Built on a simple principle.
Only use an LLM when it is absolutely necessary. Most of the work thrown at cloud services by conventional AI tools can be done far more efficiently - and more cheaply - through local, deterministic processes. We build the infrastructure that enforces that principle on your behalf.
Sedasoft
Hydrate is a product of Sedasoft, a software company created by two industry veterans who have approached the challenge of building more efficient and trustworthy AI tools from the context of a combined 50+ years of experience in information and data architecture.
In the rush to embrace AI, the principles of sound data architecture have been discarded in the mistaken belief that you can simply throw unstructured information at an LLM and get value out the other side. We built Sedasoft to prove the alternative: get the structure of your information right first, and the AI becomes a reliable multiplier rather than an expensive gamble.
LLMs last, not first
We never call an LLM where a faster, cheaper, deterministic method will do. Fact deduplication, session summarisation, and context ranking all happen locally - without API calls. LLM extraction is the exception, not the rule.
Your data stays yours
Hydrate runs local-first by design. Your coding sessions, your architectural decisions, your project context - none of it leaves your machine unless you explicitly choose Enterprise sync. No telemetry. No training. No cloud custody.
Architecture before intelligence
Getting the structure of your information right matters more than which model you query it with. Hydrate's architectural canon feature forces that rigour onto AI coding sessions - pinned rules that no prompt can override.
Part of the SiteEngine AI suite
Hydrate was created as part of Sedasoft's SiteEngine AI platform - a seven-component RAG pipeline that opens up the black box of enterprise AI retrieval. SiteEngine AI handles query classification, hybrid vector+graph search, hierarchical summarisation, cognitive memory with decay, and multi-tenant deployment at scale.
Hydrate is the developer-facing product: the part that solves the context-reset problem for individual developers and small teams, using the same architectural principles that power the enterprise platform - but packaged as a single binary that installs in 60 seconds.
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