Architecture & governance
Review how iKB connects data sources, retrieves evidence, applies policies and delivers answers. Each stage contributes to a shared audit trail.
01Data & ingestion
Connectors, processing, and indexingControl details
Capture metadata, content hashes, versions, and provenance. Keep document storage and indexes inside the selected deployment boundary.
02Evidence & retrieval
Hybrid search, anchors, and GraphRAGControl details
Combine exact-phrase retrieval, reranking, cross-lingual support, and graph evidence in a ranked pool. Verify grounding against the retrieved material.
03Policy & models
Permissions, guardrails, and routingControl details
Apply topic policies, prompt versions, moderation, DLP, redaction, and retention. Route to approved hosted providers or local model endpoints.
04Answers & delivery
Workspaces, channels, and APIControl details
Deliver controlled answers through web chat, Slack, Teams, WhatsApp, Telegram, and API, with voice and document generation where enabled.
Understand what happened.
Keep the record for review.
The audit trail describes the system's actions and supporting evidence without exposing a model's hidden reasoning.
What supported the answer?
Source documents, citations, provenance, retrieved evidence, and the knowledge domain queried.
Which policies applied?
Prompt and configuration versions, triggered rules, and whether an external action was allowed, modified, or blocked.
How did the system perform?
Stage timing, model selection, token usage, cost, and outcomes in append-only, hash-chained events.
Place the system
where your data belongs.
Local storage, indexing, retrieval, relational and semantic data layers, caching, and background processing support operation within your own infrastructure.
Compare deployment pathsHosted
A starting point for pilots and standard enterprise knowledge use cases.
Private cloud
Dedicated infrastructure and environment isolation for sensitive programmes.
On-premise
Run close to internal systems with local inference, an operator CLI, and 18-signal health probes.
Air-gapped
Keep the core knowledge experience local with locally hosted models. Live web research and externally hosted services are unavailable inside a closed boundary.
Bring IT, security, and risk to the same table.
Review the data flows, model endpoints, evidence records, and operating boundary before committing to deployment.