Haystack

Haystack by deepset is an open-source AI orchestration framework and enterprise platform designed for building custom, production-grade AI agents and applications. It empowers organizations to develop sophisticated AI solutions like Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG), intelligent document processing (IDP), semantic search, and text-to-SQL, ensuring trust, control, and reliability. The platform caters to innovators and enterprises that require robust, transparent, and sovereign AI deployments. It allows for flexible deployment options including cloud, VPC, on-premise, or air-gapped environments, ensuring sensitive data remains secure. Haystack provides modular building blocks, extensive documentation, and a component library, enabling developers to create highly customized AI pipelines and integrate their own logic and tools. The enterprise offerings include dedicated support, expert consulting, and a platform for visual pipeline building, stakeholder testing, governance, and scalable deployment. Haystack is ideal for teams looking to accelerate LLM development, ground AI in enterprise knowledge, automate complex document analysis, and enable natural language querying of structured data, all while maintaining full control over their AI architecture and ensuring measurable business outcomes.