A private knowledge assistant for training libraries

Hundreds of hours of recorded, customer-specific technical training, and no good way to search any of it. Uploading it to a cloud platform was not on the table, so we built our own.

Application story

We provide a lot of project-specific technical training. Most of it is recorded. And at some point we had a problem. Hundreds of hours of recorded training sessions, valuable, customer-specific, deeply technical content, and no good way to search through any of it.

Uploading to a cloud platform was not on the table. These recordings contain proprietary customer information. So we decided to build our own solution to manage meeting recordings better.

We built a private knowledge assistant

  • An application that automatically ingests training or meeting recordings and transcribes them
  • Transcriptions are fed into a private, on-premise AI engine running entirely on hardware we own and control
  • Each customer's knowledge base stays completely isolated
  • Engineers get instant answers in plain English over a secure connection with access control
  • No cloud. No data sharing. No cross-customer contamination

The user experience is simple by design. An engineer opens a clean browser interface and can:

  • Browse all available recordings by session
  • Read or search the full transcript of any session
  • Or just ask a plain English question, "What's the procedure for creating a new object template?", and get a direct, sourced answer in seconds
The knowledge assistant answering a question, with the source recordings and their time ranges listed below the answer
Each source names the recording and the time range it came from, and plays from that point.

From dropping an MP4 file into a folder to having a fully queryable private AI, the entire pipeline runs on infrastructure we built and hardware we control, 100% of the time.

If your team is sitting on a library of proprietary training content and struggling with the same searchability problem, or if you would like to explore what a private AI knowledge base could look like for your operation, we would love to talk.

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