Grapefruit

Enterprise Knowledge Assistants

Enterprise knowledge assistants (RAG) over your own documents

Grapefruit builds enterprise knowledge assistants that answer questions from your own documents, such as policies, contracts, product manuals and tickets, with sources cited for every answer. Built on retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) in your cloud, they respect existing access rights and hand over to a human when unsure.

Signs you need this

  • Contact-centre or sales staff spend minutes searching for an answer customers wait for
  • New hires take months to learn where the knowledge lives
  • Customers call about things already explained somewhere in your bills, contracts or FAQs
  • People paste internal documents into public AI tools because they have nothing better
  • The same question gets different answers depending on who picks up

What you get

  • Knowledge source audit

    Which documents and systems hold the answers, how current they are, who may see what, and what must be cleaned first.

  • Retrieval pipeline

    Ingestion, chunking, search and re-ranking tuned on your content, kept in sync as documents change.

  • Assistant experience

    An interface where your people or customers already work: portal, app, intranet, Teams or the contact-centre desktop.

  • Citations, access control and hand-off

    Every answer shows its sources, respects existing permissions, and routes to a human when confidence is low.

  • Evaluation and monitoring

    A test set of real questions scored before launch and re-run on every change, with dashboards for accuracy and unanswered questions.

Our method

How we deliver: Discover, Pilot, Scale, Operate

A go/no-go gate between every phase. You fund the next step only when the previous one has earned it.
  1. 011 to 2 weeks

    Discover

    Collect the real questions people ask, audit the sources that answer them and agree access rules and success metrics.

    • Question set
    • Source audit
    • Access model
  2. 023 to 4 weeks

    Pilot

    A working assistant over a representative document set, scored on real questions with the team that will use it.

    • Working assistant
    • Accuracy report
    • Go/no-go recommendation
  3. 032 to 4 months

    Scale

    Connect all sources, add permissions, hand-off, monitoring and the interface in your channels, then roll out by team.

    • Production assistant
    • Sync pipelines
    • Runbook
  4. 04Ongoing

    Operate

    Watch unanswered and low-rated questions, fix content gaps, re-run evaluations and upgrade models.

    • Monthly quality report
    • Content gap list

Ways to start

Most teams start with the AI Prototype Sprint

Fixed scope, clear deliverables, and no obligation to continue.
  1. Fixed scope3 to 4 weeks

    AI Prototype Sprint

    A working AI prototype on your own data in 4 weeks, so you decide with evidence, not slides.

    • Use case framing, evaluation set and success metrics agreed up front
    • Working prototype in your cloud tenant (assistant, agent, content model or document extraction)
    • Accuracy and hallucination test report
    • Security and data flow note
    Plan a prototype sprint
  2. Fixed scope2 weeks

    AI Opportunity Scan

    Find the 3 AI use cases worth funding in your business, with the numbers to defend them.

    • Stakeholder interviews (5 to 8 people) and a process map
    • AI opportunity backlog ranked by value, effort and risk
    • Data readiness check for the top use cases
    • EU AI Act risk classification per use case
    Book an AI Opportunity Scan
  3. Project2 to 6 months

    AI Solution Build

    From validated prototype to a production AI system your team trusts and runs.

    • Architecture and secure deployment in your cloud tenant
    • Evaluation suite, guardrails and human-in-the-loop design
    • Integration with your systems, monitoring and cost controls
    • EU AI Act documentation pack
    Start a project
  4. OngoingOngoing, monthly

    AI Operations Partner

    Your AI keeps working, stays compliant and keeps improving.

    • Monitoring and evaluation re-runs on every model update
    • Prompt and model upgrades, cost optimisation
    • EU AI Act and GDPR documentation upkeep
    • Quarterly use-case review
    Book a 30-min call

FAQ

Enterprise Knowledge Assistants: questions buyers ask

What is retrieval-augmented generation (RAG)?

RAG is a way of building AI assistants where the system first searches your own documents for relevant passages and then asks a language model to answer using only those passages, with citations. It keeps answers current and checkable without retraining a model every time a document changes.

How do you make sure the assistant does not invent answers?

Answers are grounded in retrieved passages and cite them, the assistant is instructed to say it does not know when sources are missing, and we score it on a set of real questions before launch and after every change. Where an error is costly, a person reviews or answers instead.

Can employees see documents they are not allowed to see?

No. The assistant applies the same access rights as your source systems, so a person only gets answers from documents they could already open. We test this explicitly during the pilot with your security team.

Can we put the assistant in front of customers?

Yes, usually after it proves itself internally. Customer-facing assistants must disclose that people are talking to AI under Article 50 of the EU AI Act, which has applied since 2 August 2026. We design that disclosure, plus a clear hand-off to a human, into the experience.

Where are our documents stored?

In your cloud tenant or an EU region we agree on. Documents and embeddings stay under your control, are not used to train public models, and can be deleted with the source. The data flow is documented for your DPO.

What drives the cost of a knowledge assistant?

The number and messiness of sources, how often they change, access-control complexity, the channels it must live in, and the languages it must handle. Model usage is usually a small part. The pilot measures these so the production estimate is concrete.

Start with the AI Prototype Sprint

A working AI prototype on your own data in 4 weeks, so you decide with evidence, not slides. 3 to 4 weeks, fixed scope, no obligation to continue.

We reply within 1 business day, usually the same day. Not ready to talk? Take the free AI assessment.