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Enterprise Knowledge Assistants

Staff ask in plain language and get a cited answer from approved internal sources.

What this is

A permission-aware assistant over your policies, procedures, product documentation and tickets. Every answer carries citations to the passage it came from, retrieval respects your existing access rules, and the system abstains rather than guessing when the answer is not there.

The problem

What this solves

If more than one of these is familiar, there is usually a case worth scoping.

  • Knowledge is spread across drives, wikis, tickets and PDFs and search finds none of it.
  • New staff ask colleagues questions that are documented somewhere.
  • Answers come from superseded documents with no way to tell.
  • Answers without sources have to be verified manually anyway.
How it works

The shape of the build

Indicative. The final design follows your systems, data and constraints.

Your documentsPDF · wiki · ticketsIngestionOCR · structureChunk + embedmetadata + ACLVector searchKeyword searchRerankpermission filterLLMgroundedHYBRID RETRIEVALAnswer with citationsabstains when unsupported
Retrieval-augmented generation: every answer traces back to an approved source passage.
  1. Ingest

    Connectors across file stores, wikis, databases and ticket systems with incremental sync.

  2. Index with permissions

    Access metadata attached at indexing time, enforced during retrieval.

  3. Retrieve well

    Hybrid vector and keyword search with a reranking pass.

  4. Answer with sources

    Grounded answers citing the passage, with explicit abstention when unsupported.

  5. Maintain it

    Freshness tracking, re-indexing and a ranked report of unanswered questions.

Scope

What is included

Deliverables you receive, in your own infrastructure and repositories.

  • Ingestion pipeline across your document and ticket sources
  • Permission-aware retrieval honouring your existing access rules
  • Grounded answering with inline citations
  • Accuracy benchmarks against a question set built with your experts
  • Admin view for content owners
  • Re-indexing schedule and gap reporting
Outcomes

What changes once it is live

Operational changes you should expect. We measure the specific numbers for your business rather than quoting generic figures.

  • Answers traceable to an approved source, every time
  • Less interruption of experienced staff for documented questions
  • Contradictions between documents surfaced rather than hidden
  • A ranked list of knowledge gaps worth writing up
Delivery

How we run the engagement

Our approach

Discovery

Process walkthroughs, data review, constraints and a written scope you sign off before build.

Architecture

Data model, integration boundaries, hosting and the security model, agreed up front.

Proof of concept

A narrow build on your real data against an agreed quality bar, so the go-ahead is evidence-based.

Development

Two-week increments, each ending in a working deployment and a review.

Testing

Automated coverage on critical paths, evaluation sets for AI behaviour, acceptance testing with your users.

Deployment

Staged rollout into your infrastructure with monitoring and a tested rollback path.

Monitoring & support

Quality, cost and latency tracking after launch, with handover documentation or an ongoing retainer.

Questions

Enterprise Knowledge Assistants — FAQs

Does it respect our permissions?

Yes. Access metadata is applied during retrieval, so the model never sees content the user cannot access.

What if our documents contradict each other?

The citations show the conflict and content owners get a report of contradictions to resolve. It does not silently pick one.

How accurate is it?

We measure it. A question set built with your experts gives retrieval and answer accuracy figures before go-live.

Next step

Have an AI or software
challenge to solve?

Let's evaluate your requirements and design a practical, secure and scalable solution for your business. We will tell you honestly whether AI is the right tool, and outline what a first build looks like.

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  • No obligation, no scripted pitch
  • Talk to engineers, not account managers
  • One-week minimum engagement available