Answer questions from your documents with AI and cited sources

Lets you ask questions about your files and get AI answers that name exactly which document they came from.

How the work actually flows

A straight line. Runs once per each document chunk.

Pattern: Sequence (1) ยท Multiple Instances without Synchronization (12)

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Starts itA stepRuns once per itemResultPayoff
Build size
Advanced

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

Business functions
AI Chatbots & AssistantsKnowledge Base & RAGAPI & Webhook IntegrationFile & Cloud Storage
Connects
Google DriveOpenAIGoogle GeminiQdrant

The problem it solves

Your team's knowledge is scattered across dozens of files in Google Drive, and nobody wants to dig through them for one answer. When someone does find an answer, there's no easy way to prove where it came from. You need a faster way to search your own documents without losing trust in the results.

Who it fits

Teams that want to search a growing library of internal documents and get trustworthy, sourced answers.

How it works

  1. Files added to a Google Drive folder are automatically read in
  2. Each document is broken into chunks and turned into searchable AI embeddings
  3. A question typed into chat is matched against the most relevant chunks
  4. AI writes an answer using only those chunks
  5. The answer comes back with the names of the source documents
What you get

Document answers found without manual searching

You get instant answers to your questions pulled from your own documents, with the exact source named every time.

What you get

A chat-based answer to your question, with the source documents listed alongside it.

What you need

A Google account for Drive, an OpenAI API key, a Google AI account for Gemini, and a Qdrant vector database.

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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