Answerable · TechGuidr product
Your knowledge. Made answerable
Not by a generic chatbot. By an AI working environment built around your information, permissions, domain and workflows.
Answerable is an enterprise intelligence platform. It turns an organisation’s own research, documents and data into answers that cite their sources, so every point can be checked. It is real TechGuidr product, in production and daily use.
The product, working
Watch it answer across four domains
The Tenant & Branding Studio, then legal, engineering, wealth and customer support editions, each answering a question and showing the sources behind it.
What the film shows 1 minute 43 seconds, no sound
Real product screens from demonstration environments. Organisation and author names in them are fictional, and the figures show how the product answers, not findings.
How it works
From a question to the source behind the answer
One journey through Answerable Counsel, the legal and regulatory edition, from the opening screen to the source behind the answer. The same pattern runs in every edition.
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(opens the screen full size in a new tab)Real product screens from demonstration environments. Organisation and author names in them are fictional, and the figures show how the product answers, not findings.
Editions
One platform, set up for each domain
Each edition has its own sources, taxonomy, starter questions and look. Choose one to see its real screen.
Answerable Counsel: Legal & Regulatory
Set up for legal and regulatory work: legal briefs, compliance filings, case precedent and contract clauses.
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Answerable Default
The general configuration for research publications, forecasting and analysis: answers, search, summaries and comparison, with the sources shown.
Answerable Counsel: Legal & Regulatory
Set up for legal and regulatory work: legal briefs, compliance filings, case precedent and contract clauses.
Answerable STEM: STEM & Skills Intelligence
Set up for STEM participation, outreach impact and skills evidence, with cohort data joined to the publications.
Answerable Pulse: Market & Regulation
Set up for market and regulatory monitoring: market data, economic indicators, central bank decisions and regulatory change.
Answerable Assist: CX & Customer Support
Set up for customer service: knowledge base, support tickets, product reviews, sizing guides and return policies.
Answerable Advisory: Wealth Management
Set up for wealth management: portfolio strategy, asset allocation, market outlooks and fund insights.
Answerable Systems: Engineering & Cloud
Set up for engineering teams: architecture RFCs, design specifications, API documentation, runbooks and incident logs.
Answerable Clinical: Life Sciences & Pharma
Set up for life sciences: clinical trial dossiers, pharmacovigilance reports, biomarker studies and drug safety publications.
Tenant & Branding Studio
Configured per tenant, switched at runtime
The Studio sets each tenant’s branding, colours, domain taxonomy, search index and system prompts. The Enterprise Onboarding Studio is where an organisation’s knowledge is brought in before anyone asks a question.
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Connect and ingest
Bring in the organisation's documents and data through the connectors agreed for its sources.
Configure chunking and search
Set how each kind of content is divided and indexed, and tune the Azure AI Search configuration to it.
Set permissions
Decide which people and groups can see which collections and documents.
Choose the configuration
Start from a domain configuration, then adjust personas, system instructions and guardrails for the organisation.
Shape the experience
Set the views and workflow experiences each group of users needs.
Capabilities
Much more than chat over documents
What a buyer needs to trust an AI system with proprietary knowledge: the knowledge brought in properly, answers that can be checked and control over who sees what.
Your knowledge, brought in
Proprietary documents and data, ingested and kept current.
- Ingests proprietary organisational content and data
- Connectors and a data architecture designed around your sources
- Configurable chunking for different kinds of content
- Structured and unstructured knowledge together
- Separate knowledge collections for different purposes
- A searchable library of indexed publications, filtered by region, category and author
Answers people can check
Grounded generation, with the evidence on the page.
- Retrieval-augmented, grounded generation
- Structured answers, with tables where the question calls for them
- Numbered citations on each point, and a confidence rating
- A sources panel with each publication, its author, date and the passage relied on
- A reader that opens the full source document, tables included
- Search, summaries and comparison across documents and time
Control where it matters
The right people see the right things, and the system knows its limits.
- Permissions that follow who may see what
- Guardrails on what the system will and will not do
- Custom personas and system instructions
- Different views for different user contexts
- Analyst and expert views for review
Configured for the domain
One platform, set up as a separate tenant for each kind of work.
- Presets for legal, life sciences, engineering, wealth, customer support, markets, STEM and general research
- Branding, colours, domain taxonomy, search index and system prompts set per tenant
- Azure AI Search configuration tuned to the content
- Onboarding and configuration through the Enterprise Onboarding Studio
- Different knowledge collections for different user groups
In practice
Built around a research business, now in daily use
Answerable was conceived, designed and built by TechGuidr around the requirements of a leading economic intelligence business: more than 78,500 publications and 25 years of research, answered with sources a reader can check, and with current views kept separate from older ones.
Read the case studyIndependent by design
Used where it fits, and only then
In an engagement, Answerable can be the environment a workflow runs in, or a head start on a build of your own. If another product or the platform you already run is the better choice, we say so and build on that instead. Our interest in Answerable is always disclosed.
See the AI Work SprintIndustries
Where the editions are used
Each industry page shows the edition closest to its work.
- FeaturedResearch & insightResearch firms, analysts, market and economic intelligence, proprietary data businesses and specialist advisers.Explore research & insight
- Retail & consumerRetailers and consumer brands making trading, range and customer decisions on store, digital and supply-chain data.Explore retail & consumer
- Professional servicesLegal, accounting, consulting and specialist advisory firms whose product is expert time and judgement.Explore professional services
- Education & skillsUniversities, colleges, academy trusts, skills organisations and education businesses.Explore education & skills
- Manufacturing & industrialManufacturers, engineering and industrial businesses running plants, sites and complex products.Explore manufacturing & industrial
- Technology & softwareSoftware, SaaS and technology businesses building AI into products and platforms that need to scale.Explore technology & software
- Gaming & interactiveGames studios, publishers and interactive entertainment businesses.Explore gaming & interactive
- Not listed?Most of our work starts from a problem, not a sector. Reviews, builds, recovery, due diligence and leadership work wherever technology decides how the work gets done.See all services
How we engage
From a review to a workflow in use
Answerable fits inside the same commercial ladder as the rest of our AI work.
AI Work Review
from £7,50010 working days
Ten working days on how the work really happens: where expert time and value leak, the top three opportunities, how ready the knowledge and data are, the controls needed, the economics, an architecture direction and a prioritised roadmap.
AI Work Sprint
from £25,000Typically 4 to 6 weeks
One genuine working workflow, built on your own information: citations, permissions, expert review, evaluation, before-and-after measurement, the integration it needs and a pathway into production.
AI Work Programme
from £60,000Scoped to the function
Scale a proven workflow across a function or the business: further workflows on shared foundations for knowledge, permissions and evaluation, with the adoption work that makes the change stick.
Managed Improvement
from £5,000Per month
Keep the workflows in use getting better: ongoing evaluation, new workflows, model changes, optimisation, governance and improvement on an agreed monthly remit.
Smaller business or founder? Start with an AI Work Brief session: 90 minutes with Dan and a written readout, £1,250. Prices exclude VAT.
See Answerable in action
A working session in the edition closest to your work, on demonstration content, and a conversation about what it would take on your own information.