askmii vs Claude Cowork & Projects: the last mile on your infrastructure
The short answer: Claude Cowork, Projects and Memory are excellent horizontal, Claude-only tools from Anthropic, built for individual users over their chats and local files. askmii is the last mile — it takes Claude (and other models), wraps it in your vertical, deploys it on infrastructure you own, and runs it for your whole team. We are not competing with Anthropic; Anthropic is our engine.
At a glance
| Dimension | askmii | Claude Cowork / Projects |
|---|---|---|
| Scope | Vertical — built for your industry | Horizontal — built for everyone |
| Models | Multi-LLM orchestrated (Claude + GPT + Perplexity) | Claude only |
| Users | Whole team, per-user isolation | Individual-centric |
| Hosting | Infrastructure you own | Anthropic's cloud |
| Data sources | Your email / drive / calendar / docs, connected for you | Your chats + a local folder + MCP connectors |
| Operated by | Us — onboarded and maintained | You, yourself |
Where Claude is genuinely strong
Claude is, in our view, the best engine available — and Cowork, Projects, Memory and MCP connectors are powerful, fast-moving, and now broadly available. For an individual who lives in Claude and wants it to work over their own files and remember their preferences, that is excellent. We use Claude ourselves.
Where askmii is different — the "wall of 80%"
A foundation model and its first-party tools get you the first 80% easily. The last 20% is the work: deploying into your infrastructure, connecting your real data sources, isolating data per user across a team, specialising to your industry, orchestrating multiple models, and maintaining it as everything changes.
- Vertical — askmii knows your business on day one; Claude is general by design.
- Sovereign — runs on infrastructure you own, not a shared cloud.
- Team-wide — per-user isolation across the organisation, not one person's workspace.
- Multi-LLM — Claude is one engine among several askmii orchestrates.
- Done-for-you — onboarded, pre-loaded and maintained, with a proactive interview that captures know-how no chat history holds.
You absorb Anthropic's innovation; you keep your own vertical brain. See the FAQ or the category comparison.