We’ve been talking about our new AI Assistants for a while now. But today, we’re doing something I’ve been wanting to do for a long time – giving you a place to test it out without having to deploy anything in Grooper.
What better way to show you the power of an AI Assistant – a member of your digital workforce (that’s the new name that these AI tools are being labeled as) than to host one on our new Grooper website for you to test?
The challenge has been what to show off. You’ve used chatbots – you know how they work. Grooper’s AI Assistants utilize retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) to limit and/or focus the responses based on resources that are configured in Grooper.
That means we can hand the assistant a bunch of your files, and it can answer questions about those documents and data.
Comparing the Grooper Chatbot to Other AI Chatbots
What Grooper does differently than other systems out there is that we’re a document company, so when we pull back information for you, we tie it back to the document where that data is located. You get a link back to where the AI found the information – this is how you build trust in your AI assistant.
We’ve built assistants internally to help us build RFPs, answer general accounting and HR questions, and several assistants for our clients. Most of these are AI Experts that have access to large amounts of data and make quick work of answering questions based on all that data.
But it’s hard to demo – you normally need to see your documents and data to really understand how Grooper works.
So what better way to show you than to give you an expert on a topic that has captured our attention as a nation for more than 50 years.
An Example of Our Chatbot: the JFK Assistant
In 2025, all remaining classified documents of the JFK Assassination Records were released.
So we took ALL the JFK files, not just the new ones, OCR’d it all (including all the hand-written documents), prepared it for a Large Language Model (LLM) to use, and made an Assistant out of it.
We haven’t released it yet – so as I’ve done with this newsletter, I like to give our clients a chance to see things before we release them to the general public.
The link is here for the JFK Assistant.
If you can come up with a better name for the Assistant – send me an email, and if I use your idea, I’ll send you some cool Grooper swag. There’s a reason Alexa isn’t called “The Amazon Assistant.”
Here are a few things to ask if you’re not sure where to start:
- Were there any unpublicized leads or suspects identified in internal agency communications that are not widely discussed?
- Were there any conspiracy theories discussed in the official documents?
- What information do the files provide about Oswald’s visits to the Cuban and Soviet embassies in Mexico City?
The questions are completely anonymous, and while a production AI Assistant will show you where the “answers” to your queries were found, we’ve turned that feature off since you can see those files in the archives.
And as always, if you want to discuss Grooper, your challenges, or other subjects, feel free to reach out, grab time on my calendar, send an email, etc.
