The Knowledge App · Launching soon

Where knowledge becomes understanding.

Hokma brings together a curated library, your own documents, and the live web — and turns passive reading into active, lasting learning. Every answer grounded in real sources. Every claim cited.

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Cell Biology Plant Physiology My lecture notes

Chapter 4 · Energy in Living Systems

… chloroplasts host the entire process. In the first stage, the light-dependent reactions capture photons and store their energy as ATP. This energy does not remain idle: the Calvin cycle consumes it to fix carbon dioxide into glucose, the sugar on which the plant — and everything that eats it — depends. Nearly every food web on Earth begins with this quiet exchange of light for matter.

Explain photosynthesis simply — using my sources.
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Why Hokma

Information is everywhere. Understanding is scarce.

Whether you're teaching a course, preparing for an exam, parsing case law, or getting up to speed in a new field, the hard part isn't finding information — it's turning it into understanding that lasts. Hokma is one workspace where you read, question, study, and retain, with an AI that always shows its sources.

One workspace

Three sources of knowledge. One place to learn.

A curated library

A professionally digitized collection you can read in full — and the vetted corpus behind every AI answer. When Hokma answers, it isn't guessing; it's retrieving and synthesizing from real books.

Your own materials

Bring PDFs, Word documents, audio, video, images, and web links. Everything is automatically read, transcribed, and indexed — ready to search, question, summarize, and study alongside the library.

The live web

Pull in current information from the web to keep your study up to date, without leaving the app — complementing your sources, never replacing them.

📚Library books
📄PDFs & Word docs
🎧Audio & video
🖼️Images & scans
🔗Web links
📝Your notes
How it works

From first page to full command.

Read

A clean, multi-tab reader with split-screen study and an intelligent highlight menu that turns any passage into a question, a summary, a translation, or a trail across the entire library.

Ask

A tutor beside your reading or in open chat, answering from exactly the sources you choose — one book, your uploads, or the whole library — with citations you can click and verify.

Study

One action turns any book, document, or selection into summaries, study guides, quizzes, flashcards, mind maps, knowledge graphs, or a podcast-style audio overview.

Retain

Notes stay linked to the passages that inspired them, progress carries across sessions, and light in-reading check-ins keep active reading honest.

Made for you

One engine. Your kind of learning.

A tutor for every course

Scope Hokma to a course's assigned readings and give every student unlimited, patient Q&A — always answered from the texts you chose, never from the open internet.

Insight into engagement

Progress tracking and attention-aware reading check-ins show whether material is actually being absorbed — not just assigned.

Administration built in

Role-based access control, secure authentication, and institutional licensing. Shared workspaces and study groups are on the way.

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Master the material

Turn any chapter into quizzes at the difficulty you choose, flashcards for fast review, and summaries tuned to exactly the depth you need.

Understand, don't memorize

Select any hard passage and have it explained in plain terms, cross-referenced across the library, or placed in its historical context.

Study anywhere

Podcast-style audio overviews and read-aloud turn commutes and workouts into study time.

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Synthesize at speed

Upload a corpus of papers, reports, or case law and ask questions across all of it at once — one synthesized answer, drawn from many sources.

Cite with confidence

Every claim traces to a source and page, so what you learn in Hokma can go straight into your own work — verified.

See the structure

Auto-built knowledge graphs reveal how concepts, people, and events connect — navigate a new domain by its relationships, not page order.

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Highlights

Everything you need to go deeper.

A reader built for depth

Select any passage and explain, define, cross-reference, translate, or question it — without ever leaving the page.

A tutor that shows its work

Every answer is anchored to real sources and shows its citations, so you can trust it and trace it back.

Instant study material

Summaries, quizzes, flashcards, mind maps, and knowledge graphs — generated from any source, on demand.

Learn on the move

Turn dense material into a podcast-style conversation, have any text read aloud, and speak your questions instead of typing.

Any language

Translate a passage, a chapter, or a whole book — and get answers in the language you choose.

A second memory

Highlights, notes, and annotations become a searchable personal knowledge base you can question like everything else.

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The difference

“How is this different from ChatGPT?”

Fair question. General AI chat is remarkable at many things — Hokma is built for one: learning you can trust.

HokmaGeneral AI chat
Where answers come fromRetrieved from a vetted library, your documents, and sources you chooseOpaque training data plus the open internet
CitationsEvery claim cited — down to the book and pageSometimes, often unverifiable
FabricationGrounded by design; if it isn't in the sources, Hokma says soCan invent plausible-sounding answers
Your materialsA full reader and study workspace around your uploadsAttachments in a chat box
Built-in study toolsQuizzes, flashcards, mind maps, knowledge graphs, audio overviewsChat only
Built forLearners, educators, and institutionsEveryone and everything
Under the hood, in plain words

How Hokma thinks.

No mystery, no magic — a disciplined process that runs in under a second, every time you ask.

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Ingest

Every book and upload is scanned, checked, and indexed by meaning — not just keywords.

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You ask

A question, a highlighted passage, or “compare these three chapters.”

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Retrieve

Hokma finds the exact passages that bear on your question — across every source you allowed.

Ground

The answer is built only from those passages. Nothing in the sources? Hokma tells you.

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Cite

Every claim links back to its book and page, so you can check anything in one click.

The full story, still in plain words →

Purpose-built for learning

Trust isn't a feature. It's the foundation.

Your data stays yours

Your uploads and notes are private, protected by secure authentication, and never added to the shared library.

Grounded by design

Guardrails and expert evaluation keep answers anchored to sources — fabrication isn't an occasional bug to fix, it's designed out.

Built on learning science

Active reading, self-testing, and spaced review — the study tools implement what decades of research say actually works.

You hold the reins

You decide which sources inform every answer. Narrow it to one book or open it to the whole library — always your call.

Questions

Asked and answered.

General AI chat draws on opaque training data and can invent plausible-sounding answers. Hokma is an AI tutor with citations: every answer is retrieved from a vetted library, your own documents, and sources you choose — and every claim links back to the exact book and page. Around that engine sits a full reading and study workspace: a multi-tab reader, quizzes, flashcards, mind maps, knowledge graphs, and audio overviews.

Answers are built only from the sources in play — Hokma's curated library, your uploads, and (when you want it) the live web. If the sources don't contain an answer, Hokma says so rather than guessing. Every response shows numbered citations you can click to jump to the original passage.

A professionally digitized, continually broadening collection across disciplines — readable in full inside the app, and used by the AI for cross-referencing and deeper answers. Hokma retrieves across hundreds of volumes in under a second today, and the library is architected to grow into the tens of thousands.

Yes — PDFs, Word documents, audio, video, images, and web links. Everything is automatically processed and indexed, so you can search it, question it, summarize it, and generate study material from it, right alongside the built-in library.

Your uploads and notes are yours. They're protected by secure authentication and role-based access control, are never added to the shared library, and aren't used to train models. Institutions get organization-level controls on top.

Translation runs throughout the app: translate a highlighted passage inline, read a whole book in your language, keep the original and translation side by side, and get the tutor's answers in the language you prefer.

Soon — we're hardening the platform for public release now. Join the waitlist and you'll get a confirmation right away, occasional build-up updates, and your invitation as soon as your spot opens, in order of signup. Institutions can get in earlier through the founding partner program.

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