Understand the product.
Follow the evidence.
A structured guide to Citely’s product, architecture, ingestion, retrieval, grounded answers, source viewers and evidence workflow.
What Citely is
Citely is an AI document chat workspace for people who need to question files and inspect where each answer came from. It brings a document library, scoped conversations, original-file readers, exact citations, saved evidence and revisioned notes into one workflow.
Where it helps
Trace a statement back to the exact passage before carrying it into analysis.
Question reports, policies and project files without losing the source context.
Keep citations, add manual highlights and develop notes alongside the material.
See how Citely fits together.
Six chapters move from upload to durable notes. Every poster shows one problem, mechanism or takeaway.
Explore the system
System architecture
How Citely connects identity, document processing, retrieval, answer generation and an evidence-first workspace.
Document ingestion pipeline
The stages that turn an uploaded file into searchable, versioned evidence.
Retrieval and ranking
How Citely combines semantic and lexical search before an answer is written.
Grounded answer generation
Prompt boundaries, validation and the response path behind a cited answer.
Original-file viewers
How the workspace keeps document context beside the conversation.
Citations, highlights and notes
Precise ranges, saved evidence and revision-safe working notes.
Security and privacy model
The controls that separate accounts, sources and generated output.
Interactive demo
What the public product tour demonstrates—and where its boundary is.