- What is an AI knowledge assistant?
- A program your team asks questions in plain sentences, and that answers from your own documents: manuals, contracts, tickets, code. Under every answer is the source. It replaces digging through the shared drive and asking the one colleague who knows.
- What is a RAG system?
- A system built on retrieval-augmented generation (RAG). Before it answers, the model gets the matching sections from your documents and answers from them instead of from memory. Our own knowledge store is named after it, Zeasy RAG, and has been running since 2025.
- Is a RAG system the same as an AI chatbot on your own data?
- At its core, yes. You type a question and get an answer from your company knowledge instead of from the model’s memory. With us, two things come on top: under every answer is the source, and access rights apply during the search itself. Some call this an AI knowledge base or internal AI search.
- Aren’t ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot or NotebookLM with your own files enough?
- For one person and a few files an off-the-shelf tool is often enough, and if so we tell you in the intro call. We build a dedicated assistant when many people ask who shouldn’t all see the same things, when the documents change all the time, or when the data shouldn’t leave the company.
- What is the difference between RAG and fine-tuning?
- With RAG the knowledge stays in the documents and the model looks it up. When a document changes, the next answer comes from the new version. With fine-tuning a model learns a behavior, such as assigning tickets to the right department. That’s how we built the AI ticket routing. For questions put to manuals and contracts, looking things up is the right way.
- Does a RAG system hallucinate?
- A language model on its own writes a fluent sentence even when it doesn’t know the answer. That is called hallucination. We build the RAG system to answer only from sections it found and to attach them as sources. If it finds nothing, it says so. You can check every answer against its source with one click.
- What happens when the assistant doesn’t know the answer?
- It says it found nothing in the documents. We build it to answer only from sections it found. Questions without a match can be collected, they show which document is missing.
- Does every employee see every document?
- No. You decide who may ask about what, by user, role or tenant. Access rights apply during the search itself. A section someone isn’t allowed to open doesn’t appear in their answers.
- RAG and GDPR: does our data leave the company?
- We decide that with you before anything is built. A model can run in-house at your company. That’s how the AI ticket routing works, where new tickets never leave the company. If we process your data, you get a data processing agreement under Art. 28 GDPR.
- How does the knowledge in the RAG system stay current?
- When a source changes, it gets read in again, and nobody has to maintain a list. The next answer comes from the new version. Our own store is up to date shortly after every change.
- How long does it take to have a RAG system built?
- That depends on the number and type of sources and on the access rights. The calculator on the contact page gives you a first range in weeks after four questions. The sequence is fixed: intro call, two days with you, then a specification and a quote. After that we first connect the documents your team asks about most often, and you test with real questions. We build in one-week sprints, each ending with a demo.
- What does a RAG system or AI knowledge assistant cost?
- We bill by effort, not by the number of questions. How many hours it takes depends on the number and type of sources and on the access rights. The calculator on the contact page gives you a first cost estimate in four questions, without contact details. The intro call and cost estimate cost €0. On top come running costs for operations.