Enterprise Knowledge Assistant
Reference solution for answering an enterprise knowledge question through request interpretation, internal knowledge retrieval, grounded answer generation, and — when selected — verification and revision.
Unit event
Knowledge Work Request
KNOWLEDGE_WORK_REQUESTOne enterprise knowledge question taken through request interpretation, internal knowledge retrieval, grounded answer generation, and—when selected—verification and revision.
Design variant
One retrieval pass and one grounded answer, with no separate verification or revision.
Scenario inputs
Every value this design resolves, and who owns it. Change an editable value and the figures recalculate. The pricing engine answers, not this page: nothing here multiplies anything, and until it answers the figures beside you are the ones you were already looking at, labelled as such.
57 fields
Understand Knowledge Request8 fields
Input tokens eligible for cached-input treatment.
Estimated prior-conversation tokens.
Estimated generated normalization tokens.
Estimated tokens in the employee's question.
Estimated system/policy prompt tokens.
Discover Relevant Internal Sources12 fields
Estimated token length of the retrieval query.
Embedding input tokens eligible for cached treatment.
Tokens submitted to the embedding model.
Number of candidate documents/chunks returned.
Estimated total tokens across candidate documents/chunks presented to reranking.
Retrieve & Rank Evidence11 fields
Number of candidate documents/chunks scored for the query.
Estimated total candidate-document tokens supplied to reranking.
Number of rerank queries.
Output tokens if the selected rerank commercial path meters them; zero in the pilot default.
Estimated tokens in the rerank query.
Estimated token size of assembled grounded context.
Synthesize Grounded Answer8 fields
Estimated answering instruction tokens.
Input tokens eligible for cached-input treatment.
Estimated generated answer tokens.
Tokens of the normalized request read by answering.
Tokens of grounded context read by answering.
Validate Grounding8 fields
Input tokens eligible for cached-input treatment.
Estimated generated verification tokens.
Tokens of the answer read by verification.
Tokens of grounded context read by verification.
Estimated verification instruction tokens.
Deliver Verified Answer10 fields
Input tokens eligible for cached-input treatment.
Estimated generated revised-answer tokens.
Tokens of the answer read by revision.
Tokens of the normalized request read by revision.
Tokens of grounded context read by revision.
Estimated revision instruction tokens.
Tokens of verification notes read by revision.
Cost by operation
Where the direct unit cost comes from. Expand an operation for the activities inside it and how each one resolved.
Understand Knowledge RequestComplete1 activity, 1 priced0.00168 USD24% of direct total
Interpret the employee's question and normalize it.
Interpret Knowledge Request
PricedInterpret the employee's knowledge question and normalize it for retrieval and answering.
A pricing request was made and returned an amount.
Discover Relevant Internal SourcesComplete3 activities, 1 priced0.000016 USD0% of direct total
Prepare and embed a retrieval query, and search enterprise knowledge.
Prepare Retrieval Query
No pricing requestPrepare a concise enterprise-knowledge retrieval query.
This activity does not price. No request was made, so there is no amount — not an amount of zero.
Embed Query
PricedGenerate a vector embedding for the retrieval query.
A pricing request was made and returned an amount.
Search Enterprise Knowledge
No pricing requestSearch enterprise knowledge using the query representation.
This activity does not price. No request was made, so there is no amount — not an amount of zero.
Retrieve & Rank EvidenceComplete2 activities, 1 priced0.0004 USD6% of direct total
Rerank the candidates and assemble the grounded context.
Rerank Candidates
PricedRerank retrieved candidates for relevance to the support query.
A pricing request was made and returned an amount.
Assemble Grounded Context
No pricing requestAssemble selected evidence into a bounded context for final response generation.
This activity does not price. No request was made, so there is no amount — not an amount of zero.
Synthesize Grounded AnswerComplete1 activity, 1 priced0.005 USD70% of direct total
Write the grounded answer with its citations.
Generate Grounded Knowledge Answer
PricedWrite the grounded answer, its source references and any next-step guidance the retrieved material supports. TEXT out: structured business content is not a STRUCTURED_DATA model contract.
A pricing request was made and returned an amount.
Validate GroundingComplete1 activity, 0 pricedNo amount
Check the answer against the evidence it cites.
Verify Grounded Knowledge Answer
Inactive×0Check the grounded answer against the evidence it cites.
The activity is switched off in this configuration, so it contributes nothing.
Deliver Verified AnswerComplete1 activity, 0 pricedNo amount
Revise the answer against the verification notes. Not a separately priced delivery step: Quick delivers the grounded answer itself.
Revise Grounded Knowledge Answer
Inactive×0Revise the grounded answer against the verification notes to produce the delivered answer.
The activity is switched off in this configuration, so it contributes nothing.
Direct unit total
0.007096 USDBars show each operation’s share of the stated direct unit total. An operation with no priced activity shows no amount, which is not an amount of zero.
Assumptions, issues and reproducibility
Activity states not exercised by this configuration
The read model reports these so their absence reads as absence rather than as coverage.
Issues
The runtime reported none for this configuration.
Technical detail and reproducibility
- Result source
- REFERENCE_PREFETCH
- Scenario configuration
- scenario:enterprise-knowledge:quick:audited-2026-09-20
- Pricing effective at
- 2026-09-20T00:00:00Z
- Definition fingerprint
- c512338c0648d88d41478663248a857616e16b5e14bd628fe05063024f521038
- Catalogue fingerprint
- fb4a33fb254bba125309001aadb10f470d9bf9f219404324ba86b2ad91c206f1
- Pricing engine version
- 0.7.0
- Pricing orchestration contract version
- v4
- Pricing rule registry version
- daf63fc55107b886370c9744e36b7276da8f235e6e5f8eb56a1d2214151568f5
- Scenario contract version
- v1
- Variant definition fingerprint
- c512338c0648d88d41478663248a857616e16b5e14bd628fe05063024f521038