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Your Database Knows Everything. Your Team Can't Find Anything.

If you're a founder watching SQL queries bottleneck your ops team, you've reached the moment when data becomes a liability instead of an asset.

You have a PostgreSQL database with 5 years of business data. Or a MongoDB collection with millions of documents. Or 10,000 PDFs in a file share. Right now, getting answers requires writing SQL queries or asking someone who can. We ingest your data into pgvector embeddings and connect Claude so anyone can search your entire dataset in natural language and get answers with citations to source documents.

3,080
Monthly Searches
RAG and database AI keywords
1M+
Documents Indexed
Scales without limits
<2sec
Search Speed
Regardless of library size
95+
Lighthouse Score
Performance target
What Custom Database AI Integration Actually Does -- And What Stays Broken Without It

Your question lands as plain English -- "what's our remote expense policy?" -- and your database fires back an answer pulled from a document that says "home office reimbursement." Not one matching word. Just matching meaning. That's Retrieval-Augmented Generation. We convert your databases, documents, and scattered files into pgvector embeddings so Claude searches by semantic intent, not 1998-era keyword matching. Your team asks natural questions. The AI cites specific passages from your actual data -- no guessing, no hallucination. When your 22-year veteran retires Friday, their institutional knowledge doesn't walk out the door with them, because it's indexed, searchable, and cited. We call this your Second Brain. Every policy, every process, every hard-won lesson from the past decade becomes accessible to anyone who can type a question. The knowledge stops living in heads and email drafts. It lives in your system, where turnover can't kill it.

What is holding your current website back?

5 years of business data, searchable only by people who write SQL.

Right now, getting answers out of your database means writing SQL -- or tracking down the one person on your team who can
Risk: So most questions just don't get asked. The friction is too high, the queue is too long, and by the time you get an answer, the moment's passed. That's a real cost, even if it's invisible on a spreadsheet.
You've got 10,000 documents sitting in a file share somewhere -- maybe SharePoint, maybe a network drive, maybe both
Risk: Nobody can search them effectively. The knowledge is there. It exists. But it's effectively invisible to anyone who doesn't already know exactly where to look, which defeats the whole point.
Keyword search is honestly pretty limited
Risk: If you search "staff reduction" and the document says "workforce restructuring," you get nothing. The answer's in your data. But because someone used different words, you can't find it. And that happens dozens of times a day across your organization.
New employees can take three to six months just to learn *where* information lives -- never mind actually learning the information itself
Risk: And the real kicker? The deep institutional knowledge lives in the heads of your most senior people. It's not written down anywhere. When they're in a meeting or out sick, that knowledge is just... unavailable.
So what does your team do instead? They copy data into ChatGPT
Risk: No context about your business, your clients, your specific situation. The answers come back generic -- technically reasonable, completely useless for your actual problem. Plus there are real data security questions you probably don't want to think too hard about.
Someone retires after 22 years
Risk: They walk out the door on a Friday, and decades of expertise -- the *why* behind decisions, the workarounds, the lessons learned the hard way -- goes with them. There's no recovery from that. Or there wasn't, until now.

How We Build This Right

Every safeguard, built in from Day 1.

Document RAG

We ingest your PDFs, Word docs, emails, and web pages directly into pgvector. Semantic search then finds relevant passages based on what they *mean*, not just whether the words match. And every answer comes back with citations -- specific documents, page numbers, the actual passage. You know exactly where the information came from.

Database Natural Language

Ask your database a question in plain English. The AI figures out what you're asking, translates it into the right query, pulls the data, and hands you a real answer. No SQL. No ticketing a data analyst. No waiting until Thursday.

Multi-Source Ingestion

PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Confluence, Notion, Google Docs, file shares, external APIs -- it all gets indexed into one searchable knowledge base. Your team stops asking "which system has that?" because the answer is just: this one.

Citation and Verification

Every single answer includes citations -- source document, page, the specific passage it drew from. Users can verify before they act on anything. That's not a nice-to-have, that's fundamental. Answers grounded in your actual data don't hallucinate, because the AI isn't filling gaps from its training -- it's reading your documents.

Access Controls

HR data stays visible to HR. Financial data stays with finance. Document-level and collection-level access controls mirror whatever permission structure you already have. The AI respects your org's boundaries -- it doesn't flatten them.

Continuous Ingestion

New documents get indexed automatically as they're added. Your knowledge base stays current without anyone manually re-indexing anything. Add a policy update on Monday, and it's searchable by Monday afternoon.

What We Build

Purpose-built features for your industry.

Writing SQL just to answer a business question creates friction so high most questions never get asked

Ask about customer churn and surface documents mentioning retention risk, subscriber loss, cancellation patterns -- meaning-based retrieval, not word matching

Ten thousand documents sitting in SharePoint are invisible to anyone who doesn't already know the exact folder path

Institutional knowledge persists through turnover because it lives in your searchable system, not in heads that walk out the door

Keyword search fails the moment someone writes 'workforce restructuring' and you search 'staff reduction' -- same meaning, zero results

Every answer cites specific source documents and passages -- the AI shows its work instead of fabricating plausible-sounding nonsense

New hires spend six months learning where information lives before they can even start learning the information itself

Fifty thousand documents search just as fast as five hundred -- pgvector scales to enterprise volume without hitting performance walls

Teams copy sensitive data into ChatGPT because there's no other way to get answers -- generic responses, real security risk

Embeddings live in your Supabase instance, queries process in memory -- you own the infrastructure and control where your data sits

Your most senior employee retires and decades of unwritten expertise vanishes the day they leave

RAG becomes the foundation for customer chatbots, workflow automation, and AI assistants -- one indexed dataset powers your entire AI stack

Built on a Modern, Secure Stack

Claude APIpgvectorSupabaseOpenAI EmbeddingsVercelPostgreSQLMongoDB

Our Development Process

From discovery to launch. Quality at every step.

01

Data Audit

Week 1

We start by cataloging your data sources, document types, and where the highest-value search use cases actually are. Then we plan the ingestion and chunking strategy before writing a single line of code. Getting this part right saves a lot of pain later.

02

Ingestion Pipeline

Week 2-3

Next we build the data processing pipeline -- cleaning the raw data, chunking it intelligently, generating embeddings, and indexing everything. Then we test search quality against queries we *know* the answers to, so we're validating against reality, not just hoping it works.

03

Search Interface

Week 4-5

From there we build the search interface or API -- natural language in, AI-generated answers with citations out. And it integrates into whatever tools your team already uses, not some separate platform they have to remember to open.

04

Access Controls

Week 6

We implement document-level permissions, user authentication, and audit logging. Who can see what, who searched for what, when -- all tracked. This isn't bolted on at the end, it's built in from the start.

05

Launch + Tune

Week 7-8

Then we go live. We monitor search accuracy, track what people are actually querying, and add new data sources based on real demand -- not guesses. First 30 days are free support while you're getting comfortable with the system.

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Frequently Asked Questions

RAG -- Retrieval-Augmented Generation -- works like this: we ingest your documents or database into vector embeddings stored in pgvector. When someone asks a question, the AI searches semantically -- by meaning, not keywords -- pulls the relevant passages, and writes an answer that cites your actual source documents. It can't hallucinate because it's not filling in blanks from training data. It's reading your stuff and summarizing what it finds.
Pretty much anything digital. PostgreSQL, MongoDB, MySQL databases. PDFs, Word docs, Excel files. Confluence, Notion, Google Docs. Emails. API data from external systems. If it's digital and you own it, we can ingest and index it.
Semantic search handles the vocabulary mismatch problem that breaks keyword search. Ask about "employee termination clauses" and it finds separation agreements and end-of-employment provisions -- different words, same meaning. And we tune retrieval for precision, because honestly, 5 highly relevant results beat 50 vague ones every time.
Simple RAG over a document library under 1,000 documents runs $3,000 to $8,000. Enterprise RAG -- multiple data sources, access controls, workflow integration -- is $15,000 to $40,000. Both scale to millions of documents as your needs grow.
Your data stays in your Supabase instance or your existing database. Embeddings are stored right alongside your data. Claude processes queries in memory without retaining your content anywhere. You control the infrastructure -- we're not holding your data hostage.
Simple document RAG typically takes 2 to 3 weeks. Multi-source enterprise RAG runs 6 to 10 weeks -- the extra time is mostly data cleaning, chunking optimization, and accuracy validation against real queries. Rushing that part is how you end up with a system that *looks* like it works but gives bad answers.
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