Kahubi The European alternative to NotebookLM

Kahubi is a browser-based AI workspace for research from Avidemic AB in Gothenburg, which also develops Avidnote. The AI works with the user's own papers, drafts, datasets and transcripts and cites the sources it uses. The service covers literature search, writing, citing, surveys, statistics and interview analysis. Projects can be shared with roles for viewers, commenters and editors. According to the company, target groups include researchers, PhD students, students, lecturers and R&D professionals.

According to the compliance page, the application runs at Hostup AB in Swedish data centres, while CDN and encrypted backups are at Bunny (Slovenia) in EU data centres. The primary AI provider is TensorX (Ireland), with GreenPT (Netherlands), Inceptron and Berget AI (Sweden) and Scaleway (France) serving as backups and for optional models. Transcription is handled by Lemonfox (Germany), Berget AI and Gladia (France), and web search runs through Staan (France). Card payments for self-serve accounts are handled by Stripe Payments Europe Ltd (Ireland), while institutional customers are invoiced via Visma (Sweden). Product analytics with OpenPanel is self-hosted.

Kahubi supports the process from literature search to finished text. For systematic reviews, the service searches OpenAlex and the web, screens papers against inclusion and exclusion criteria and logs the decisions along with PRISMA counts. Surveys can be created with validated scales such as SUS, PSS-10 or TAM and published via link or QR code. Uploaded CSV files are analysed with methods including t-tests, ANOVA, regression and Cronbach's alpha. Guided flows are also available for experiments, Delphi studies, ethics applications and grant applications.