Getting started

Set up a bot

The first thing to set up is a bot. These are integrations into your existing communication channels. Follow one of the guides in the bot section to set up a connection to your Discord, Slack, Mattermost, Teams instance, or your company Email through IMAP/SMTP.

You are now ready to try out a conversation with your shiny new AI companion! But let's not get carried away just yet - without a connected source, your chat bot will only use the knowledge from its training data to answer you, and it won't be able to reliably cite any sources.

Set up a source

Once you have configured your source, it needs to be indexed. This is the process in which Provai extracts semantic information from all the documents in your source and saves it as a mathematical matrix of information. The process is called semantic indexing, and is one of the most important inventions of the 21st century.

Instead of acting like a classic search engine, where the words "Tea" and "Sea" would be considered close neighbours, the semantic matrix would instead group the word "Tea" closer to the word "Breakfast", although they significantly differ in spelling, pronounciation, and length.

Provai uses a combination of classic search engine techniques along with advanced matrix (vector) based search to extract the meaning of your documents, without needing to copy the actual data. All of this happens during the indexing phase.

Connecting them together

You can connect a source with a bot either through the bot or source configuration page in your dashboard.