Foundation Layer

RAG & Knowledge Retrieval

Grounds every AI response in an organization's own documents, records and policies.

The problem

What breaks without this

  • General-purpose models cannot answer questions about internal policies, product documentation or case history.
  • Without retrieval grounding, agents are prone to producing plausible but incorrect answers.
  • Sensitive documents require access control that a naive search index does not enforce.
In one paragraph

Provides the ingestion, indexing and retrieval infrastructure that lets agents answer from an organization's actual knowledge base rather than a model's general training data, with source citations attached to every answer.

Capabilities

What it does

Connectors for document repositories, wikis, ticketing systems, structured databases and file shares.

Configurable chunking and embedding pipelines with support for versioned re-indexing.

Hybrid retrieval — semantic and keyword — with re-ranking for precision on domain-specific terminology.

Source citation on every generated answer, linked back to the originating document and section.

Document-level and field-level access control enforced at retrieval time, not only at the source system.

How it works

From request to result

01

Connect

Source systems are connected via read-only connectors that respect existing permission structures.

02

Index

Content is chunked, embedded and indexed, with scheduled re-indexing to reflect updates.

03

Retrieve

A query triggers hybrid retrieval and re-ranking against the index, scoped to the requesting user's access.

04

Cite

The generating agent receives retrieved passages and returns an answer with citations back to source documents.

Governance & security

Built to be audited, not just used

  • Retrieval never bypasses source-system permissions; a user cannot retrieve content they could not already access.
  • Citations make every answer traceable to a specific document version.
  • Stale or deprecated content can be excluded from retrieval without deleting the source record.
Integrates with

Fits existing infrastructure

Document management systems Intranet / wiki platforms CRM and ERP records Ticketing systems Enterprise AI Gateway

Exposed to agents through the Model Context Protocol (MCP) for tool and data access, and Agent-to-Agent (A2A) messaging for multi-agent handoff — so third-party and custom agents can integrate without proprietary connectors.

What changes

Outcomes to expect

Qualitative, directional outcomes. We do not publish unverified performance figures — see the case studies section for engagement-specific, authorized results.

  • Answers reflect current internal policy and documentation instead of generic model knowledge.
  • Subject-matter experts spend less time answering the same repeat questions.
  • Every AI-generated answer can be checked against its source, supporting review and correction.

Evaluate RAG & Knowledge Retrieval for your environment

Talk to an architect about integration into your existing stack, or request a scoped demo against a representative use case.