Knowledge assistant with retrieval
An internal assistant that answers questions from approved documents, cites its sources, and hands off to a person when it is unsure.
The business problem
Support and operations teams search wikis, PDFs, past tickets, and policy documents to answer routine questions. Answers vary depending on who is asked, and new staff take longer to become effective.
How we would approach it
Index approved sources with permission metadata, retrieve relevant passages for each question, and generate an answer with citations. Low-confidence answers route to a subject-matter expert, and every answer can be rated.
Key components
- Document ingestion and chunking
- Permission-aware retrieval
- Answers with source citations
- Evaluation set from historical questions
- Feedback capture and escalation
What we would measure
- Accuracy on an agreed evaluation set
- Citation correctness
- Escalation rate
- Time to resolve routine questions
Baselines and targets are agreed during discovery. This concept does not describe a past engagement or reported result.

