Rivac LabsDocument Question-Answering Systems
When the answer to a question lives somewhere inside thousands of internal documents, the honest cost isn't the document — it's the time spent hunting for it, or the wrong answer given because nobody found the right one. This service builds a retrieval-based question-answering system over your internal document corpus — policies, manuals, contracts, past reports — so anyone on your team can ask a plain-language question and get an answer grounded in your actual documents, with citations back to the source so it can be verified rather than trusted blindly. We build the retrieval and grounding carefully so the system says "I don't know" rather than confidently inventing an answer when the documents don't contain one. It solves the real cost of tribal knowledge walking out the door and new hires or support staff burning hours searching for answers that already exist somewhere in the archive.
How We’d Approach This
A clear, staged plan — not a black box
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Inventory the document corpus and interview frequent searchers to learn the real questions people ask and how they judge a good answer
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Pilot a retrieval-and-answer system against a subset of the corpus, measured against a hand-built set of known question-answer pairs
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Review pilot answers with subject-matter experts to catch ungrounded or incomplete responses before expanding coverage
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Build out full-corpus coverage with source citations, confidence signals, and a refresh process for keeping the index current as documents change
What You Get
Deliverables from this engagement
- Production document Q&A system with source citations on every answer
- Evaluation set of known question-answer pairs and accuracy results
- Refresh/reindexing process for keeping the corpus current
- Access layer (chat interface, Slack bot, or API) fitted to how your team already works
Six Ways We Could Architect This
Different engagement, different build — pick the shape that fits
There’s more than one way to deliver on this service. Browse a few of the ways we’d structure the work, depending on your speed, budget, and integration needs.
Ready to get started?
Tell us what you’re trying to get done and we’ll help you find the highest-leverage place to start — scoped small enough to prove itself before you commit to anything bigger.
Talk to us about Document Question-Answering SystemsMost engagements like this start as a $500–$2,500 pilot — see full pricing.