gate. Summaries land where your people can keep them.
Tools are permissions, schedules deliver answers as chats, and every capability can be revoked. Employees can hand bigger jobs to your Pia server to run in the background — behind an explicit consent screen that states exactly what leaves the device, with caps and a job list.
Author a persona once — its voice, its knowledge bases, its tools — and publish it to a group. Everyone gets the same reviewed assistant, and every answer shows which persona wrote it.
Guardrails, SSO, audit with anomaly detection, encryption at rest — and precisely what an admin cannot see.
Security in detailThe whole admin plane — groups as the unit of policy, token usage boards, live-editable runtime policies, devices — and a side-by-side of what each edition includes.
Self-hosting in detailDeployment, licensing, security reviews — email us and a person answers, in German or English.