Knowledge Assistant

Find the answer behind the folder structure.

Teams lose time navigating internal documents and checking whether guidance is current. A knowledge assistant retrieves authorized source passages and explains the answer with citations.

Plan this workflow
01 / HOW IT CAN WORK

A workflow with explicit responsibilities.

KNOWLEDGE ASSISTANTIllustrative workflow · no external actions

Question

The workflow begins with an authorized input. Teams lose time navigating internal documents and checking whether guidance is current. A knowledge assistant retrieves authorized source passages and explains the answer with citations.

Select any node to inspect its role.

Measure the result.
Understand the exceptions.

Measure source coverage, retrieval quality, unsupported answer rates and permission isolation. An honest “not found” is preferable to a fabricated policy.

What we need to design it

Bring representative inputs, the current process, the systems involved and the person responsible for the final result. We identify missing data, required API access and actions that need approval. Sensitive examples should be appropriately redacted before sharing.

What a pilot should include

A working journey, a review screen where needed, observable failure states and an evaluation against your acceptance criteria. We include the cost of reviewing and correcting output when assessing whether the pilot improves the workflow.

Safe integration

Use scoped service credentials, validated contracts and explicit authorization. Existing business systems remain the source of truth. A generated response or predicted field cannot silently overwrite a record without the validation and approval the workflow requires.

After the first release

Track the failures and unanswered questions, then improve the narrow workflow before increasing scope. Changes to prompts, models, source data or connected APIs should be evaluated because they can alter behavior even when the interface looks unchanged.

02 / UNDERLYING CAPABILITY

RAG & Knowledge Systems

Make internal knowledge usable without asking people to search every folder. Retrieval-augmented generation combines relevant, permission-aware source material with an answer that points back to the evidence.

Explore the engineering
01

Is this a finished product or a solution we can commission?

This page describes a solution approach. We scope and build the implementation around your systems, permissions and requirements. No external actions run from this illustrative workflow.

02

How do we decide whether it is worth building?

Measure source coverage, retrieval quality, unsupported answer rates and permission isolation. An honest “not found” is preferable to a fabricated policy.

03

Can our team keep final control?

Yes. We agree review and escalation rules before implementation and make the exact proposed action visible to an authorized reviewer.

Assess the starting conditions
THE NEXT CHAPTER

Turn the use case into a working system.

Bring the business problem. We’ll work through the architecture together.

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