Choose between broad workspace search (Gemini) or deep, curated expertise (Liminary).

Choose Liminary for a high-signal knowledge system focused on your curated research, rather than the noise of your entire Google Drive.

Google's Gemini is deeply integrated into the tools millions of professionals already use: Gmail, Google Docs, Google Drive, Google Meet. Ask Gemini a question in Google Drive and it searches your files. Use Gemini in Google Docs and it helps you write. It's convenient, familiar, and increasingly capable.

But Gemini's intelligence is broad, not deep. It can search your Drive and summarise your emails, but it doesn't build a curated knowledge base from the specific sources you care about. It doesn't distinguish between the important research you saved deliberately and the thousands of files cluttering your Drive. And it doesn't connect your meeting notes to your competitive research to your client proposals in a way that compounds over time.

Where Gemini stops

Gemini searches across Google Workspace. That sounds comprehensive, but it's actually a limitation. Your Google Drive contains everything: old drafts, shared folders from three jobs ago, random attachments, and the handful of documents that actually matter for your current work. Gemini treats all of it equally.

There is no way to curate what Gemini pays attention to. You cannot create a focused knowledge base of the 50 sources that matter for a specific client and tell Gemini to prioritise those. It searches everything or nothing.

Gemini's meeting integration captures notes from Google Meet, but those notes live in Google Docs as standalone files. They don't connect to the research you've done about that client, the competitive analysis you saved last week, or the proposal template you use for every engagement.

In our benchmarking, Ask Gemini scored 72.7% accuracy on multi-document questions. On hard questions requiring cross-document synthesis, accuracy dropped to 45.5%. When your expertise depends on connecting insights across sources, that gap matters.

Where Liminary goes further

Liminary also works in Google's ecosystem. The Chrome extension saves content while you browse. Recall surfaces knowledge in the Google Docs sidebar while you write. Google Meet integration captures your meetings. But unlike Gemini, Liminary lets you curate exactly what matters.

Collections let you organize knowledge by client, project, or topic. When you query a collection or trigger Recall, Liminary draws only from the sources you've deliberately saved, not from the noise of your entire Drive. The signal-to-noise ratio is fundamentally different.

What Liminary adds that Gemini doesn't

Curated collections. organize your knowledge intentionally. Save what matters, ignore what doesn't. Gemini searches your entire Drive indiscriminately.

Chrome extension. Save web pages, articles, PDFs, and videos from anywhere on the web. Gemini only sees what's already in Google Workspace.

Higher accuracy on hard questions. Liminary scored 88.9% versus Gemini's 72.7% on multi-document retrieval, and 77.8% versus 45.5% on hard questions requiring cross-document synthesis. Liminary also responded in 7.3 seconds versus 10.9 seconds.

Competitive intelligence agents. Set up agents to monitor companies, competitors, or topics on a schedule. Gemini has no background monitoring for individual users.

Fact-check and gap detection. Liminary cross-references your writing against your saved sources while you work in Google Docs. Gemini in Docs helps you write but doesn't verify claims against your specific research.

Shareable and public collections. Build queryable knowledge bases that anyone can access. Gemini's knowledge is tied to your personal Google account.

Meeting notes connected to research. When Liminary captures a Google Meet call, the transcript joins your client collection alongside your research, your saved articles, and your past proposals. Gemini's meeting summaries are standalone documents.

Who should use what

Gemini is convenient if you live entirely in Google Workspace and want AI assistance that's always available inside Gmail, Docs, and Drive. For quick questions about your existing files, it works.

Liminary is for professionals who need more than workspace search. If your knowledge includes web research, external reports, competitive intelligence, and meeting context that needs to connect across clients and projects, Liminary builds the focused, curated knowledge base that Gemini's broad search cannot replicate.

Both work in Google's ecosystem. The difference is depth versus breadth. Gemini searches everything in your Drive. Liminary knows everything you've chosen to remember.