EDMS / RAG Decision Support

Enterprises accumulate documents faster than people can find the relevant fragment. Reports, policies and historical decisions sit across systems, and answering a concrete question often means manually reading for hours.

A naive chatbot over documents is not enough: access control, document timeframes and organisational authorisation all determine who should see what — and wrong disclosure is worse than no answer.

Professional engagement on a confidential enterprise document management and reporting system. Specific client, UI, data and architectural details are not disclosed.

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A retrieval layer that selects documents the requesting user is authorised to see, filtered by timeframe and access policy before generation ever runs.

RAG over curated corpora so answers cite source material instead of improvising, with structured report outputs for decision-support workflows.

Human-in-the-loop review paths: the system proposes, people decide — appropriate for enterprise document contexts where errors have consequences.

Authorisation is enforced in the retrieval path, not as a prompt instruction — the model only ever sees documents the user is allowed to access.

Document metadata (effective dates, supersession, classification) is first-class, so timeframe questions return historically correct material rather than only latest revisions.

Generation is constrained to retrieved context with citations, and outputs are structured for decision-support review rather than free-form chat.

Concrete technologies, vendors, volumes and interfaces remain confidential and are deliberately omitted from this case study.