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DETERMINANT SYSTEMS

Enterprise search consulting and implementation

One permissions-aware search across company knowledge.

We connect the repositories where your organization already keeps information and create a unified search and answer layer that understands meaning, respects source permissions, and shows the exact evidence behind every response.

Search the enterprise without pretending it is one database

Company knowledge is fragmented across document libraries, collaboration tools, shared drives, databases, email, and legacy indexes. A useful enterprise search layer must reconcile different content structures, update schedules, identities, and permission models without erasing the boundaries that protect the source systems.

We build continuously synchronized indexes where data can move and federated discovery where it cannot. Users get one query surface while each result retains its source, access rules, and route back to the authoritative record.

Core enterprise search capabilities

  • Connectors for SharePoint, Google Drive, OneDrive, Slack, email, S3, databases, websites, and existing indexes
  • Hybrid retrieval for natural-language concepts, exact terms, numbers, names, and identifiers
  • Permissions checked at query time and synchronized when source access changes
  • Cited answers that open the relevant passage instead of returning an unexplained summary
  • Federated discovery across divisions, partners, or enclaves without unnecessary data movement
  • Usage, quality, and failed-query analysis to improve coverage after launch

Answers and search results share the same evidence layer

Some questions need a ranked list of documents; others need a direct synthesis across several sources. We support both on the same retrieval foundation. The answer cites its passages, and users can fall back to the underlying results whenever the source context matters more than a summary.

This knowledge layer can also ground AI agents and applications, reducing duplicated ingestion and inconsistent permission behavior across separate projects.

Begin with the questions the organization cannot answer today

A pilot should include representative repositories, real access groups, and a question set drawn from actual work. We measure whether the correct source was available, found, permissioned, and cited. That makes coverage gaps visible before the system expands to additional business units or corpora.

FAQ

Questions teams ask before they build.

What systems can enterprise search connect to?

Common sources include SharePoint, Google Drive, OneDrive, Dropbox, Notion, Slack, email, Amazon S3, databases, websites, and existing search indexes. Custom connectors can be added for internal systems.

Does enterprise search copy all of our data?

Not necessarily. Some sources can be synchronized into an approved index, while federated discovery can query other boundaries without moving the underlying documents. The design depends on security and operational requirements.

How are document permissions enforced?

The search layer carries source identities and access controls into retrieval and checks them for each query. A result should not appear to someone who cannot open it in the authoritative system.

What is the difference between enterprise search and RAG?

Enterprise search finds and ranks relevant company information. RAG uses retrieved evidence as context for a language model to compose an answer. A mature system often provides both over one permission-aware retrieval layer.

Next step

Turn the use case into a working system.

Bring us one recurring process and the systems it touches. We’ll define what success means and show you the shortest path to production.

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