iterthink FAQ

An AI document audit trail records every change to a document — human or AI — including who made it, what changed at the word level, and whether a person reviewed it before approval. iterthink calls this a document review layer: it sits between drafting and approval, tracking what changed, who changed it, why it matters, and whether a human has reviewed the result before it becomes final.

Everyone is adding AI that edits documents automatically. iterthink does the opposite — it shows you exactly what changed and lets you decide before anything becomes final.

That is abstract's Review step: disagree with the consensus that speed means skipping human judgment. Control at the right moment beats automatic changes you cannot audit.

Typical SaaS means you rent access, your files live on someone else's servers, and the bill never stops.

iterthink is a desktop app you install once — one payment, every future update, documents stay local. You own the software; you are not locked into a subscription that can change price or disappear.

No. Most cloud tools collect your documents to train models or monetize usage. iterthink keeps everything local.

The contrarian bet is the opposite of data extraction: we help you build organizational knowledge from your own review history — what changed, why it mattered, who approved it — so learning stays inside your company, not in a vendor's cloud.

Google Docs, Notion, and Confluence are mainly writing and knowledge tools, while Bluebeam focuses on drawing markup. iterthink is focused on review governance: word-level diffs, AI-assisted impact analysis, approval gates, and an audit trail for document decisions.

Yes. iterthink is designed so teams can bring their own AI provider, including local models, company-hosted models, or cloud APIs. It does not replace those tools; it adds review, traceability, and approval around AI-assisted document work.

iterthink is designed for teams that need accountable document changes, especially in architecture, engineering, construction, consulting, legal, operations, and other workflows where revisions need to be reviewed before they are trusted.

iterthink supports Markdown, DOCX, and PDF workflows, including vector PDFs and scanned documents. It is designed for structured work with plans, reports, and related project documents.

iterthink records word-level changes, review status, approval decisions, and AI analysis over time. The goal is to make the full path from draft to final document visible instead of hiding decisions across filenames, comments, and chat threads.

Yes. iterthink has a free plan for personal and non-commercial use. Commercial individual, team, and enterprise licenses are available for organizations that need production use, onboarding, and support.

iterthink is installed locally as an app for accessing and reviewing your document workflows. Compliance requirements such as SOC 2 or HIPAA mainly depend on the LLM provider, hosting setup, data processing agreements, and operational controls your team configures around it.