Frequently Asked Questions – FAQ

A workbench for research and analysis. You build a library of your own material, for example reports, papers, interviews, articles, books, spreadsheets, and recordings. You choose which ones are relevant for your work, and use AI to start asking questions about the contents of all the selected files. 

Every answer points back to the page it came from, in the document it came from.

Parsd doesn’t answer based on what’s available on the internet, or from what a model happens to know. It answers based on the material you give it to work with. 

Parsd is an AI-powered tool designed to help individuals and teams free up more time and do better thinking. Not do the thinking for them.

Parsd is made for people who do writing and/or research that requires processing a lot of background material, and who’ll have their names on the final product (paper, article, book, thesis, presentation etc.) and who also need to be able to provide an audit trail for their sources.

When something is at stake, Parsd is the tool that lets you use AI while minimising the risk of errors. That’s why professional thinkers like analysts, writers, researchers, policy writers, consultants, academics, journalists and many others will benefit greatly from using Parsd.

Other AI-solutions base their answers on their training and what they can find online. With Parsd the answers you get are based on the contents of your personal digital library. 

That sounds like a limitation. It can be one, and that’s deliberate. A general AI-assistant will answer any question you put to it. This is useful when you’re exploring. But it’s a problem when your credibility is at stake. Parsd works from sources you choose and rate, and it shows you where each claim came from for full provenance.

The other difference is that your material stays. Parsd is a smart digital library that you build over weeks, months, and years, not a conversation that ends when you close the tab.

Plus, the AI does not use your data for training. Your data is kept safe.

NotebookLM does something similar, and does it well. It works from documents you supply and it cites them.

The difference is everything around that. Parsd is built to make the work of professional thinkers better. Not to do the work for them.

Parsd is built for creating work you might have to defend. That’s why it features:

• citations down to the page
• projects that hold hundreds of files rather than a session’s worth
• chats that are private by default, but possible to share with others for input and feedback
• shared chats that can be rated by you and your team members together
• text analysis and translations in 21 languages, so you can work with a broad range of international materials
• your own private library of uploaded files
• automatic enrichment with metadata for every file you upload
• unique visualisation of the contents of each uploaded file, offering a quick overview 
• domain-specific translation glossaries shared across teams
• EU hosting
• user login with digital ID
• a source catalogue where you rate source reliability yourself, from A to E
• a digital provenance chain from source to finished product 

NotebookLM is a good tool for making sense of things. Parsd is for when someone asks you how you know things.

You check it. That is the point of the product.

Parsd helps you visualise the trail back to your sources. This is really helpful for checking answers, and keeping track of where your ideas and concepts are coming from.

Every quotation in your finished work cites the document, and the passage it was drawn from. This makes verifying a sentence faster and easier than ever. Parsd draws only on the sources in your own library, so there is a finite, known set of places an answer can have come from.

Because you rate your sources yourself, your assessment of a source travels with everything that source contributes.

We’re not going to tell you the AI is never wrong. We have built the product on the assumption that you and others will check, and we’ve made checking fast.

Parsd generates answers from your library of files. If the AI can’t find the answer there, it will say so. No AI-solution can completely prevent hallucinations, but our digital provenance chain makes it possible to review.

Currently, you can upload PDFs, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, web pages, text files, and MP3 or M4A audio.

Scanned PDFs are read with Optical Character Recognition (OCR), so archive material and photographed pages can be added, as well as clean files. Speaker notes are extracted from PowerPoint presentations and become part of your material. Excel tables keep their rows and columns, and you can query the data without issues. Recorded interviews and other audio files are transcribed, so you can search and cite them like you would a document. 

If you use Zotero, your personal and group libraries sync across to your Parsd library. This means years of collected references can become your starting point for working with Parsd, not something you have to abandon.

Yes — 21 of them, including Dutch, French, Spanish, German, Swedish, Finnish, Polish, Russian and Ukrainian. Documents are analysed in the language they were written in, so nothing is flattened by being translated into English on the way in. You can hold a corpus in six languages and treat it as one body of material.

When you do want a translation, you can compare engines and choose the one you trust for that text. You can also load your organisation’s glossary, so your terms come out the same way every time, across documents, translators, and team members.

No. Our agreements with suppliers and partners do not allow them to use your data for training their AI. The privacy and security of your data is equivalent to leading cloud drive solutions.

Your documents and the application run on Google Cloud inside the EU, in Belgium and Frankfurt. This is encrypted in transit and at rest.

Some processing, for example text generation and embeddings, currently runs outside the EU, under EU-approved transfer mechanisms. We publish every sub-processor, what it handles and where it sits, at parsd.com/sub-processors. We are re-architecting the platform to bring all of it inside the EU.

With e-ID (BankID in Sweden), or with a password and multi-factor authentication if you don’t have an e-ID. There’s also an option to manually verify your identity.
 

Changing your email address or password, or deleting your account, requires you to sign in again, so anyone who finds your screen unlocked cannot quietly take the account over.

Parsd AB is a Swedish company. Depending on how you use the service, Parsd acts as either a data controller (for your account details and billing) or a data processor (for the material you and your organization process within Parsd). GDPR compliance is built into how the product works rather than added on top of it.

Under the EU AI Act (Regulation 2024/1689), Parsd’s generative features are classified as limited risk. Entity extraction, audio transcription and translation are minimal or zero risk. The classification work is done and written down, so your own assessment starts from a stated position instead of an investigation.

Every plan starts with a 30-day free trial. A student license is SEK 199 a month. The professional tier is SEK 795, and Expert SEK 995. Paying for a yearly plan upfront costs less. 

You sign up and use Parsd on your own material. No procurement process, no demo booked three weeks out, no conversation with a salesperson unless you want one.

Upgrades take effect immediately and are prorated. Downgrades take effect at the end of the period you have already paid for.

There is no formal limit to the number of uploaded files you can store in your personal library. However, there is a limit to how many files you can upload per month, depending on which plan you’re on.

Contact us within 90 days of terminating your account and we’ll send you a zip file containing the files in your personal library.

Yes. You can share projects, documents, chats, source lists and glossaries with named colleagues, and work on a draft together next to the sources it is built from. 

One person’s assessment of a source becomes the team’s. Terminology once settled stays settled. Someone joining next year starts from what the team already knows.

Organisations can be set up on a single contract with central billing. Parsd is in production at Försvarshögskolan and Stockholms Stad. If you need invoicing or something specific to your organisation, contact us.