Ask questions and get accurate answers from your own documents

Turns your documents and spreadsheets into a searchable knowledge base you can ask questions in plain English.

How the work actually flows

A straight line. Runs once per one per question variant.

Pattern: Sequence (1) ยท Multiple Instances with a priori Design-Time Knowledge (13)

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Build size
Advanced

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

Business functions
AI Agents & Autonomous SystemsAI Chatbots & AssistantsKnowledge Base & RAGSurvey & Feedback
Connects
OpenAIAnthropicPineconeSupabaseHugging Face

The problem it solves

Digging through files and spreadsheets to find one specific answer wastes time, and it only gets worse as your library of documents grows. You want to just ask a question and get a straight, accurate answer instead of hunting file by file.

Who it fits

Businesses with a large library of documents or data who want a reliable way to search and ask questions about it.

How it works

  1. You upload your documents and data to build a searchable knowledge base
  2. When you ask a question, AI rewrites it into several versions to find the best matches
  3. It searches the knowledge base for the most relevant information
  4. AI reads the results and writes a clear, direct answer back to you
What you get

Answers pulled straight from your own records

You can ask plain-English questions about your documents and spreadsheets and get a direct, accurate answer pulled straight from your own records.

What you get

A direct, accurate answer to your question, pulled from your own documents and data.

What you need

An OpenAI or Anthropic API key, a Pinecone account, a Supabase account, and a Hugging Face 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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