Ask a question, get the answer from your own documents. Pricing, inventory, policies and past quotes usually sit in a folder somebody has to know their way around.
In build for an events company, reading their own SharePoint.
Most knowledge base software asks you to move in first. Somebody rewrites a year of documents into articles, and the folder everyone actually uses carries on beside it.
An ai knowledge base reads what you have where it sits. No migration, no parallel copy, no article nobody updated.
For the events company the extraction runs in process, with no third party service involved. That was proven rather than claimed: the reader ran with every outbound connection blocked and still read all 24 pages, 4,542 text boxes and 89 prices.
Brochures laid out in design tools, scanned pages, tables split across pages. A faq knowledge base software product expects tidy articles, and your pricing does not live in one.
Each document is tracked by its contents, so a re-uploaded revision is recognized as the same file.
SharePoint, Google Drive, Dropbox, and whichever system holds customer records. It can also sit behind an ai chatbot with knowledge base access for staff to query directly.
No. They stay where they are and are read in place.
For the events build, nothing does, and we proved it rather than asserting it.
If your documents are already written and scattered, yes. If you want a published help center for customers, a traditional product suits better.
PDFs, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, CSV files and scans.