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Enterprise RAG

Retrieval-augmented generation grounded in your ontology, knowledge bases, and lakehouse vector search — so agents answer from your verified data with citations and provenance, low hallucination, entirely inside your perimeter.

Grounded in Your Ontology

Retrieval runs over your ontology, knowledge bases, and lakehouse vector search — so answers come from verified business meaning, not generic model memory.

Citations & Provenance

Every answer traces back to the source documents and data it was drawn from, keeping AI auditable and low-hallucination.

Inside Your Perimeter

Embeddings, retrieval, and generation run sovereignly within your perimeter — no data sent to external services.

Definition

Enterprise RAG (retrieval-augmented generation) is the technique of grounding AI answers in an organisation's own data — retrieving relevant facts from its knowledge bases, ontology, and lakehouse before the model responds. On the AI OS, enterprise RAG is sovereign: retrieval runs over your ontology and vector search inside your own perimeter, every answer carries citations and provenance, and outputs are governed, so agents answer from verified data with low hallucination rather than from generic model memory.

Large language models are fluent but ungrounded: ask them about your business and they guess. Enterprise RAG fixes that by retrieving the right facts from your own data first, then letting the model answer from them. Scrydon makes RAG sovereign and trustworthy: retrieval is grounded in the ontology and the Cognitive Enterprise, vector search runs in the lakehouse inside your perimeter, and every answer is traceable to its sources. The result is AI that answers from your verified data — with citations, provenance, and far less hallucination — without anything leaving your control.

Where it fits

Enterprise RAG in the Scrydon platform

One integrated, sovereign architecture. Here is where Enterprise RAG sits — highlighted against the full stack it works with.

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A closer look

Enterprise RAG in depth

Human + AI Orchestration

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The Human + AI Orchestrator is the operational runtime at the heart of the AI OS — scheduling, routing, and governing every task across your enterprise, whether executed by an AI agent, an existing system, or a human.

Most organisations have broken processes: encoded in siloed systems or locked in people's heads. The AI OS makes them visible and executable. It captures intent, synthesises context, acts — then feeds every result back into the ontology so the next run is smarter. All of it inside your perimeter.

Cognitive Enterprise — Ontology Layer

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Most organisations have data they can't use — not because it doesn't exist, but because nothing connects it. The Cognitive Enterprise layer is the defining intelligence of the AI OS: a living, queryable semantic model of your organisation's entities, processes, and rules. It is the single source of truth that allows every agent, analyst, and workflow to reason about your business with a consistent understanding.

Without it, AI agents reason on noise. With it, they reason on the business.

  • Entity graph: Model customers, accounts, orders, products, and any domain concept — then connect them with typed, traversable relationships.
  • Process integration: Link real-world workflows to ontology entities so agents understand how data flows through your business.
  • Continuous enrichment: Agents automatically enrich ontology nodes with fresh data from the lakehouse, keeping the model current without manual effort.
RETRIEVE, THEN GENERATE

Answers grounded in your verified data

Enterprise RAG retrieves before it generates. When an agent or user asks a question, the platform finds the most relevant facts from your knowledge bases, ontology, and lakehouse, then the model answers from those facts — with the sources attached. Because retrieval is grounded in the ontology rather than loose documents, agents pull the right entities and definitions every time.

  • Vector search in the lakehouseEmbeddings are stored and queried alongside your data in the lakehouse — no separate, ungoverned vector database.

  • Ontology-grounded retrievalRetrieval traverses the ontology and Cognitive Enterprise, so agents fetch the right entities, relationships, and definitions.

  • Citations and provenanceEvery answer carries links back to the source documents and data, so reasoning stays auditable.

  • Governed and sovereignDLP screens outputs, access is scoped per identity, and the whole pipeline runs inside your perimeter.

BEYOND CLASSICAL RAG

Why ontology-grounded RAG beats classical RAG

Classical RAG retrieves text chunks by vector similarity, so it tends to return partial or loosely related passages, misses how facts connect, cannot follow relationships across the data, and is prone to hallucination with weak provenance. Scrydon grounds retrieval in the Cognitive Enterprise — the connected ontology, knowledge bases, and lakehouse — so an agent retrieves the right entities and the relationships between them, answers in business terms, and traces every answer back to defined concepts and their sources. The result is markedly higher precision, fewer hallucinations, and explainable, governed answers.

  • Retrieval over meaning, not just textQueries run against the ontology and its typed relationships, not similarity-matched chunks of text.

  • The right context, every timeRetrieval pulls the connected entities a question actually needs, instead of partial or off-topic passages.

  • Multi-hop reasoningAgents traverse relationships across the model that classical, chunk-based RAG simply cannot follow.

  • Cited and explainableEvery answer traces to defined concepts and their source data, rather than an opaque vector match.

  • Lower hallucination, governed by policyGrounding in verified business data and access controls keeps answers accurate and permitted.

WHY ENTERPRISE RAG

From confident guessing to verifiable answers

A model on its own will answer your questions confidently and sometimes wrongly, with no way to check where the answer came from. Enterprise RAG turns that into verifiable, grounded answers: retrieval anchors every response in your own data, citations make it checkable, and provenance makes it auditable. Grounding retrieval in the ontology — rather than a pile of documents — is what sharply reduces hallucination, because every answer traces back to a defined concept in your verified data.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

What is enterprise RAG?+
Enterprise RAG (retrieval-augmented generation) grounds AI answers in an organisation's own data: relevant facts are retrieved from its knowledge bases, ontology, and lakehouse before the model responds. On the AI OS it is sovereign — retrieval runs inside your perimeter, every answer carries citations and provenance, and outputs are governed, so agents answer from verified data with low hallucination.
How does RAG reduce hallucination?+
Instead of answering from generic model memory, the model answers from facts retrieved from your own data, with the sources attached. Because Scrydon grounds retrieval in the ontology rather than loose documents, agents pull the right entities and definitions, and every answer traces back to a defined concept — which is what sharply reduces hallucination and keeps responses checkable.
Where does the retrieval data come from?+
From your own Cognitive Enterprise: the ontology provides meaning, knowledge bases hold curated documents and expertise, and the lakehouse stores the underlying data with integrated vector search. RAG retrieves across all three inside your perimeter, so answers are grounded in your verified business data rather than an external corpus.
Is enterprise RAG sovereign and secure?+
Yes. Embeddings, vector search, retrieval, and generation all run inside your own perimeter — from air-gapped on-premises to cloud — with open-weight models where required. DLP screens outputs for sensitive data, access is scoped per identity, and nothing is sent to external services unless you explicitly opt in.
Do answers come with citations?+
Yes. Every RAG answer carries citations and provenance — links back to the source documents and data it was drawn from — so users and auditors can verify exactly where an answer came from, and the reasoning stays explainable and accountable.

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