# Vector databases, AI site search and RAG assistants that answer from your own content

> Vector search and RAG assistants let customers and staff ask questions in plain language and get answers drawn from your own content. We turn your pages, documents and FAQs into embeddings, store them in a vector database, and build site search or an assistant that retrieves the right passages, cites its sources and hands off to a person when unsure.

An assistant that makes things up is worse than no assistant. Ours answer from your content and show where each answer came from.

## Why it matters now
Retrieval-augmented generation is how AI assistants ground answers in real sources. Building it on your own knowledge shortens support calls and shows which questions your site fails to answer.

## What is included
- Content inventory and cleanup
- Chunking and embeddings
- Vector database setup, such as pgvector or a managed service
- AI site search and chat assistants
- Citations, guardrails and handoff to a person
- Evaluation sets and answer quality reports

## How we do it
1. **Collect.** Gather and clean the content to answer from.
2. **Index.** Create embeddings and load the vector database.
3. **Build.** Ship search or an assistant with citations.
4. **Evaluate.** Test against real questions and improve.

## Deliverables
- Vector index
- Search or assistant interface
- Evaluation report
- Maintenance plan

## Who it is for
- Businesses with large help centers or catalogs
- B2B firms with technical documents
- Teams answering the same questions every day

## Frequently asked questions
### What is RAG?

Retrieval-augmented generation. The assistant first retrieves relevant passages from your content, then writes an answer from them, which keeps answers grounded and citable.

### Will our data train public AI models?

We choose providers and settings that do not train on your data, and keep private documents out of public-facing tools.

## Related
- [Knowledge Graph Development](https://sproutgrowthengine.com/services/ai-services/knowledge-graph-development/)
- [Agent-Ready Websites](https://sproutgrowthengine.com/services/ai-search/agent-ready-websites/)
- [UX & UI Design](https://sproutgrowthengine.com/services/web-design/ux-ui-design/)

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