Deep dives on RAG, security, and building AI infrastructure that respects your data.
SSO with SAML 2.0 and OIDC, SCIM provisioning, an immutable audit log, white-labeling, encrypted backups, and air-gap licensing for regulated teams.
A practical guide to embedding Simmetric Chat on your site: sandboxed iframe loader, server-resolved model pin, lead capture, and CORS setup.
How Simmetric Chat authenticates every request, hashes API keys with HMAC-SHA256, signs webhooks and Web Push, and redacts PII with DLP filters.
Simmetric Chat scales horizontally behind any load balancer, with no sticky sessions. How state moves to Redis, Postgres, and the pg-boss job queue.
How vector similarity and PostgreSQL full-text search run in parallel and fuse through Reciprocal Rank Fusion into answers with citations and relevance scores.
A practical architecture for zero-outbound AI: Ollama as the local LLM, LanceDB for vectors, DLP redaction on every prompt, all in one offline container.
How Simmetric Chat's role-based access control uses 31 permissions and 13 menu sections to protect workspaces, projects, and audit trails.
The two-step loader and sandboxed iframe behind Simmetric Chat's widget, with isolated sessions, rate limiting, and layered knowledge-base access.
How Simmetric Chat orchestrates Ollama, OpenAI, Anthropic, OpenRouter, and Gemini with 20 provider presets, a Cmd+K model palette, and side-by-side comparison.
How Simmetric Chat reads scanned PDFs with a server-side vision-model OCR pipeline — page rendering, an Ollama vision model, and a human approve step.
The full deployment map for Simmetric Chat — a six-service Compose stack, a single all-in-one container for air-gapped hosts, and a one-click Coolify path.
Simmetric Chat speaks MCP in both directions — a curated marketplace of external tool servers, one-click installs, and per-chat control over what your agent can reach.