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An AI Assistant That Answers From Your Own Documents

The answer already exists somewhere — in a policy PDF, an old email thread, a contract, last quarter's report. But finding it means someone remembering which document, opening five folders, and reading three pages to confirm one line.

So the same questions get asked again and again, the person who knows becomes the bottleneck, and decisions wait on a search. Meanwhile a generic chatbot is worse than useless here: it will confidently invent an answer your documents never contained.

How it works

1
Connect your knowledge

We point the assistant at the documents and data you choose — handbooks, contracts, past reports, spec sheets — and leave the rest untouched.

2
Ground every answer

It answers only from your material, not from the open internet, so replies reflect how your business actually works, not a plausible guess.

3
Cite the source

Each answer shows which document and passage it came from, so your team can trust it in one glance and open the original when it matters.

4
Say when it doesn't know

If your documents don't hold the answer, it says so plainly instead of inventing one — the single most important habit a business assistant can have.

What it produces

Example scenario
What's our cancellation window for annual contracts?
Service-Agreement.pdfPolicy-Handbook.pdfFAQ-intern.docx
Annual contracts can be cancelled up to 30 days before renewal.
Source: Service-Agreement.pdf · §7.2

Illustrative example — not real customer data.

What it's worth

A rough, illustrative estimate for a business running this task by hand. Move the numbers to your reality in the calculator.

Saved per year
€8,237
Typical payback
≈ 25 weeks

Illustrative estimate on conservative assumptions — your real figures depend on volume and the specific workflow. Not a quote.

Calculate with your own numbers

Common questions

How is this different from asking a normal chatbot?
A general chatbot answers from the public internet and will guess when it doesn't know. This answers only from your documents and cites the source, so you get your facts, not a confident invention.
What happens if the answer isn't in our documents?
It tells you it doesn't have it, rather than making something up. We treat that honesty as a core feature — a wrong answer delivered confidently is far more expensive than a plain "not in your files".
Where does our data go, and is it kept private?
We design it around your privacy requirements — your documents stay scoped to your assistant, and where personal or sensitive data is involved we build the data-processing basis in rather than bolting it on. Nothing here is off-the-shelf; we set it up for you.

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