RAG AI Solutions

We turn the documents your business already holds into a knowledge base your team can question in ordinary language. Staff get accurate answers in seconds, drawn from your own manuals and policies with a link to the source.

Pricing from
£2,000
Roughly 3 days at £670 covering document ingestion, indexing and accuracy testing. Larger document sets quoted after the audit.
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Overview

RAG stands for retrieval augmented generation, which describes a straightforward idea. The system searches your documents first and builds its answer from what it finds there, which means the information comes from your business rather than from general knowledge.

It suits organisations with substantial written knowledge and a growing need to reach it quickly. Support teams working from a long product manual. New starters coming up to speed. Technical teams whose specifications live across a wiki, a shared drive and various inboxes. We build these for businesses across the UK, and where the material is confidential we deploy the whole system within your own infrastructure.

The quality of the answers reflects the quality of the source material, so we begin with an audit of what you hold and how current it is. That review is valuable in its own right, because it shows you which areas of your documentation your people rely on most and where a little investment would help them most.

Where the documents and the model both need to remain inside your own network, this works alongside our private AI and data sovereignty service.

What’s included
01

Answers From Your Own Documents

Staff ask a question in ordinary language and receive an answer drawn from your own manuals, policies and files, so the knowledge in your business becomes genuinely accessible.

02

Source Citations on Every Answer

Every answer identifies the document it came from and links to it, so your team can verify the detail and read the full context whenever they need to.

03

Works With What You Already Have

PDFs, Word documents, spreadsheets, wikis, help centres, intranet pages and scanned files. Most of the material your business already holds can be brought in.

04

Stays Current Automatically

Update a source document and the answers update alongside it, so your knowledge base stays accurate as your business changes.

05

Retrieval With Follow-Through

The system can act on what it retrieves, so it will find the relevant policy and raise the ticket, or check the procedure and update the record.

How we deliver

Our RAG AI Solutions Process

01

Step 1: Knowledge Audit

We review what documentation exists, how current it is and what your people most often need to find, which shapes everything that follows.

02

Step 2: Ingest and Index

Your documents are processed and indexed so the system can search across all of them, including material held in different formats and locations.

03

Step 3: Test Against Real Questions

We test the system against a list of real questions from your team and tune it until the answers are consistently accurate and properly sourced.

04

Step 4: Deploy to Your Team

The knowledge base goes live for your users, integrated wherever they will actually use it, whether that is your intranet, your help desk or your website.

05

Step 5: Review and Improve

We review what people ask and how well it answers, which guides both the tuning and any additions worth making to your documentation.

Client work

What this looked like for JS Global

We built a RAG system for JS Global that brings their internal data into a single searchable store. Their team queries it in plain language for day to day questions, and it also supports the management side, where the useful thing is seeing what the data says across the whole set rather than tracking down one document. Getting the material into one queryable place is usually the part that takes the effort, and it is what makes everything after it straightforward.

JS Global
Pricing from
£2,000
Roughly 3 days at £670 covering document ingestion, indexing and accuracy testing. Larger document sets quoted after the audit.
Still have questions? Use our live chat or call 01284 245 170, Mon–Fri 9am–5pm.
Questions

RAG AI Solutions FAQs

What does a RAG knowledge base cost?

A knowledge base starts at £2,000, which represents around three days of work at £670 per day covering ingestion, indexing and accuracy testing against your real questions. Larger document collections are quoted after the audit, so you have an accurate figure before committing.

How does this differ from a standard chatbot?

A standard chatbot answers from its general training. A RAG system searches your own documents first and cites the source of every answer, which gives your team both the information and the means to verify it.

How do you make sure the answers are reliable?

We audit your documentation first and show you what it covers well and where it would benefit from attention. Many clients find that review useful on its own, and it means the system launches with material that genuinely serves your people.

Which file formats can it read?

PDFs, Word documents, spreadsheets, web pages, wikis, help articles and most text-based formats. Scanned documents are handled with an OCR pass, which we can arrange as part of the build.

Where are our documents stored?

Wherever suits your requirements. Cloud hosting is quicker to establish and more economical. Where your documents are confidential or regulated, we deploy the whole system within your own infrastructure so everything remains inside your network.

Still have questions? Use our live chat or call our team on 01284 245 170, Mon–Fri 9am–5pm.
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AI Fluency: Framework & Foundations
Covers a structured approach to planning tasks, working with AI and reviewing the results.
AI Capabilities and Limitations
Covers where AI can be useful, where its limitations apply and how its output should be checked.
Claude 101
Covers the main features of Claude and how they can be used effectively in day-to-day work.
Claude Platform 101
Provides an overview of the Claude platform and the tools available for different types of work.
Building with the Claude API
Supports our work building custom AI automations, integrations and workflows using the Claude API.
Claude Code 101
Covers the use of Claude Code for development, technical tasks and maintaining digital systems.
Claude Code in Action
Develops the practical use of Claude Code across real development workflows and projects.
Introduction to Model Context Protocol
Covers how Claude can connect with business systems and data through Model Context Protocol.
Model Context Protocol: Advanced Topics
Covers more advanced MCP integrations, including access controls and reliable system design.
Introduction to Claude Cowork
Covers the use of Claude Cowork for shared workflows, planning and collaborative tasks.
Claude with Amazon Bedrock
Covers how Claude can be deployed and managed through Amazon Bedrock within AWS.
Claude with Google Cloud's Vertex AI
Covers how Claude can be deployed and managed through Vertex AI within Google Cloud.
AI Fluency for Builders
Focuses on using AI to support the design and development of practical tools and products.
AI Fluency for Small Businesses
Looks at practical ways small businesses can introduce AI into their everyday operations.
AI Fluency for Nonprofits
Covers the practical use of AI within charities, nonprofits and resource-conscious teams.
AI Fluency for Educators
Covers how AI can be introduced and explained clearly within learning and training environments.
AI Fluency for pK–12 Educators
Covers appropriate and responsible AI use within schools and education settings.
AI Fluency for Students
Provides a foundation in using AI effectively, responsibly and with an understanding of its limitations.
Teaching AI Fluency
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