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RAG & Knowledge Bases

Teach AI your business, not the whole internet.

What it is

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) lets an AI answer questions using your documents — SOPs, contracts, past proposals — instead of guessing from public training data.

Why it matters for your business

A small to medium-sized business's edge is its institutional knowledge. RAG makes that knowledge searchable and reusable by every employee, day one.

Where to start

  • New-hire Q&A assistant trained on your handbook
  • "How did we price the last three jobs like this?"
  • Instant policy answers grounded in your own documents
Watch out

Garbage in, garbage out. Clean up your source documents before you index them.

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