# From Company Knowledge to a Useful AI Assistant

> A useful internal assistant needs retrieval, permissions, source visibility, and a clear role in the work.

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A useful internal assistant needs more than documents and a prompt. It needs retrieval, permissions, source visibility, and a clear role in the work.

## Define the assistant's job

Give the assistant a narrow responsibility, approved sources, clear boundaries, and an explicit path to human review.


## Build a trustworthy knowledge layer

Structure ingestion, metadata, access control, and retrieval so each answer uses relevant and current company information.


## Put the assistant where the work happens

Bring the assistant into the portal, workspace, or operational application that already owns the workflow state.


## Improve it with real use

Review accepted, corrected, and escalated answers to improve sources, retrieval, and the surrounding process.


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