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Give the team one cited answer
from approved company files.

Organize policies, manuals, contracts, and product notes with owners and effective versions. Orkas answers from the current source, cites the page, and flags conflicts or questions that need escalation.

Start with
Approved policies, manuals, contracts, product notes, and their effective versions
Finish with
A cited answer, source register, escalation rules, and reusable knowledge material
Follow along

Answer a policy question with citations

Copy it, paste it into the Orkas input box, and start trying it.

Example request

Using the current employee handbook and leave policy, explain how many days of annual leave a new employee receives, cite the exact pages, and flag any conflict between the two documents instead of guessing.

What you receive

The answer first, with reusable knowledge files behind it

Every important claim points back to an approved source, while conflicts and escalation cases remain visible.

SOURCE

Knowledge source register

Owners, effective versions, and source status for the approved files.

knowledge-source-register.csv
ANSWER

Cited answer handbook

Reusable answers with page-level citations to the current sources.

cited-answer-handbook.docx
ESCALATION

Escalation and onboarding pack

Rules for unresolved questions plus a deck for employee onboarding.

human-escalation-rules.mdemployee-onboarding-deck.pptx
Detailed process

Register current sources, ask the question, check citations, package reusable answers

01

Register current files

Organize approved documents with owners, versions, and effective dates.

02

Ask the question

State the audience and the exact decision or answer the team needs.

03

Check citations and conflicts

Trace every claim to its page and flag disagreement between current sources.

04

Package for reuse

Turn approved answers into a handbook, escalation rules, and onboarding material.

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FAQ

Document Q&A questions

Common answers about citations, local indexing, and supported documents.

Can Orkas chat with my PDFs and documents?

Yes. Add PDFs and documents to your local Library; Orkas searches them and answers with citations to source chunks. Use Orkas-managed official models or connect your own provider.

Where are my documents stored?

By default the source files and vector index stay on your machine. Official models use Orkas services; own-provider model calls go direct. Optional sync stores the data you choose to sync on Orkas servers, and the free edition sends limited usage metadata, not your content.

Are the answers grounded, and do I get citations?

Yes. Answers are grounded in your documents and cite the source chunks the search hit, so you can open the original passage and verify it before you rely on it.

Is Orkas a private chat-with-PDF tool?

Yes. Your source files and local Library stay on your machine by default. Use Orkas-managed official models, or connect your own provider; own-provider model calls go direct.

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