Multi-source retrieval
Ingest PDFs, docs, HTML and databases into one searchable corpus with provenance on every chunk, so answers trace back to a real source.
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Self-hosted QA over your internal tools — like Danswer
Danswer is open-source enterprise QA over internal tools and knowledge bases. It's a recognisable benchmark for a system class I build — here's what it does, and how I'd build yours.
Reference example — not my client. Danswer is an independent product I'm not affiliated with, shown as a benchmark for this kind of build.
Live preview of www.danswer.ai — their site, shown as reference.
01What a Danswer-class system does
The shape of the build
At its core, Danswer is open-source enterprise QA over internal tools and knowledge bases — the kind of system you reach for when you have self-hosted RAG and connector-heavy builds. Here is how I'd build one for you.
Permission-aware by design
Retrieval is scoped to what each user is cleared to see — a query can't reach a document it shouldn't, no matter how it's phrased.
Hybrid search + rerank
Dense vectors catch paraphrase, keyword search catches the exact identifier, and a reranker keeps only the strongest evidence.
Grounded, cited answers
Every claim resolves to the chunk it came from, with a refusal path when the evidence isn't there.
02More RAG & enterprise search examples
Other benchmarks in this class
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Want something like Danswer?
Tell me what it needs to do and where it's getting stuck. I'll tell you honestly whether I'm the right person and what it would take — no pitch deck, no discovery call to book a discovery call.