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Enterprise RAG systems.

Connect your private knowledge base directly to the cognitive power of AI. Retrieval-Augmented Generation grounds responses in your facts, so every answer carries a citation you can check.

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Capabilities

01

Grounded — and it says when it isn't

The model answers from the documents you supply, and every claim carries a citation you can open. When retrieval returns nothing relevant, the system says so instead of guessing.
02

Vector Databases

We architect sophisticated Pinecone, Milvus, or Postgres (pgvector) infrastructures so semantic search stays fast as the corpus grows into the millions of documents.
03

Private AI Knowledge Base

Your data remains yours. We use provider endpoints and contractual terms under which your documents are not used for training, or run the whole pipeline on-premise. Provider terms are theirs to change, so confirm them against the provider's current terms.
04

Multi-Modal Ingestion

Automatically ingest PDFs, Confluence wikis, Jira tickets, and Google Drive files into a unified, queryable enterprise brain.
INSIDE THE RETRIEVAL ARCHITECTURE

How RAG Grounds AI in Your Private Data and Makes Every Answer Traceable

Large language models are powerful reasoning engines, but they carry an inherent flaw: they generate fluent, confident responses even when they have no factual basis for doing so. In enterprise contexts — legal analysis, financial reporting, medical documentation — a single fabricated fact can cascade into regulatory exposure, financial loss or eroded trust. We build the retrieval layer; we do not provide legal, financial or medical advice, and a qualified professional still owns the judgement. Retrieval-Augmented Generation is the engineered solution to this systemic vulnerability.

The RAG architecture operates on a deceptively elegant principle. Instead of relying solely on a model's parametric memory (its training data), every query first triggers a retrieval pipeline that searches your private knowledge base for relevant context. This retrieved context is injected directly into the model's prompt, constraining its response to information grounded in your actual documents. The system is designed to cite rather than guess, and an unsupported claim is surfaced as one. If no relevant document exists, the system explicitly communicates that limitation rather than fabricating an answer.

The foundation of this retrieval pipeline is the vector database — purpose-built infrastructure like Pinecone, Milvus, or PostgreSQL with pgvector that stores your documents as high-dimensional mathematical embeddings. When a user asks a question, the query is transformed into the same embedding space, and semantic search identifies the most contextually relevant document chunks in milliseconds, even across millions of records. This is fundamentally different from keyword search: it understands meaning, synonyms, and conceptual relationships.

Document ingestion and chunking strategy are where architectural decisions determine system quality. Naive approaches — splitting documents at arbitrary character counts — destroy contextual coherence and produce fragmented retrievals. Our enterprise knowledge base AI systems employ intelligent chunking that respects document structure: paragraph boundaries, section headers, table integrity, and metadata preservation. We implement hierarchical retrieval strategies where broad document-level context supplements granular chunk-level precision, ensuring the model receives both the specific answer and the surrounding business context.

The result is a private data AI system where your workforce can query decades of institutional knowledge through natural language — contracts, SOPs, technical documentation, customer histories — and receive citation-backed responses in seconds, each one checkable against the passage it came from. Unlike fine-tuning, which permanently bakes data into model weights (raising data governance concerns), RAG keeps your data sovereign: retrievable, updatable, and deletable in real-time without retraining.

Questions

Questions about RAG Systems.

What is Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)?

RAG is an AI architecture that enhances language model responses by first retrieving relevant information from your private data sources — documents, databases, wikis — and injecting that context directly into the model's prompt. This grounds every response in your actual enterprise knowledge rather than relying on the model's general training data.

How does RAG reduce hallucination?

By constraining the AI to respond only based on retrieved documents from your verified knowledge base, RAG makes the model's tendency to generate plausible-sounding but factually incorrect information visible: an unsupported claim has no citation behind it. Every response is traceable to a source document, and the system is engineered to explicitly flag when insufficient context exists rather than fabricating an answer.

What types of documents can be ingested?

Our multi-modal document ingestion pipeline processes PDFs, Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, Confluence wikis, Jira tickets, Notion pages, Google Drive files, Slack message histories, email archives, and structured database records. Each source type has optimised parsing and chunking strategies to preserve context and metadata integrity.

How does RAG compare to fine-tuning?

Fine-tuning permanently embeds knowledge into model weights, making updates expensive and raising data governance concerns. RAG keeps your data external and sovereign — you can add, update, or delete documents instantly without retraining. RAG is ideal for dynamic enterprise data, while fine-tuning suits static behavioural adjustments. Most enterprise deployments benefit from RAG as the primary strategy.

How long does it take to deploy an enterprise RAG system?

A scoped pilot connecting one or two document sources typically ships in 2–4 weeks. Full production deployments — including multi-modal ingestion pipelines, hierarchical retrieval, access control and monitoring — usually land within one to three months depending on the number and complexity of data sources.

Which vector database is best for enterprise RAG?

It depends on your scale and infrastructure constraints. Pinecone offers managed simplicity, Milvus excels at self-hosted high-throughput workloads, and PostgreSQL with pgvector is ideal when you want retrieval living inside your existing database stack. We benchmark against your actual query patterns before committing to one.

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What we built, what stage it is at, and a link to the live thing wherever there is one.

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Our own · coming soon

yourOS

yourOS is an operating system with an AI at its heart. You talk to it like a person, out loud or typed. It makes your calls, plans your days and works on your projects with a crew of agents, on your own private server. Our own product, built from the first commit; the waitlist is open.

What we built
  • Operating system
  • Roxy
  • Agent crew
  • Voice calls
  • App store
  • Website
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The Sonora homepage on a mobile viewport, showing the same hero reflowed to a single column.
sonora.com — homepage, 1440×900
Live · iOS · Android

Sonora

Website, backend and app assets for Sonora, a free AI sound-therapy app on iOS and Android published by Cognitive AI.

What we built
  • Website
  • Backend
  • App assets
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The updated Podswap homepage on a phone, with its floating navigation, Instagram and TikTok engagement headline and tilted tool cards.
podswap.app — homepage, 1440×900
Five platforms

Podswap

Brand, website, prototype, apps on five platforms, the AI backend and the algorithm-intelligence pipeline for Podswap, a social growth engine that runs without a human in the loop.

What we built
  • Brand
  • Website
  • Prototype
  • Apps on five platforms
  • AI backend
  • Algorithm pipeline
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The unOpen.AI homepage on a mobile viewport.
unopen.ai — homepage, 1440×900
Prototype · closed beta

unOpen.AI

In closed beta: Roxy, a private AI assistant with permanent memory running on infrastructure the user owns. Brand, site, product, backend and conversational design.

What we built
  • Brand
  • Site
  • Product
  • Backend
  • Conversational design
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coherence.com on a mobile viewport, reflowed to a single column.
coherence.com — homepage, 1440×900
Live

Coherence

Live at coherence.com: brand identity generated with AI agents we directed, the motion system and website for the group behind Sonora, AboutAI, WakeUp and MudShadows. Agent work remains in build.

What we built
  • Brand identity
  • Motion system
  • Live website
  • Agent work — in build
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The new Domain Booth homepage on a phone, reflowed to a single column.
Our build of the Domain Booth homepage — 1440×900
Live

Domain Booth

Live at domainbooth.com for DomainBooth, a premium domain brokerage: a new animated mark, every page redesigned and rebuilt with designed mobile layouts, and a custom CMS for its sales record, featured names, press and enquiries.

What we built
  • Animated mark
  • Every page redesigned
  • Designed mobile layouts
  • Custom CMS
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Who we have built for

Twenty-one years. Names you know.

Apps, platforms and campaigns for these teams, long before the AI work. Every one is written up on the work page — what we did, and where our part ended.

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  • Charities Aid Foundation logo
  • GAME logo
  • NatWest logo
  • Next logo
  • NSPCC logo
  • Tesco logo
  • Worldpay logo
  • Samsung logo
  • Sony logo
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  • UAP Limited logo
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  • Amazon Prime Video logo
  • Mercedes-Benz dealerships logo
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