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Knowledge & RAG

A model knows the internet. An AI platform knows your refund policy, this customer’s order history, last quarter’s incident write-up, and which of them is out of date. Knowledge & RAG is the part that turns your content into retrievable, permission-aware, citable memory.

Bhogar AI Studio - Knowledge Bases page listing 17 knowledge bases including Legal Services, Telecommunications, ROI Value Realization, and AML KYC Compliance.

How it works

How documents become answers

You can start with defaults and get useful answers on day one, then tune chunking, ranking, and sync cadence where evaluations show it matters.

Knowledge & RAGProcess diagram

Connect the sources

Point a knowledge base at the systems that hold the truth and inherit their permission model.

connected sources

Capabilities

Knowledge management capabilities

Production RAG is mostly unglamorous engineering: parsing, chunking, permissions, freshness, and evaluation. All of it is platform behaviour here.

Layout-aware ingestion

PDFs, office documents, HTML, spreadsheets, transcripts, and database rows are parsed with their structure intact - headings, tables, and lists survive the trip.

documents - records - threads

Chunking that keeps meaning

Structure-aware splitting with overlap and parent-document links, so a retrieved passage still carries the section it belongs to.

configurable size - overlap - parent linking

Embeddings in a safe store

Vectors are written to pgvector alongside tenant, workspace, and permission metadata - memory lives in the same safe data plane as your records.

pgvector - HNSW index

Hybrid retrieval

Dense vector search combined with keyword matching, so exact identifiers, product codes, and policy names are found alongside semantic matches.

vector + keyword - fusion ranking

Reranking for precision

A rerank pass reorders candidates before they reach the model, which raises answer quality more cheaply than enlarging the context window.

recall then precision

Permission-aware answers

Retrieval is filtered by the requesting user’s access. Two people can ask the same question and correctly receive different answers.

source ACL → role mapping

Freshness and incremental sync

Connectors re-index changed content rather than rebuilding everything, and answers can expose when their sources were last synced.

incremental indexing - last-synced state

Citations by default

Answers are composed from retrieved passages and carry links back to the source, so a reader can verify a claim in one click.

source attribution on every claim

Multiple knowledge bases

Scope memory by department, product, or customer, and grant agents only the bases their job requires instead of one undifferentiated index.

per-workspace knowledge bases

Ontology

Entity classes, properties, and relationships that guide LLM graph extraction.

Taxonomy

Hierarchical terms and document tags for routing and query filters.

Knowledge graph

Opt-in entity/relationship extract, hop query, and visualization in Postgres.

Engines

Vector, BM25, hybrid, and rerank bindings per knowledge base.

Design decisions

Design decisions

These are the choices that separate a demo from something a compliance team will sign off on.

Why retrieval beats a bigger context window
Pasting more text raises cost and latency and buries the relevant passage. Retrieval selects the few passages that matter, which is cheaper per answer, faster, and far easier to cite and audit.
Why hybrid search, not vectors alone
Pure vector search struggles with exact tokens - invoice numbers, SKUs, error codes, policy titles. Keyword matching covers that, and fusion ranking gives you both without asking users to phrase questions differently.
Where freshness actually breaks
Stale indexes cause quietly wrong answers, which erode trust faster than an outage. Incremental sync plus visible last-synced state means Bhogar can say how current its evidence is.
Permissions are a retrieval concern
Filtering after generation is too late - the model has already seen the content. Bhogar applies the permission filter during retrieval, so restricted passages never enter the prompt.
Structured data belongs in memory too
Documents alone give partial answers. Knowledge bases can draw on database and warehouse content, so Bhogar reasons over policy text and the live record it applies to.
Evaluate retrieval separately from generation
Most quality complaints are recall failures, not model failures. Grounding and citation-accuracy suites isolate retrieval quality, so tuning targets the real cause.

Design decisions

Design decisions

These are the choices that separate a demo from something a compliance team will sign off on.

Time spent hunting across wikis, drives, tickets, and threads collapses to one question.

Hours saved on lookup

baseline search time × answered queries

Grounded, cited answers instead of confident invention.

Answer accuracy

grounding and citation-accuracy evaluation scores

Questions resolved from memory without opening a ticket or interrupting an expert.

tasks deflected

self-served answer events vs escalations

New joiners reach useful output without a senior colleague as a search interface.

Onboarding ramp

query volume and resolution rate by tenure cohort

Retrieval keeps prompts small, so precision lowers spend as well as raising quality.

Cost per answer

tokens and model cost per answered query

Which sources are indexed, how fresh they are, and where the missing datas remain.

Knowledge coverage

indexed sources and last-sync status per knowledge base

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Does our content get used to train models?
No. Retrieval-augmented generation passes retrieved passages to a model at inference time; it does not train on your data. Enterprise plans additionally cover provider-level data handling terms and self-hosted or BYO model options where required.
How does Bhogar handle conflicting documents?
Retrieval surfaces the competing passages with their sources and last-synced state instead of silently picking one. The answer can present the conflict, and because every claim is cited, a reader can see that two policies disagree - which is usually the finding you needed.
What file types and sources are supported?
Documents (PDF, Word, PowerPoint, spreadsheets, Markdown, HTML, plain text), structured sources (Postgres and other SQL databases, warehouses), and SaaS content through connectors - tickets, CRM records, wiki spaces, and message archives. See the data and integrations page for the full coverage story.
How large can a knowledge base get?
The vector store is Postgres with pgvector and HNSW indexing, which scales to enterprise corpora. In practice the limiting factor is not volume but hygiene: teams get better results from several well-scoped bases than one index containing everything.
Do we need to re-index when a document changes?
Connectors detect changes and re-index incrementally, so a single edited document does not trigger a full rebuild. You control sync cadence per source, and answers can surface how recently the underlying source was synced.

See Bhogar on your own data

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