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A question, grounded

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The conversation surface looks, at a glance, like any chat window. What is different is the order of operations behind it. A question typed here does not go straight to a model. It goes through the knowledge base and the graph first, and only reaches a model carrying whatever those two tools found — or carrying nothing extra at all, if the question genuinely did not call for it.

relevant material found

nothing relevant found

Your question

Checked against your own material first

Model answers,

carrying that material as grounding

Model answers plainly —

and says it found nothing of yours

Fig. 3.1 — Your own material is checked before the model is asked to reason. The model is told, either way, what it is working from.

The practical effect is that an answer can be traced back to a source rather than accepted on the model’s general confidence alone. Ask about a decision made in a document from eighteen months ago, and the answer arrives with that document named, not reconstructed from a model’s best guess at what such a decision usually looks like.