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MaxiAI documentation overview
Learn how MaxiAI connects conversational AI, organisational knowledge, work systems, content creation and sovereign deployment in one platform.
What MaxiAI is
MaxiAI is a South African-built, Africa-first sovereign AI work platform. It brings approved intelligence into a unified chat where users can understand information, create outputs and move work forward.
The platform supports South African data residency, a locally deployed MaxiAI model and customer-infrastructure deployment for enterprise requirements. Approved frontier models can be governed through the same workspace where their processing conditions are accepted.
How the platform is organised
Chat is the primary working surface. Knowledge, files, meetings, email, tasks, research, agents, personas, documents, spreadsheets, presentations, PDFs and media appear as connected modules and tool results.
- Capture information from approved sources and connected work.
- Understand context through summaries, retrieval, research and analysis.
- Create documents, presentations, spreadsheets, PDFs and media.
- Act through tasks, owners, workflows and reviewed communication.
Choose a documentation path
Professionals can begin with chat and documents. Teams commonly add knowledge, meetings, email and tasks. Platform owners should also review agents, billing, security, model routing and deployment controls.
Account and deployment boundaries
The public website assistant explains MaxiAI using public documentation only. It does not access customer workspaces. Signed-in product capabilities depend on the user's permissions, active plan, integrations and organisation configuration.
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AI chat
Use one conversational surface to work with approved models, files, knowledge, tools and connected work.
Knowledge
Create governed knowledge bases and ask grounded questions across approved organisational information.
Documents and files
Understand files and create Word documents, PowerPoint presentations, spreadsheets and PDFs from MaxiAI chat.
Deep research
Plan investigations, gather relevant sources, preserve citations and produce decision-ready research outputs.
Images and media
Generate and refine visual assets from MaxiAI using controlled prompts, formats and reviewed outputs.
Meetings
Capture meeting context, create recaps and move decisions into accountable follow-through.
Search connected email, understand threads and attachments, extract actions and prepare reviewed responses.
Tasks and work management
Use MaxiAI to find work, extract actions and organise delivery across list, board, calendar, spreadsheet and timeline views.
Personas
Apply reusable communication style and role guidance to MaxiAI conversations without rebuilding instructions for every request.
Custom agents
Configure specialist AI workers with approved instructions, tools, knowledge and reusable workflows.
Credits and billing
Understand starter credits, subscription plans, usage and additional credit purchases in MaxiAI.
Security, governance and sovereignty
Understand data residency, deployment, model routing, access, retention, audit and human-review responsibilities.
Integrations
Connect MaxiAI to approved work and cloud ecosystems including Microsoft, Google and supported business channels.