Grounded answers, citations, and permissions—internal Copilots that do not leak what employees should not see.

Ask your docs—not the whole internet—with citations your teams can verify

We implement retrieval pipelines over your Confluence, SharePoint, and tickets with ACL-aware chunking—queries only surface content the user already could open. Answers include citations to source passages; refusal behavior aligns to your policy for HR, legal, and customer data. Evaluation harnesses measure faithfulness and latency per corpus—releases promote models and prompts with regression tests, not vibes from one demo.

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01 // THE MANDATE

Grounded answers, citations, and permissions—internal Copilots that do not leak what employees should not see.

We implement retrieval pipelines over your Confluence, SharePoint, and tickets with ACL-aware chunking—queries only surface content the user already could open. Answers include citations to source passages; refusal behavior aligns to your policy for HR, legal, and customer data.

Evaluation harnesses measure faithfulness and latency per corpus—releases promote models and prompts with regression tests, not vibes from one demo.

02 // ENGINEERING

Development process

Structured phases—from discovery to launch—with clear ownership and handoff points.

Corpus audit (weeks 1–4)

Sensitivity tiers, retention, connector priorities.

MVP (weeks 4–12)

One primary corpus, web chat, citations, SSO.

Pilot (weeks 10–16)

Department rollout; feedback loops.

Hardening (weeks 14–22)

Eval suite; red-team fixes; DR testing.

Operate (ongoing)

Model updates; connector additions; cost controls.

03 // CAPABILITIES

Core Capability Matrix

The building blocks of your solution

Connectors

OAuth crawls; incremental sync; deletes.

Chunking

structure-aware; tables optional.

Embeddings

hosted or bring-your-key optional.

Retrieval

hybrid search; rerankers optional.

Chat

streaming; session memory scopes.

Guardrails

PII redaction optional; topic blocks.

Admin

corpus health; gap reports.

Analytics

usage; thumbs; unsafe flags.

SSO

SAML/OIDC; group mapping.

API

Slack/Teams bots optional; mobile SDK optional.

04 // DELIVERY LIFECYCLE

The strategic roadmap

Milestones and checkpoints—each phase has a clear outcome before the next begins.

Milestone 01Delivery

Weeks 1–4: Security review and data map.

Milestone 02Delivery

Weeks 5–10: Internal alpha on sanitized corpus.

Milestone 03Delivery

Weeks 11–16: Pilot business unit.

Milestone 04Delivery

Weeks 17–22: Enterprise-wide with SLOs.

Milestone 05Delivery

Ongoing: Quarterly eval refresh; new LLM options.

05 // PRODUCT SCOPING

Choosing your path

Two engagement models—start lean and iterate, or commit to a full platform build from day one.

MVP

Speed & essentialism

Phase 1
MVP: single-tenant RAG, 1–2 connectors, citation-first answers, SSO, admin usage dashboard, export of conversations optional. Excludes multi-agent automation and customer-facing unauthenticated search. Proves retrieval quality before scope creep.
Recommended

Full product

Enterprise maturity

All-in
Enterprise AI platform: multi-corpus, agents with tool use, VPC deployment, fine-tuning optional, full red-team program, FinOps dashboards.

06 // PARTNERSHIP

Why work together

A single accountable partner across strategy, build, and go-live—not a revolving door of vendors.

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Direct collaboration

End-to-end ownership: discovery, architecture, implementation, and launch—with clear communication and production-grade engineering.

  • Discovery & alignment
  • Systems that scale
  • Implementation depth
  • Clear comms

07 // CLARITY

Frequently asked

Citation requirements, abstention prompts, and eval gates reduce—but do not eliminate—risk; human review for high-stakes workflows.

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