FAQ
Questions, answered plainly.
How Sanad handles your data, how it is deployed, what it can do, and how it is priced.
Privacy & data
Where is my work content processed?
On the employee device or the organization's own server, depending on the deployment. Documents are not uploaded to Sanad's vendor services for AI processing.
What do Sanad's servers actually see?
Licensing and update services receive the identifiers, versions, and dates needed to issue entitlements and deliver releases. They do not receive your questions, documents, answers, transcripts, notes, or generated work.
Can it run fully offline, or on an air-gapped network?
Yes. Once models and a valid entitlement are provisioned, core work can continue with the internet unplugged, subject to the applicable entitlement or roaming-grace window. Models can come from your organization server or, where allowed, an external model host.
Where is our data stored?
Work content is stored on employee devices or the organization server. Network-request metadata for licensing, downloads, and the public website may be processed by the relevant service providers.
Deployment & editions
What editions are available?
Three: Organization Server (desktop clients check out a seat over your network, sync a shared knowledge base and official documents, and an administrator runs everything from a console), Team (each device activates directly, no server required), and Personal (a single device, activated directly). Every edition ships the complete desktop app and runs the AI on the desktop itself. Organization Server adds the server-side control plane: Active Directory sign-in, an audit log, scheduled backup and restore, usage figures, device and seat management, and a model cache for your network.
Do we need to run a server?
Only for the Organization Server edition, which is best for departments and organization-wide rollouts. The Team and Personal editions activate directly on each device, with no server to stand up.
What are the hardware requirements?
Sanad runs on Windows PCs and is designed for ordinary office machines. 16 GB of memory gives a comfortable experience. 8 GB works, but answers take noticeably longer on a machine that size. A GPU is not required and helps where one is present. Sanad checks the hardware during setup and tells you what to expect. Organizations that want fast answers on modest desktops can run the model on the server instead of on each PC.
Does an organization licence still work away from the office?
Yes. Organization licences include an offline grace window: a device that has recently connected to the org server keeps working away from the network for a set period, then renews automatically the next time it reconnects.
Can we distribute documents to everyone without the AI reading them?
Yes. Alongside the knowledge base the AI answers from, an administrator can publish official documents — forms, manuals, signed originals — in any file type. Every desktop keeps its own copy, so staff open them in Word, Excel or a PDF reader even with the network unplugged. These are kept separate from the material used for answers and are never quoted in one. Who can see which documents follows the same permissions as the knowledge base, so an HR form is as restricted as an HR policy. Organization Server edition.
Product & features
What can Sanad do?
Answer questions about your own documents with citations, summarize long reports, translate across dozens of languages, rewrite text, keep notes and tasks, prepare meeting summaries with action items, read text out of images, and take voice input — all locally.
Does it support Arabic?
Yes. Sanad is bilingual from the first screen, with full right-to-left support. Your team can read, ask, and get answers in Arabic or English without switching tools.
Which AI models does it use?
Open AI models run on the employee device or organization server — one for conversation and one for document search. AI processing does not use an external inference API. The specific models and versions are shared with your IT team during evaluation.
Which document types can it read?
PDF, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, CSV, HTML, RTF, and plain-text and Markdown files. Uploaded documents are indexed locally, and answers cite the source page they came from.
Pricing & support
How is Sanad priced?
In Omani Rial, with no per-question charges. Organization Server is priced per seat, from OMR 50 per seat per year for larger deployments. Team is OMR 65 per seat per year, and Personal is OMR 45 per device per year.
Are updates included?
Yes. Updates within your licence year are free, in every edition.
What support do we get?
Support during Gulf working hours, and a 20-minute demo whenever you would like to see Sanad answer questions about one of your own documents.
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