Overview
ContextIQ Essentials is an MCP-native knowledge server that gives Cowork, Claude Desktop, and AI agents governed access to enterprise knowledge sources. It sits between AI consumers and your organization's documents, controlling which sources each user can query, returning cited answers with source evidence, and keeping retrieval scoped to authorized entitlements. ContextIQ uses Model Context Protocol (MCP) with Streamable HTTP transport, making it compatible with any MCP-enabled AI assistant or agent framework.
The product deploys into your AWS account using CloudFormation. The quickstart provisions Amazon Bedrock AgentCore for running ContextIQ Agents, ECS-based ContextIQ MCP servers, and tools that integrate with Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases, S3 Vectors for low-cost vector storage. ContextIQ stack includes user authentication, secure VPC based deployment of application services, a browser-based chat interface, and a Cowork/Claude Desktop setup package. Sample enterprise content is included so teams can evaluate governed knowledge access immediately without preparing their own data. Enterprise data never leaves the customer's AWS account.
ContextIQ Essentials is the starting point for teams evaluating governed agentic AI access patterns. Use it to validate entitlement-scoped retrieval, cited responses, and multi-source knowledge routing before expanding to ContextIQ Enterprise Preview - which adds broader source coverage, custom guardrails, domain-specific validation, and guided rollout for regulated industries.
Highlights
- Built for Cowork, Claude Desktop, and AI agents - ContextIQ exposes enterprise knowledge as MCP tools so AI assistants retrieve only what each user is entitled to access, with cited source evidence in every response.
- Governed knowledge access in your AWS account - Deploy with CloudFormation into your own VPC with Amazon Bedrock AgentCore agents, ECS-based MCP servers, Bedrock Knowledge Bases, and S3 Vectors. Enterprise data never leaves your account.
- Start with Essentials, expand with Enterprise Preview - Evaluate governed agentic AI access patterns today with sample content and a working deployment, then engage ContextIQ Enterprise Preview for broader source coverage, custom guardrails, and guided rollout for regulated industries.
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ContextIQ Essentials is provided at no software charge. Customers are responsible for AWS infrastructure and model usage costs incurred in their own account. No refund applies as there is no software fee.
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ContextIQ Essentials - CloudFormation Deployment
- Amazon ECS
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Containers are lightweight, portable execution environments that wrap server application software in a filesystem that includes everything it needs to run. Container applications run on supported container runtimes and orchestration services, such as Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) or Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS). Both eliminate the need for you to install and operate your own container orchestration software by managing and scheduling containers on a scalable cluster of virtual machines.
Version release notes
ContextIQ Essentials v2.0.0 - Follow-up suggestions after answers, confidence score in answer footer, cross-region ECR support, improved CORS preflight handling, and Nexus UI updates. Upgrade path to ContextIQ Enterprise v2.0.0 available.
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Usage instructions
See product README for full deployment steps. Quickstart template: https://contextiq-releases.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/essentials/v2.0.0/templates/quickstart.yaml
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Vendor support
Email support for Marketplace deployment, quickstart usage, and initial configuration. Contact hello@contextiq.us . Target response time: 2 business days for ContextIQ Essentials. Enterprise Preview onboarding and expanded support available by engagement.
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