Build a chatbot that answers questions from your own documents

Lets customers or staff ask questions and get accurate answers pulled directly from your company's documents.

How the work actually flows

A straight line.

Pattern: Sequence (1)

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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 & RAGSpreadsheet & Database OpsFile & Cloud StorageCustomer Support & Ticketing
Connects
OpenAIGoogle DriveSupabase

The problem it solves

Your team's knowledge lives scattered across manuals, reports, and files that nobody has time to search through. Generic chatbots can't answer questions about your specific business because they've never seen your documents.

Who it fits

Support, operations, or research teams that need a chatbot that knows their own internal documents.

How it works

  1. Your documents are uploaded from Google Drive
  2. The content is broken into pieces and stored in a searchable database
  3. When someone asks a question, the system finds the most relevant document sections
  4. AI combines that content with its own knowledge to write an accurate answer
  5. The answer is delivered in a chat conversation
What you get

Questions answered straight from your files

Your team or customers can ask questions and get answers pulled directly from your company documents.

What you get

Accurate, document-based answers delivered through a chat interface.

What you need

An OpenAI account, a Google Drive account, and a Supabase 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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