# ALVIREQ > ALVIREQ is a self-hosted AI agent workspace for small and mid-sized organisations. Its agents carry out multi-step office work (email triage, reporting, research, CRM and finance chores) across connected systems, record every step in a readable run log, and stop for a human decision before anything consequential happens. ALVIREQ is deployed per organisation, in a Swiss or EU data centre. It is model-agnostic: Claude through Anthropic's API, open models hosted in Switzerland by Infomaniak AI Services, or any OpenAI-compatible endpoint, including local models. ## What ALVIREQ does - Chat with agents that use tools: workspace files, web search and browsing, data queries over CSV/JSON, knowledge base search, memory, scheduling, and admin-approved MCP servers. - Memory and recall: ALVIREQ remembers preferences, business terms, rules and metrics, and can search past conversations. - Knowledge base: document collections (PDF, DOCX, Markdown, HTML, text), private or shared with roles. - Playbooks: reusable, parameterised instructions for recurring tasks. - Automation: scheduled tasks (presets or cron, per-user timezone), signed webhooks, a background task queue and notifications. - Conversations: folders, pins, full-text search, read-only share links, PDF export, locking and a trash with restore. - Personalization: display name, default model, response language, timezone, base style, characteristics and custom instructions. ## Governance - Approval gates: consequential tool calls (sending, writing, deleting) pause until a person approves; unattended runs decline them and explain why. - Audit log: tool calls, approvals, sign-ins and administrative changes are recorded. - Untrusted content: web pages, emails and documents are labelled as untrusted input so instructions inside them are treated as data. - Isolation: each user's files, memories and conversations are private to them; credentials are encrypted at rest. - Hosting and models are the customer's choice. ## Pages - [Home](https://alvireq.ch/en/): product overview, how a deployment works, governance, comparison and FAQ. German: https://alvireq.ch/de/ - [Imprint](https://alvireq.ch/en/imprint/) - [Privacy](https://alvireq.ch/en/privacy/) - [Terms](https://alvireq.ch/en/terms/) - [Data processing agreement](https://alvireq.ch/en/dpa/) - [Subprocessors](https://alvireq.ch/en/subprocessors/) - [Acceptable use](https://alvireq.ch/en/acceptable-use/) - [Security](https://alvireq.ch/en/security/) ## Contact - hello@halvic.ch (Halvic Labs GmbH, Belp, Switzerland)