--- title: "Replace your wiki — a Confluence, SharePoint and Notion alternative | Certant" description: "With Confluence, you search and read. With Certant, you ask and get an answer with a citation. Sit on top of your existing wiki, or replace it once nobody opens it anyway." url: "https://certant.ai/replace-your-wiki" --- # Keep the wiki. Lose the search box. The index hasn't been touched in years and people Slack each other instead of searching. The problem is the search box, not the pages. [Start free](https://certant.ai/register) Compare against Confluence Keep the tools you have. Connect them, don't migrate them. Every answer cites its source. Example The same question, searched on the left and asked on the right. In one sentence With Confluence, you _search_ and _read_. With Certant, you _ask_ and get an _answer_ with a citation. Same documents underneath, new shape on top. You don't have to migrate, because Certant connects to where your wiki already lives and answers across all of them. The comparison ## Against the tools you already have You don't replace a wiki the way you replace a CRM. It becomes the place the AI reads rather than the place people look. vs Confluence ### Confluence alternative Atlassian's editor and spaces work well for engineering RFCs. The pain is everything else: HR pages, onboarding, policy. Certant reads it all and answers, without forcing your team to keep authoring. - Connects to Confluence - Answers cite the source page - No migration; no re-tagging vs SharePoint ### SharePoint alternative SharePoint stores everything, and nobody can find anything. Certant reads your SharePoint sites, ranks the right document, and returns the answer with a click-through to the file. - Honours SharePoint permissions - Reads Word, PowerPoint, PDFs - No "SharePoint admin" required to launch vs Notion ### Notion alternative Notion is good for the people who actually write. Everyone else just wants the answer. Add Certant as the answer surface; Notion remains the writer's surface. - Lives in Slack, Teams or a web widget - No-one has to learn a new tool - Citations link back into Notion vs Glean Sovereign option ### [Glean alternative](https://certant.ai/compare/certant-vs-glean) Glean is AI search. Certant adds agents that do the routine work and stop for approval before anything important, a map of how everything connects that you can open, and the option to run it inside your own walls. - Chat, copilots and agents on one map - Runs inside your own walls, nothing leaves - Citations on every answer, by default vs Guru ### [Guru alternative](https://certant.ai/compare/certant-vs-guru) Guru asks you to write cards. That is the same authoring job as a wiki, in smaller pieces. Certant skips the writing, since it reads what you already produced. - No cards to write, verify or expire - Reads PDFs, contracts, tickets, transcripts - Answer-first, not card-first vs Dust ### Dust alternative Dust gives you assistant building blocks. Certant ships the platform: chatbots, copilots, agents and analytics on one map of your business, with a sovereign option for regulated industries. - Role-based permissions and an audit log - A map you can open and inspect - Deployed across Australia and the UAE How replacement actually happens ## By attrition, not migration The mistake is treating this like a CRM swap. 1. **Connect** Point Certant at the wiki you already have. No migration. No re-tagging. 2. **Drop in chat** Put the answer bar in Slack, Teams, or your intranet. Watch the questions roll in. 3. **Watch usage shift** People stop opening the wiki, and start asking instead. 4. **Archive the cruft** Find the documents nobody ever asks about, and archive them. 5. **Retain the editor** Keep your wiki for things humans actually need to author. Lose the index. FAQ ## What buyers ask Short answers. If yours isn't here, ask us. Why does nobody use our wiki? Wikis fail for the same reason filing cabinets did: the cost of writing and maintaining the perfect page is so high that nobody does it, the pages drift, and people stop trusting the index. Search and read needs the pages to be perfect; ask and answer doesn't. Do I have to migrate from Confluence to use Certant? No. Certant connects to Confluence, SharePoint, Notion, Google Drive and the rest, reads what's there, and answers across all of them. Most teams keep their tools and add Certant as the answer layer. Is Certant a direct Confluence replacement? It can be. But for most teams, replacement happens by attrition. Once questions get answered without opening the wiki, fewer people open the wiki, fewer people write to the wiki, and the platform becomes irrelevant. How is this different from Glean, Guru, Dust or other AI search tools? Certant ships chat, agents and analytics on the same map of your business. Every answer is grounded with a citation to the source paragraph. And it can run entirely inside your own walls, in your VPC or air-gapped, which most AI search tools cannot. Can I still write pages somewhere? Yes, and you should, for the things humans need to author from scratch. Certant doesn't replace the editor; it replaces the search bar and the index nobody updates. Will my SharePoint permissions still work? Yes. Certant honours the permissions of the underlying source. If someone can't see a document in SharePoint, Certant won't surface it for them either. ## Don't migrate. Just answer. Connect your wiki and drop the answer bar into Slack. [Start free](https://certant.ai/register) [Talk to an architect](https://certant.ai/contact-sales) The bigger picture You don't replace a wiki. You make it irrelevant. Once the questions get answered without it, fewer people open it, and it becomes the thing the AI reads.