Nobody can find what we already know
The answer exists in a document somewhere and it is faster to ask a colleague than to search for it.
What is actually going on
The content is unstructured, so nothing indexes it usefully. Extraction into structured records, then retrieval that cites what it used, is what turns an archive into something answerable. The hard part is permission aware retrieval, so an assistant cannot surface a document the person asking could not open.
Who usually owns this
IT director, Knowledge leader, COO
How people describe it
- "AI answers based on company documents"
- "chatbot that cites internal documents"
- "make PDFs emails and recordings searchable"
What resolves it
- RAG Consulting. RAG consulting: retrieval-augmented generation grounded in your documents, with vector databases, citations, and access controls, so AI answers from your data.
- AEO and GEO Services. AEO and GEO services that get your brand cited in ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI answers. Answer content, schema, llms feeds, and cross-engine measurement.
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