CTERA Search

Find Answers, Not Just Files

From Lost Files to Instant Knowledge

In a data-driven world, the inability to find information is a critical business failure. Traditional search tools are blind to the content locked inside files, forcing employees to waste countless hours recreating work that already exists. CTERA Search transforms your entire file system into a responsive, searchable knowledge base, allowing you to move beyond shallow, metadata-only searches to find the exact information you need, right when you need it.

Solving Key Collaboration Challenges

Lost Productivity and Redundant Work

When employees cannot find existing data, they are forced to recreate it. This wastes valuable time, slows down projects, and leads to data sprawl as multiple versions of the same file are created.

Inaccessible Data

Critical intelligence is often locked inside scanned documents, images, and audio/video files, making it completely invisible to traditional search tools that only read filenames and basic metadata.

Security Risks in Data Discovery

Enterprise search tools that don’t rigorously enforce permissions can expose sensitive data to unauthorized users, creating significant security and compliance risks, especially during eDiscovery or internal audits.

Core Capabilities

Deep Content Indexing

At the heart of our solution is a powerful engine that indexes the complete text of your files, supporting hundreds of formats from office documents to design files. It reads inside the file, transforming your entire repository into a searchable knowledge base where no information is ever lost or overlooked.

Intelligence Across All File Types

We find the knowledge others can’t see. Our engine uses Optical Character Recognition (OCR) to read text within scanned documents and images, and audio-to-text transcription to make the spoken content in video and audio files fully searchable. What was once invisible is now instantly discoverable.

Secure by Design

Access to information must never compromise security. CTERA Search is built directly into the file system and natively inherits all existing Access Control Lists (ACLs). Users can only find and see results from files they already have permission to access, guaranteeing security is automatically and rigorously enforced.

Connect to AI Tooling via MCP

CTERA Search is accessible to any compatible AI model, product or agent through the Model Context Protocol (MCP), enabling deep content discovery across your enterprise file system in real time, enabling users to locate and retrieve relevant files as part of agentic workflows, without data ever leaving your governed environment.

Power Agentic Knowledge Workflows with n8n

CTERA Search integrates natively with n8n, enabling agentic knowledge workflows that span your entire distributed unstructured data environment, from the edge to the cloud. Find relevant files, pass content into AI services, and generate summaries, reports, or responses — all while keeping your data under CTERA’s governance and control.

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