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Notes from the Simmetric Chat team

Deep dives on RAG, security, and building AI infrastructure that respects your data.

Seven doors the platform opened this season
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Seven doors the platform opened this season

Connectors, a self-organizing wiki, safe custom skills, self-masking documents, ceilings you control, and an assistant that reads the disagreement between documents: a one-page tour with every door linked to its guide. Request a demo at the end.

Simmetric Team · 25/10/20264 min read
Several documents, one story: the disagreement surfaces itself
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Several documents, one story: the disagreement surfaces itself

When your documents tell the same story differently, the assistant reads them TOGETHER - and tells you, in answer, where the versions disagree. A person decides what the honest version is. Request a demo.

Simmetric Team · 24/10/20263 min read
The tools your offices already use, in both directions
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The tools your offices already use, in both directions

The assistant reads the documents and answers where your people already work, and the systems you already run can both give tools to the assistant and reach its answers - without new code. Request a demo.

Simmetric Team · 23/10/20263 min read
You set the ceilings: they apply before the money is spent
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You set the ceilings: they apply before the money is spent

Usage ceilings in an AI workspace usually arrive as a report after the bill. Now they arrive before the spend: per person or for the whole install, checked before every answer. Request a demo and watch the ceilings hold.

Simmetric Team · 22/10/20263 min read
Sensitive documents that mask themselves on entry
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Sensitive documents that mask themselves on entry

Codici fiscali, account numbers, IBANs: documents entering the workspace mask those details by themselves, number by number - the staff keeps working while the machine never quotes the raw data. Request a demo.

Simmetric Team · 21/10/20263 min read
Reusable instructions your team can call - with nothing to escape
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Reusable instructions your team can call - with nothing to escape

Write the routine's instruction once; your people call it from the chat with a command like /translate. Nothing gets executed and nothing connects to the outside: the safe way to share your organization's way of working. Request a demo.

Simmetric Team · 20/10/20263 min read
The knowledge base that organizes itself
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The knowledge base that organizes itself

The knowledge your team archives now builds its pages, keeps the connections and flags where documents disagree - within rules your IT office writes. Request a demo and see the wiki assemble itself.

Simmetric Team · 19/10/20263 min read
Your customers already chat where the answers live
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Your customers already chat where the answers live

Your customers write on WhatsApp, Telegram, Discord and Slack: from today those same channels answer with what your documents say, citation included. Request a demo and watch your knowledge answer where your customers already are.

Simmetric Team · 18/10/20263 min read
What's new in the workspace: connectors, wiki, skills, DLP, quotas, MCP, synthesis
Product Updates

What's new in the workspace: connectors, wiki, skills, DLP, quotas, MCP, synthesis

Per-area tour of the platform's gains since v0.22: connectors, wiki rails, custom skills, document DLP, hold-and-settle quotas, bidirectional MCP, synthesis. Each links its guide + post.

Simmetric Team · 17/10/20267 min read
The synthesis pipeline: contradictions, budgets, approval
Technical Deep Dives

The synthesis pipeline: contradictions, budgets, approval

The synthesis pipeline: an archive's documents become combined wiki pages - budgeted runs, judged contradictions, human-approved writes only. Census: F-SYNTH-1.

Simmetric Team · 16/10/20267 min read
Bidirectional MCP: the marketplace and the exposed RAG
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Bidirectional MCP: the marketplace and the exposed RAG

Bidirectional MCP: the marketplace's external servers become agent skills while the built-in server exposes the workspace RAG to IDEs - fallback, health, pins. F-MCP-1.

Simmetric Team · 15/10/20268 min read
Quotas and cost accounting: the hold-and-settle engine
Technical Deep Dives

Quotas and cost accounting: the hold-and-settle engine

How Simmetric Chat's quota engine covers tokens, storage, and real money - the ledger-backed no-second-meter design, the fail-open unset semantics, and the two-phase hold-and-settle reservation that turns spending limits from a report into a gate.

Simmetric Team · 14/10/20268 min read
The document DLP pipeline: masks that hold
Security

The document DLP pipeline: masks that hold

The document DLP: three detection tiers, document-wide numbered placeholders, a total re-embed, AES-256-GCM originals - and two explicit unmask gates. Census: F-DLP-1.

Simmetric Team · 13/10/20268 min read
Authoring custom skills: templates that stay safe
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Authoring custom skills: templates that stay safe

How Simmetric Chat's custom skills compile a stored prompt template into a spotlighted, untrusted context entry - the whitelist and single-pass rules, the three scoping levels, DLP masking before compile, and the max_skills freemium (3 or unlimited).

Simmetric Team · 12/10/20268 min read
The wiki knowledge engine: rules, guidelines, and synthesis
Technical Deep Dives

The wiki knowledge engine: rules, guidelines, and synthesis

How Simmetric Chat's wiki engine governs archive writes with a three-layer instruction model - code-enforced hard rules, an advisory per-archive schema prompt, and structured fields - and what the precedence chain means in practice.

Simmetric Team · 11/10/20267 min read
The connector adapter contract: channels and limits
Technical Deep Dives

The connector adapter contract: channels and limits

How Simmetric Chat routes external channels (Telegram, Discord, Slack, WhatsApp) through one adapter contract into the same grounded RAG pipeline - with rate and session limits protecting the workspace.

Simmetric Team · 10/10/20267 min read
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Product Updates

Introducing the Simmetric Chat Enterprise Plugin

SSO with SAML 2.0 and OIDC, SCIM provisioning, an immutable audit log, white-labeling, encrypted backups, and air-gap licensing for regulated teams.

Simmetric Team · 22/09/20269 min read
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Tutorials

Embedding a Knowledge-Base Chat Widget with Lead Capture

A practical guide to embedding Simmetric Chat on your site: sandboxed iframe loader, server-resolved model pin, lead capture, and CORS setup.

Simmetric Team · 15/09/20268 min read
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Security

Security Layers in Simmetric Chat: API Keys, Signed Webhooks, and DLP

How Simmetric Chat authenticates every request, hashes API keys with HMAC-SHA256, signs webhooks and Web Push, and redacts PII with DLP filters.

Simmetric Team · 08/09/202610 min read
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Technical Deep Dives

Scaling Simmetric Chat to Multiple Instances with Redis and pg-boss

Simmetric Chat scales horizontally behind any load balancer, with no sticky sessions. How state moves to Redis, Postgres, and the pg-boss job queue.

Simmetric Team · 03/09/20269 min read
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Technical Deep Dives

Building a Hybrid RAG Pipeline with Reciprocal Rank Fusion

How vector similarity and PostgreSQL full-text search run in parallel and fuse through Reciprocal Rank Fusion into answers with citations and relevance scores.

Simmetric Team · 12/06/20267 min read
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Security

Air-Gapped AI: Running LLMs Fully Offline with Ollama

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.

Simmetric Team · 28/05/20267 min read
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Security

Designing 44-Permission RBAC for AI Knowledge Bases

How Simmetric Chat's role-based access control uses 44 permissions and 15 menu sections to protect workspaces, projects, and audit trails.

Simmetric Team · 14/05/20268 min read
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Technical Deep Dives

Embeddable Chat Widgets: Architecture and Security

The two-step loader and sandboxed iframe behind Simmetric Chat's widget, with isolated sessions, rate limiting, and layered knowledge-base access.

Simmetric Team · 30/04/20267 min read
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Technical Deep Dives

Multi-LLM Orchestration: Model Switching, Comparison, and Fallback

How Simmetric Chat orchestrates Ollama, OpenAI, Anthropic, OpenRouter, and Gemini with 20 provider presets, a Cmd+K model palette, and side-by-side comparison.

Simmetric Team · 15/04/20267 min read
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Tutorials

Server-Side Vision-Model OCR for Scanned Documents

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.

Simmetric Team · 28/03/20266 min read
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Tutorials

Deploying Simmetric Chat with Docker: A Complete Guide

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 Team · 10/03/20267 min read
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Product Updates

MCP Marketplace: Connecting External Tools to Your AI Agent

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.

Simmetric Team · 24/02/20266 min read