# Shelf

Shelf is a knowledge and governance platform that turns scattered enterprise documents, files and other knowledge sources into structured, contextualized, quality-checked information. Its Cortex technology adds metadata, relationships, business context, access controls and continuous quality checks. Shelf AI Knowledge Management serves business and knowledge teams, while Cortex as a Service serves technical teams that run it beneath their own AI layer.

Page: https://slateindex.ai/brand/shelf · data of 2026-11-03

## Facts

- Headquarters: New York City, NY, United States
- Employees: 51–200
- Company type: Private, venture-backed
- Latest funding: Series B
- Deployment: Cloud-hosted on AWS, with data centers in the US, Canada and EU
- Best for: Business and knowledge management teams that need governed enterprise knowledge, and technical teams that want a data layer under their own AI applications.
- Compliance: SOC 2 Type II, GDPR, CCPA

## Products

- Shelf AI Knowledge Management: Helps business and knowledge management teams manage, govern, create, find and use enterprise knowledge.
- Cortex: Enriches documents and files with metadata, relationships, context, quality controls and governance for AI.
- Cortex as a Service: Cortex delivered beneath an application or AI experience layer that a team already owns.
- Search Copilot: Search assistant that a customer says has reduced the time agents spend looking for answers.

## Rankings

| Category | Rank | Visibility | Mentions |
|---|---|---|---|
| Knowledge Management | 38 of 52 | 1.5 | 4 |

## By engine

| Engine | Visibility | Mention rate |
|---|---|---|
| chatgpt | 1.9 | 7.4% |
| google_ai_mode | 0.0 | 0.0% |
| perplexity | 2.6 | 7.4% |

## Definitions

- Visibility (0–100): how often and how high AI answers name the brand, weighted by position.
- Mention rate: share of collected AI answers that name the brand.
- Share of voice: the brand's mentions as a share of all brand mentions in the category.
- Citation authority: share of answers naming the brand that cite the brand's own site.

Cite as: SlateIndex, “Shelf AI visibility profile”, https://slateindex.ai/brand/shelf, data of 2026-11-03. Licence: CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).