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Gi: AI Assistant for Employees and Managers

Gi is the conversational AI assistant employees and managers use on the platform, grounded in your own company knowledge: the documents your admins upload and the content published on your platform.

Gi: AI Assistant for Employees and Managers

Gi is the conversational AI assistant employees and managers use on the platform, grounded in your own company knowledge: the documents your admins upload and the content published on your platform.

What Gi does

Gi answers questions about company knowledge, policies, contacts, training and platform use. It answers from the documents, policies and content your organisation makes available to it, and is instructed not to answer beyond them.

When an answer is based on platform content, Gi can include a link to it so users can read the full context. When Gi does not find enough information, it is instructed to say so instead of guessing. Like any AI assistant, it can still make mistakes.

Gi is available on the platform when it is enabled for your organisation.

Key capabilities

  • Company context: answers grounded in your own documents and platform content.

  • Replies in the user's language: Gi detects the language of the question and answers in it.

  • Access controls: respects per-group document visibility.

  • Links to the source: links to the platform content that supports the answer.

The other GFoundry Intelligence agents

Gi is the assistant for employees. GFoundry Intelligence also includes agents for the backoffice, each with its own help article:

Who Gi is for

Employees: find information about the company mission, values, career progression, compliance policies, benefits and other common internal questions.

Managers: locate information for talent management, internal mobility and other people-related questions.

Where Gi gets its answers

Gi draws on two sources of knowledge inside your GFoundry environment:

  • Uploaded documents: PDF and CSV files that admins add in the backoffice. They can be restricted to specific groups so some content is only used for the users who should see it.

  • Platform content: for organisations where the content sync is set up, Gi also learns from the content published on your GFoundry platform, including the text of PDF attachments linked to it. Ask GFoundry support whether this is active for your organisation.

How knowledge is organised

Gi's knowledge is split into areas:

  • Human Resources: people policies, benefits, performance reviews, vacation, attendance, career development.

  • Organization: mission, values, history, general company information.

  • Learning: training calendars, courses, learning programmes, skills development.

  • Internal Contacts: staff directories, roles, finding the right person.

  • Platform Support: guidance on how to use the GFoundry platform.

An uploaded document goes to the area of the Document Category it is assigned to. Platform content is classified automatically into one area, by its dominant theme. Gi identifies the topic of each question and looks for the answer in the most relevant area.

Why this matters for your documents

Because each document lives in a single area, a long master document that mixes several topics will only be found for questions routed to that area. Splitting the content into focused, single-topic documents helps Gi reach the right answer reliably.

How Gi adapts answers to each user

Where GFoundry has computed a behavioural profile for the user, Gi can adjust the tone and suggestions of its answer, for example using the user's role, team, whether they manage people and their behavioural archetype. Gi does not add the user's name or email to what it sends to the AI provider, and it is instructed never to mention the archetype to the user.

Recommendations for the best results

The way you organise your knowledge has a direct impact on the quality and consistency of Gi's answers.

One document per topic

Prefer short, focused documents over long master files that mix several themes. A document called Vacation and Attendance FAQ will outperform the same content embedded inside a generic Employee FAQ. As a working split for a typical employee FAQ, consider:

  • Platform FAQ: how to log in, register ideas, use recognition, give feedback.

  • Vacation and Attendance FAQ: vacation entitlement, absences, flexible hours.

  • Insurance and Benefits FAQ: health insurance, benefits, performance bonuses.

  • Requests and Declarations FAQ: how to request documents and declarations.

Clear, descriptive titles

A title that names the topic explicitly (for example, Vacation Policy 2026) is easier to find than a generic one (for example, Document 14).

Keep the dominant theme at the top

Lead each document with a short summary of its main topic, then go into the detail. This is especially important for PDFs.

One language per document

Keep one document per language rather than mixing translations in the same file.

Use group segmentation deliberately

Restrict documents to groups only when the content is genuinely confidential or role-specific. Over-restricting reduces the pool of knowledge available to most users.

Retire what is out of date

Outdated documents stay in the knowledge base and can compete with the current source of truth. Archive or update them as part of your normal knowledge-management routine.

Privacy and data handling

Conversations

Conversations with Gi are stored in GFoundry. Administrators can read individual chat sessions in the backoffice, as a content-quality tool. Let employees know this, for example with a short notice at the chat entry point.

What the AI provider sees

Gi uses external AI providers (OpenAI and Google Gemini, depending on the knowledge area). The provider receives the user's question, the earlier turns of the conversation, the document excerpts relevant to the question and, where available, the profile context described above. Keep in mind that document excerpts are sent as written: if your documents contain names, emails or phone extensions, for example an internal contacts directory, those excerpts reach the provider when they are used to answer.

Document access controls

Group-based document visibility is applied when Gi searches for an answer. A document restricted to specific groups is not used to answer a question from a user outside those groups.

Contractual documents

The Data Processing Agreement, including the list of sub-processors, is available on request. For requests about stored conversations, contact GFoundry support.

Managing Gi in the backoffice

Admins have a Gi Bot area in the backoffice, with Document Management and Chat Sessions.

Document management

Select New Document, give it a Document Name, use Upload File, choose the Visibility and the Document Category, and optionally set Groups Segmentation. The visibility options are:

  • User-Accessible: users can see the document.

  • Bot-Only: Gi still uses the document to answer, but users cannot see it.

After you save, the document shows Waiting for indexing... and then Indexing... until it is Published. If indexing fails, the status is Error.

Chat session review

Chat Sessions lists the conversations with their first message, the date and the number of interactions. Open a session to read its Chat History.

Tracking document changes

Each document has a History section that records changes such as file updates, name and category changes, status updates and group segmentation changes.

Frequently asked questions

Why does Gi sometimes find an answer only after I rephrase the question?

Rephrasing changes how the question ranks against the available documents. If you see this on a recurring topic, the source document is usually mixed with other themes and would benefit from being split into a focused single-topic document.

Can the same document belong to more than one area?

No. Each document belongs to a single area. If a document covers several topics, split it into separate single-topic documents.

What is the difference between an uploaded document and platform content?

Uploaded documents are added by admins in the backoffice and typically contain reference material such as manuals, policies and FAQs. Platform content is the content already published on your GFoundry platform, which Gi learns from only where the content sync is set up for your organisation.

How long does it take for a new document to be available?

An uploaded document is available once its status is Published. Where the platform content sync is set up, it runs once a day.

What happens if I update a document that Gi already used?

Once the new version is indexed, Gi uses it for the next questions. There is no need to clear conversations or restart Gi.

Does Gi remember previous conversations?

Within a chat session, Gi uses earlier turns as context. Earlier sessions are stored so admins can review them.

What if Gi gives a confidently wrong answer?

Treat it as a signal that the knowledge base needs work. The most common causes are an outdated document still present in the corpus, two documents disagreeing on the same topic, or a master document where the relevant section is buried under unrelated content.

How do I report an issue with Gi to support?

Open a support ticket with the date and time of the conversation, the question, the answer received and the answer expected. The support team can then trace which documents were used and recommend the right correction.

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