An enterprise assistant for knowledge work
AI knowledge assistant development services — an enterprise knowledge assistant that searches, synthesises and drafts across your documents and systems, permission-aware, with citations and governance.
Quick answerAn AI knowledge assistant is an internal tool that lets employees ask questions, search and draft across the organisation’s knowledge — documents, wikis, tickets, CRM and databases — getting synthesised, cited answers that respect each user’s access permissions.
What a knowledge assistant does
Answer & search
Natural-language questions across every connected source, with citations to exact passages.
Synthesise & compare
Pull together an answer from multiple documents, and compare positions or versions.
Draft
First drafts of briefs, responses and summaries grounded in your material.
Permission-aware
Retrieval and answers filtered to the requesting user's entitlements.
Where people work
A dedicated app or embedded in Slack, Teams, Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace.
Trust signals
Refusal on thin evidence, groundedness scoring, and analytics on usefulness.
Different jobs, shared core
| Dimension | Knowledge assistant (this page) | RAG chatbot |
|---|---|---|
| Primary user | Employees doing knowledge work | Customers or support agents |
| Main jobs | Search, synthesis, comparison, drafting | Conversational Q&A |
| Sources | Many internal systems at once | A defined knowledge base |
| Surface | Embedded in work tools | Website, in-product, chat |
| Shared | The retrieval and grounding core | The retrieval and grounding core |
From sources to an assistant people use
Connect
Index your sources with permission metadata and change detection.
Prototype
A working assistant on real questions and tasks in a few weeks.
Tune
Retrieval, synthesis and refusal against a curated task set.
Embed
Into the tools employees already use, with SSO.
Improve
Usage and feedback continuously improve retrieval and prompts.
Knowledge assistants that hold up
Permission-aware
Mirrors source-system access — the assistant never surfaces what a user cannot see.
Grounded with citations
Answers link to the exact passages; refuses when evidence is thin.
GraphRAG experience
Context-aware retrieval for questions where relationships matter.
Platforms behind the team
RLCatalyst and Spectra accelerate build and run.
Measured usefulness
Groundedness and task-success scored, not just deployed.
In the flow of work
Embedded where people already are, not another tab to remember.
- AWS
- DataStax
- Salesforce
- Snowflake
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Content last reviewed: September 2026
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Want your teams to stop hunting for answers?
Tell us your sources and the knowledge work involved and we will design an assistant plan.
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