Build a chatbot that answers questions from your documents

Upload a PDF and this builds a searchable knowledge base so a chatbot can answer questions using your own content.

How the work actually flows

A straight line. Runs once per each text chunk.

Pattern: Sequence (1) · Multiple Instances without Synchronization (12) · Transient Trigger (23)

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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 & RAGDocument Processing & OCRSpreadsheet & Database Ops
Connects
JotformSupabaseTogether AIGoogle Gemini

The problem it solves

Your team and customers keep asking the same questions that are already answered somewhere in your manuals, policies, or product docs. Nobody wants to dig through a PDF every time, and a generic chatbot that doesn't know your content just makes up answers.

Who it fits

Businesses that want a chatbot that answers accurately from their own manuals, policies, or product documentation.

How it works

  1. You upload a PDF document through a simple form
  2. The document's text is extracted and broken into searchable chunks
  3. Each chunk is stored in a database as a searchable reference
  4. When someone asks the chatbot a question, it searches your documents for the relevant answer and replies using only that content
What you get

Questions answered from your own manuals

Upload a manual or policy document and your chatbot answers customer questions directly from it, accurately and in your own words.

What you get

A chatbot that answers questions accurately using your own uploaded documents.

What you need

A form tool, a Supabase database, and API access to an AI model.

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.

Let's Talk Strategy

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