What is Needle.app?

Needle is a knowledge threading platform for AI workflow automation that centralizes documents, apps and data sources into a searchable knowledge base.

It performs document search and indexing across PDFs, DOCX, TXT, CSV, JSON, HTML, MD, XLSX, PPTX, PNG and JPG and connects to Google Drive, Dropbox, SharePoint, Notion, Confluence, GitHub, HubSpot, Jira and Slack.

Users create AI workflows and reusable workflow templates to automate tasks such as candidate screening, résumé parsing, invoice processing, personalized outreach, website monitoring and daily briefing generation.

Built-in features include data extraction, document summarization, multilingual search, a prompt library and Slackbot integration for in-conversation answers and cross-platform actions.

Teams in sales, HR, engineering, support, legal, marketing and finance can streamline knowledge discovery, centralize customer data, automate document processing and surface insights.

The platform offers layered access controls, real-time analytics and one-click connections to make workspaces searchable and audit-ready.

Needle supports file uploads, structured data extraction and export to downstream systems to reduce time spent searching for information and accelerate decision-making.

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Needle.app details

Built for: Businesses and teams
Stated compliance: GDPR

Compliance as stated in Needle.app's own published documentation.

Needle.app tech specs

Works with: OpenAI / GPT Anthropic / Claude Google / Gemini DeepSeek xAI / Grok Qwen Z.ai Kimi MiniMax
Integrations: Slack Salesforce HubSpot Google Workspace

Needle.app pricing

Freemium

Free $0/mo

Pro $29/mo

Enterprise custom

$29/mo is pricier than most for Knowledge base management median $19/mo

Most Knowledge base management tools start between $10 and $29.50 a month.

Free trial: 7 days

Trial, refund and renewal terms as stated in Needle.app's own published documentation.

Verify on the official pricing page.

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Needle.app's key features

Centralized searchable knowledge base aggregating documents, apps and data sources
Document search and indexing across PDFs, DOCX, TXT, CSV, JSON, HTML, MD, XLSX, PPTX, PNG and JPG
Connectors to Google Drive, Dropbox, SharePoint, Notion, Confluence, GitHub, HubSpot, Jira and Slack
AI workflow builder with reusable workflow templates for task automation
Built-in data extraction, document summarization, multilingual search, prompt library and Slackbot integration

Needle.app use cases

Create a centralized, searchable knowledge base with Needle that indexes documents, apps and connectors into one unified repository, uses reusable AI workflows to automatically summarize, tag and deduplicate content for instant multilingual search and powers customer support, onboarding and knowledge transfer without any coding
Automate hiring pipelines in Needle by parsing resumes and cover letters into structured candidate profiles, extracting skills, experience and qualifications, ranking applicants with custom AI workflows and automatically syncing shortlisted candidates to your ATS and calendar for interviews
Streamline accounts payable and procurement with Needle by indexing invoices and purchase orders, extracting line items, totals and vendor data, validating amounts against POs, routing exceptions to approvers and posting transactions to your ERP using reusable cross-platform automation templates