How it works

Retrieval first. The model comes second.

The quality of an answer is decided before the model writes a word — by which passages reach it. Most of the engineering here sits in that step.

The pipeline

Four stages, every question.

01

Retrieve

Your question is searched against the collection twice over: once by meaning, once by wording. Both matter — meaning finds the passage that says the same thing differently, wording finds the one that names the term you used.

02

Ground

The passages that survive are handed to the model as the only material it may answer from. It is instructed not to fill gaps from its own memory, and to say so when the sources fall short.

03

Check

The answer is compared back against those passages. Claims that are not carried by a source are flagged as general framing rather than presented as evidence.

04

Build

Once the conversation has enough to work with, it offers to write the material — and produces it in full, exported to PDF or Word.

The constraint

It may only answer from what you gave it.

That is the whole design. Everything else — the citations, the refusals, the willingness to disagree with you — follows from holding that line rather than relaxing it when an answer would be more convenient.

  • No open web search.
  • No answering from model memory.
  • Every claim tied to a passage.
  • Gaps stated, not filled.

For the people who run it

Configurable where it counts.

A school that is accountable for the advice needs to be able to change it. These are the levers, and they are all in the admin interface rather than in a support ticket.

Source weighting

Decide which documents lead when two of them disagree, and which are background.

Terminology

Fix the words it must use for your context, so answers match how your school talks.

Instructions

The prompts that shape tone, structure and refusal behaviour are editable, versioned, and every change is recorded.

Material types

Add your own document formats alongside the built-in ones, with your own structure.

Style rules

House rules for how answers are written, applied on top of the instructions rather than buried inside them.

Language

Set the language answers must come back in, independently of the language the sources were written in.

Try it

The fastest way to judge it is to ask it something hard.