New: Turn your document archives into reports in minutes (free tool)
Te Tui Shortland
Over the last little while, I’ve been working on a problem I see everywhere:
People sitting on years of documents — reports, submissions, interviews, evidence, research — but no easy way to actually use that knowledge.
So I built something simple.
Knowledge Vault AI is a local-first tool that lets you:
Drop documents into a folder (PDFs, DOCX, CSVs, notes)
Index your archive in a few clicks
Ask questions across your own material
Generate structured reports with cited evidence
Download those reports as a Word document
All of it runs locally.
Nothing is sent to the cloud.
I tested it on my own environmental and policy work, and it’s already replacing hours of manual searching and compiling.
This is the open-source MVP, designed especially for:
iwi and hapū organisations working with sensitive knowledge
researchers and consultants
legal teams managing evidence bundles
small organisations with large document archives
It’s not perfect — but it works, and it’s fast.
👉 You can access it here:
https://github.com/ManaReviewAI/knowledge-vault-ai
If you try it, I’d genuinely value your feedback:
Where would this save you time?
What would make it more useful?
What’s missing?
This is also part of a bigger direction I’m developing through Mana Review AI — building tools that support decision-making while respecting data sovereignty and keeping knowledge in the hands of the people who hold it.
Ngā mihi,
Tui Shortland
Director – Hoterene Ltd | ManaReview AI
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