Turn your PDF library into a searchable knowledge base

Reads your PDFs with AI and stores them so you or your team can search across all of them by meaning, not just keywords.

How the work actually flows

A straight line. Runs once per each document chunk.

Pattern: Multiple Instances with a priori Run-Time Knowledge (14)

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Starts itAn outside serviceRuns once per itemA personA record or sheetResultPayoff
Build size
Advanced

A larger build with multiple systems, AI reasoning, and custom rules.

Business functions
AI Agents & Autonomous SystemsKnowledge Base & RAGDocument Processing & OCRSurvey & Feedback
Connects
Mistral AIWeaviateCohere

The problem it solves

You have contracts, manuals, research, or reports scattered across PDFs, and finding one specific detail means opening file after file. Keyword search in your file explorer doesn't understand what you're actually looking for.

Who it fits

Businesses that manage a large library of PDFs, like contracts, manuals, or research, and need to find answers fast.

How it works

  1. You upload a PDF through a simple form
  2. The AI reads and extracts the text, even from scanned pages
  3. The document is broken into chunks and stored in a searchable database
  4. You or your team can then ask questions and get answers pulled from those documents
What you get

Answers found across your whole PDF library

You get a searchable knowledge base built from your PDFs, so your team can find answers by meaning, not only keywords.

What you get

A searchable knowledge base of your PDFs that returns relevant answers instead of raw documents.

What you need

A Mistral AI account, a Weaviate database account, and a Cohere account.

We can build this. But should you?

The hard question is not how to build it. It is whether this is the right thing to build first.

That is what a Fractional Chief AI Officer figures out with you, before anyone writes a line of code.

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