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Understanding AI Search

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Archevi uses advanced AI technology to understand your questions and find relevant information across all your documents. Unlike traditional keyword search, our AI understands meaning and context, making it feel like you're asking a knowledgeable assistant rather than searching a database.

How It Works

When you ask a question, Archevi's AI processes it through several stages:

  1. Understanding - The AI analyzes your question to understand what you're really asking, even if you phrase it casually
  2. Semantic Search - Rather than matching keywords, the AI searches for documents with similar meaning and relevance
  3. Context Analysis - The AI considers the context of your documents to provide the most relevant results
  4. Answer Extraction - When possible, the AI extracts and highlights the specific answer from your documents

Natural Language vs Keywords

The key difference between AI search and traditional search is that you can ask questions naturally:

Traditional Keyword Search

  • You search: passport expiry 2025
  • Requires exact word matches
  • Returns documents containing those words

AI Natural Language Search

  • You ask: "When does my passport expire?"
  • Understands you want expiry date information
  • Finds relevant documents even if they don't contain the word "expire"
  • Extracts the actual date from your passport document

What Makes Our AI Different

Archevi's AI is specifically trained to understand family documents. It recognizes:

  • Document types (passports, insurance cards, contracts, receipts)
  • Important dates (expiry dates, renewal dates, effective dates)
  • Key entities (names, addresses, policy numbers, amounts)
  • Relationships (connecting related documents together)

Privacy and AI Processing

Your privacy is paramount. All AI processing happens on our secure Canadian infrastructure. Your documents are never sent to third-party AI services, and we never use your data to train AI models. Learn more in our data protection guide.

Getting the Best Results

For tips on writing effective search queries, see our search tips guide. To understand the different types of questions you can ask, check out types of questions.