Elium is a Belgian alternative to Confluence and Notion for AI and machine learning.
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- Headquarters
- Belgium
- Founded
- 2007
- Open source
- No
- Free plan
- No
- Data hosted in
- the EU
Governed knowledge base with AI import, AI search, expiry reminders for stale content and permission-aware delivery to Teams, ServiceNow and AI agents.
Belgian enterprise knowledge platform that keeps procedures and know-how verified and current, and serves them to people and AI agents with permissions intact.
Elium turns scattered procedures, policies and runbooks into one governed source of truth for the whole company. Content has owners, gets flagged when it goes stale, and is routed back for verification, so teams and their AI tools work from knowledge that is actually current.
Existing documents come in through AI import from SharePoint, Google Drive, Confluence, Notion or plain Markdown. Answers then reach people where they already work, in the web app, on mobile, in Microsoft Teams, Zendesk and ServiceNow, and reach AI agents through MCP, REST and API access that respects each user's permissions.
Key benefits:
- Expiration management flagging outdated pages and sending them to their owners
- AI search answering questions from verified company content
- Permission-aware AI so agents only see what the asking user may see
- AI import converting legacy documents into structured, maintainable articles
- Wide integrations with more than 30 tools including Teams, Slack, Jira and Salesforce
- Flexible deployment as SaaS, private cloud or on-premise for enterprise customers
Elium is built by Whatever SA, an independent company founded in 2007 in Walloon Brabant, Belgium, with a second office near Paris. It holds ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certification and processes data under GDPR. Standard SaaS data stays in the EU on Google Cloud's Belgian region, while customers who want to avoid US-owned infrastructure can choose hosting in France on 3DS Outscale, which is SecNumCloud-qualified. Customer content is never used to train models.
More than 150,000 people across 150+ organisations use Elium, including L'Oréal, BNP Paribas, VINCI Energies, SNCF and the Council of Europe.
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