Grounded answers over your own documents

Every answer, traced back to its source.

Atlas reads your PDFs — standards, manuals, datasheets, papers, digital or scanned — and answers questions about them in your language. Every claim carries a citation that opens the exact passage, highlighted on the page.

Try it on your own documents — we set up the workspace.

Interactive demo: Atlas answering questions about a snow-load code

Roof Snow Load Formula

You said:

How is the snow load on a roof calculated?

Atlas said:

Researched · 1 search · 6 sources
  1. Searched forcharacteristic value of the snow load on the roof

    6 passages

For the persistent/transient design situation, the characteristic snow load on the roof, ss, is given by relation (4.1) :

s=γIs μi Ce Ct sks = \gamma_{Is}\,\mu_i\,C_e\,C_t\,s_k

where :

  • γIs\gamma_{Is} is the importance-exposure factor for snow action;
  • μi\mu_i is the roof snow load shape coefficient (Chapter 5);
  • sks_k is the characteristic ground snow load at the site, in kN/m²;
  • CeC_e is the exposure coefficient and CtC_t the thermal coefficient.

The load acts vertically on the horizontal projection of the roof . For exceptional drifting treated as an accidental action, use relation (4.2), s=γIs μi sks = \gamma_{Is}\,\mu_i\,s_k, instead .

Sources

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Click a citation in the response to open the source page here.

CR 1-1-3-2012 Snow loads (excerpt)

A scripted walkthrough on a real document: CR 1-1-3-2012, the Romanian snow-load code (excerpt), shown in English translation. Pages, passages and highlights come from the actual ingestion pipeline; the answers are written to the agent’s own answering rules.

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indexes per passage: semantic, lexical and visual
≤ 3
rounds of search before every answer
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quotes written by the model — citations come from the index
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document language; answers come in yours

§ 1Principles

A confident answer isn’t the same as a correct one.

General-purpose assistants answer from memory, and sound just as sure when they’re wrong. Your team acts on answers — so Atlas answers from your documents only, and shows its work.

  1. 01Grounded

    Every value, formula and requirement comes from a passage retrieved from your workspace. No general knowledge, no “typical values”.

  2. 02Verifiable

    Every claim carries a citation. Hover it to read the passage word for word; click it to see the passage highlighted on its page.

  3. 03Candid

    When your documents don’t settle a question, Atlas says what’s missing and what it searched for, instead of guessing.

§ 2How it works

What happens between your PDF and a cited answer.

Follow one page of the snow-load code through the pipeline. The line boxes, chunks and highlight are Atlas’s own output for it, shown on the English edition of the page.

  1. 01Read

    Every page becomes text, math and coordinates.

    Each PDF — digital or scanned — goes through Mathpix OCR. Paragraphs come back as text, formulas as LaTeX, tables as tables, and every line with its exact position on the page.

    Mathpix /v3/pdf · per-line bounding boxes

  2. 02Chunk

    Split by structure, never mid-formula.

    A block-tree chunker follows the document’s own sections and clauses. Formulas, tables and figures stay whole as elements of their own, and every passage carries its section path.

    23 passages from this 5-page excerpt · token-aware

  3. 03Gloss

    Formulas, described in words.

    A dense formula rarely matches a question asked in words, so each one gets a one-sentence gloss in the document’s language, written from its surrounding text. The gloss is only for search — what you read is untouched.

    Gemini Flash-Lite · content-hash cached

  4. 04Index

    Indexed three ways.

    Each passage is embedded for meaning, indexed for its exact terms and — for figures — embedded as an image, so a drawing can be found by what it shows. All three live in one index, partitioned by workspace.

    voyage-4-large · BM25 · voyage-multimodal-3.5 · Qdrant

  5. 05Retrieve

    The agent searches like an expert would.

    Atlas turns your question into searches in the documents’ own language and terms, runs them on all three indexes, fuses the rankings, pins exact references like “(4.1)” and has a cross-encoder rerank the shortlist. If a passage points elsewhere, it searches again.

    Reciprocal rank fusion · Cohere rerank-v4.0-pro · up to 3 rounds

  6. 06Cite

    Every claim, one click from its source.

    The answer cites passages by id. Each chip carries the passage’s verbatim text from the index — the model never writes the quote — and opens the page with the passage highlighted.

    Highlight = the passage’s own line coordinates

§ 3Features

Built for documents where the details matter.

Standards with clause numbers, datasheets with footnotes, scanned archives, formulas that have to be exactly right.

Citations that carry the source

Hover a citation to read the passage word for word; click it to open the page with the passage highlighted. The quoted text is attached from the index — never written by the model.

Ask in your language

Documents in one language, questions in another. Atlas answers in yours, keeps formulas, clause numbers and units verbatim, and gives the source’s term the first time it translates one.

Scans, formulas and tables

OCR turns scanned pages into text, LaTeX and tables. Formulas render as real math, and tables and figures are never split in half.

Exact references, found exactly

Clause numbers, table IDs and symbols are matched literally, while semantic search handles paraphrase. A reference like “Tabelul 4.1” is pinned to its passage.

Answers that survive a reload

Answers are generated on the server. Close the tab, lose the connection or open the chat on another device — the answer keeps writing and picks up where you are.

Honest about gaps

Atlas grades what its search found before it writes. When the passages don’t answer the question, it says so — and never fills the gap from general knowledge.

  • Grounded

    Answers, citing each fact.

  • Not found

    Says the documents don’t cover it, and what it searched for.

§ 4Workspaces

Organize by workspace. Atlas decides where to look.

Group documents by project, client or discipline, and describe what each workspace holds. For every question the agent reads those descriptions and searches the workspaces that fit — several at once when a question spans them.

  • Routed by description

    No filters to set: the agent picks the workspaces from what you wrote about them.

  • Shared with one link

    Invite colleagues with a link. Rotate it to stop new joins, revoke it any time; owners manage members.

  • Self-serve uploads

    Members upload PDFs straight into a workspace and watch them process, stage by stage.

§ 5Security & control

Your documents stay yours.

Multi-tenant by construction: isolation is enforced in the index itself, not left to the model.

  • Isolated in the index

    Every search is filtered by workspace inside the vector database. Passages from other workspaces are never candidates, let alone results.

  • You control access

    Only members see a workspace. Invite links can be rotated or revoked, and owners remove members.

  • Hardened sessions

    HTTP-only session cookies, a strict Content-Security-Policy and rate-limited sign-in.

  • Predictable usage

    Per-user daily quotas on documents and pages, plus hourly chat limits — no runaway costs.

  • Grounded by design

    The model can only cite passages it retrieved, and the text behind a citation is attached from the index.

  • Degrades, never guesses

    If a search service is down, retrieval falls back. If nothing can be searched, Atlas says so instead of answering from memory.

§ 6Use cases

You bring the documents. Atlas makes them answerable.

Any technical library, in any language. A few of the questions teams ask:

  • Engineering & standards

    Eurocodes, national codes, design guides

    What minimum concrete cover applies for exposure class XC3?

  • Datasheets & manuals

    Product sheets, service manuals, specifications

    What is the maximum operating temperature of the pump seal?

  • Legal & compliance

    Contracts, regulations, internal policies

    Which clauses allow early termination, and with what notice?

  • Research & science

    Papers, technical reports, theses

    What sample size and confidence level did the study use?

  • Tenders & procurement

    Tender books, offers, bills of quantities

    What warranty period does the tender require for the roofing?

  • Internal knowledge

    Procedures, handbooks, process documentation

    Who approves a change order above 10,000 EUR?

§ 7FAQ

Questions, answered.

What documents can I upload?

PDFs — born-digital or scanned. Atlas extracts text, formulas, tables and figure captions, scans included. Uploads count towards a daily per-user quota of documents and pages.

Which languages does Atlas understand?

Documents can be in any language the OCR reads, and you can ask in a different one: Atlas answers in the language of your question and keeps formulas, clause numbers and quotes verbatim. The interface is in English and Romanian.

Can it make things up?

It is built not to. Atlas answers only from passages it retrieved from your workspaces, cites every fact, and says plainly when your documents don’t cover a question. For anything critical, the source is one click away — check it.

Who can see my documents?

Only members of the workspace you upload them to. Every search is filtered by workspace inside the index, and you control membership with an invite link you can rotate or revoke.

Which AI services does Atlas use?

Mathpix converts the PDFs, Voyage AI creates the embeddings, Cohere reranks search results, and Google Gemini writes the answers and formula glosses.

What if one of those services is down?

Atlas degrades instead of failing: without semantic search it falls back to lexical and image search; without the reranker it uses the fused ranking. If nothing can be searched, it tells you rather than answering from memory.

Can I try it with my own documents?

Yes. Book a demo and we’ll set up a workspace with a few of your PDFs, so you can judge the answers against sources you know.

Bring one document. Check every answer.

Send us a PDF you know inside out. We’ll set up a workspace, and you’ll see how Atlas answers — and exactly where each answer comes from.

or write to mihaicristianfarcas@gmail.com