Bringing scattered sources into a single search — the unified knowledge workspace UseSources

Description and use

UseSources consolidates internal and external sources into a single RAG and workspace, enabling quick answer retrieval and unified permission management via a single project.

Problem

Information needed for work is scattered across internal wiki, tasks, chat and external SaaS (Notion, Slack, Confluence, Jira, Google Drive), causing time‑wasting multi‑tool searches and making it hard to give AI context.

Outcome

UseSources reduced search time by consolidating multiple tools into one interface, improved AI context provision, and streamlined permission management. Users reported that searching became time spent reading rather than hunting.

Workflow

• Create a project – automatically generates a wiki page, task board, and chat channel.
• Add members to the project – permissions are set once for all sub‑components.
• Connect external SaaS (Notion, Slack, Confluence, Jira, Google Drive) via connectors – documents are ingested asynchronously into the shared index.
• Search using the unified search bar – the AI agent returns the answer and the source location.
• Open the referenced document or chat thread directly from the search result.
• Use the task board and wiki pages for ongoing work – tasks are treated as pages and share the same search index.
• Review weekly – view pages and tasks that moved together, write notes directly in task bodies.
• Iterate – add new connectors or projects as needed.

Evidence

The connector has actually synced about 3,000 documents from Notion and been verified end to end (E2E).

Source

The response dropped to 1.73 seconds after making ingestion asynchronous.

Source

Creating a project produces a three‑part set at once: a wiki page, a task board, and a dedicated chat channel.

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