Build an AI knowledge base that answers from your own files, catch it when it makes things up, and hand your whole team a single source to ask.
By the end you have an AI that reads your documents and answers questions about them, instead of a chatbot guessing at what your business actually does.
Most people point an AI assistant at their files, get a confident wrong answer, and quietly give up. The problem is rarely the model. It is messy structure, vague questions, and no plan for the day the AI states something false with total confidence. This course works the other way: you start with one real job, watch the system answer from your own files, then fix the things that break in practice.
You decide between cloud and local setups based on what your data needs, learn to phrase questions so the answers are actually useful, and put a check in place for when it lies with a straight face. Then you open it up so your whole team can ask, and set a simple routine to keep it current as your files change.
You walk away with a working AI knowledge base built on your own documents, plus a repeatable process for structuring, testing, and maintaining it as the source of truth your team relies on.
Founders: want an assistant that answers from real company files, not generic web knowledge.
Operators: are tired of fielding the same questions and want one place the team can ask instead.
Consultants: want to turn scattered client documents into a knowledge base they can query in seconds.
8 lessons to get you from zero to confident. Start at your own pace.