Fabasoft's Mindbreeze InSpire is an insight engine, sold as on-prem appliance, cloud VM or SaaS, that indexes 500+ sources, enforces their permissions per query and grounds customer-chosen LLMs.
Deployment options, customer-selected LLMs and the Fabasoft relationship have separate source pages. https://www.mindbreeze.com/deployment-options https://www.mindbreeze.com/blog/bring-your-own-llm-how-mindbreeze-powers-secure-customizable-ai-in-the-enterprise https://www.mindbreeze.com/certifications.
'500+ data sources'; documented connectors include Windows/Samba file shares, Microsoft Exchange, OpenText Documentum, SharePoint (on-prem and Online), Web crawler, Jira, Confluence (Data Center and Cloud), LDAP/Active Directory, ServiceNow, GraphQL, HCL Notes/Domino; Talend (maintenance only)
Count '500+ data sources' from product page. Also embedded in Microsoft 365, Teams, Outlook, Salesforce.
Limitations
3 queries/s on 500K/1M appliances, 5 on 2M+; max content 50 MB per item; extraction and semantic results not guaranteed complete or correct; backup/disaster recovery not included; no response-time guarantee; 500K/1M appliances do not encrypt stored data; Live Access Check 'can severely reduce the search speed'
Live Access Check quote from https://www.mindbreeze.com/developer/authorization.
Fit and decision conditions
Prerequisites
Appliance in customer data centre or cloud VM (e.g. 1M: 12 cores, 128 GB RAM, 1.7 TB SSD); GPU for on-prem LLM (NVIDIA A40 48 GB recommended, not pre-installed); remote LLM on SaaS via sales
SaaS regions/data centres not named; customer can choose cloud provider (Mindbreeze InSpire SaaS, AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Oracle Cloud) or on-prem appliance in own data centre
https://inspire.mindbreeze.com/trust and https://inspire.mindbreeze.com/trust/security-data-protection redirect to unrelated pages (maintenance reports / certifications); no hosting-location statement found.
Certificates and audit reports
ISAE 3000 SOC 2 Type 2 attestation for Mindbreeze InSpire SaaS by PricewaterhouseCoopers GmbH WPG (report April 2026, period 2025); BSI C5 attestation for Mindbreeze InSpire SaaS (auditor not named); ISO 20000-1 incl. Mindbreeze InSpire SaaS (issuer not named); ISO 27001/27018 referenced for Fabasoft (scope/issuer not named); ISO 9001 Fabasoft group; ISAE 3402 Type 2 (scope not named)
Provider page lists C5 under certificates; C5 is an attestation. Not verified on issuer/registry sites. WACA Silver is an accessibility certificate.
Additional data conditions
Subprocessors and underlying models
Bring-your-own LLM: 'integrate LLMs from OpenAI, Hugging Face, Meta, or others'; open-source, proprietary or self-hosted; Hugging Face TGI on-prem; cloud platforms AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Oracle Cloud for VM/marketplace delivery. Named SaaS sub-processors not found
Austrian vendor (Fabasoft group); German website version available.
Existing permissions
Yes: quote 'Mindbreeze inherits and enforces existing enterprise permissions for every query.' Index ACLs checked at search time; optional Live Access Check queries the source per result at query time
Developer doc (https://www.mindbreeze.com/developer/authorization): Live Access Check 'result of the access rights check is always up to date' but 'can severely reduce the search speed'; two-step ACL + live check option.
Questions for the provider
Ask the provider whether your data is used to train models and which consent controls apply.
Ask the provider for the price, billing unit and required commitment for your scope.
Ask the provider which retention and deletion terms apply, including when the contract ends.
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