Answer questions where people already are.

Grounded
Answers

Grounded in the documents, plans, and policies you provide — with the source cited. Out-of-scope questions get a clear redirect, never a guess.

The job

Someone just needs an answer.

They are not trying to enroll in anything and they are not recording work. They have one question, the answer exists in a document somewhere, and the path to it runs through a portal, a PDF, and a hold queue. So they call your team instead — and they ask the same seven questions everybody else asks.

Where answers go to die

  • ×A 60-page plan document, searchable in theory
  • ×A benefits portal with a password nobody remembers
  • ×A support line staffed during the hours people are at work
  • ×A general-purpose chatbot that confidently invents a deductible
  • ×The same seven questions, asked by everyone, answered one at a time

What Grounded Answers does

  • The question is asked in the channel they already use
  • The answer comes from your knowledge base, not from guesswork
  • The source is cited, so the person can verify it themselves
  • Anything outside your defined scope gets a clear redirect
  • The deflection is logged, so you can see what your team stopped fielding
An Ask Frank text conversation answering HSA and dependent-care FSA benefits questions with sourced answers
Benefits & HR Starter · Ask Frank
Not a chatbot

A wrong answer is worse than no answer.

In benefits, in HR, and in healthcare, a confidently invented answer is a liability. Grounded Answers is built so that the system would rather say “that's outside what I can answer” than produce a plausible sentence. That constraint is the product.

Grounded in your knowledge base

We answer from the documents, plan summaries, policies, and FAQs you provide — hosted by us or pulled from your existing systems. Answers cite the source so members can verify.

Domain guardrails built in

Questions outside your defined scope get a clear, concise redirect — not a guess. The system stays on-topic so your team doesn't have to police it.

Content gaps become visible

High-volume questions that weren't answered cleanly surface as gaps in the knowledge base — a list of exactly what to write next.

Evaluating this against an AI chatbot? See the comparison →

Start anywhere

Every customer starts with a Starter.

Each Starter is a knowledge base connection, default prompts, escalation routing, and a deflection report. The vocabulary changes. The grounding discipline does not.

Included in every Starter
  • Knowledge base
  • Default prompts
  • Source citation
  • Escalation routing
  • Deflection reporting
  • Guardrails
Expansion

Land one workflow. Expand from proof.

Support deflection is the first number you prove. Everything above it is the same conversation, doing more.

  1. Benefits Starter
  2. Escalation & Live Handoff
  3. Multilingual Support
  4. Content Gap Reporting
  5. Proactive Plan Notices
Family guarantees

What every Grounded Answers deployment guarantees.

These sit on top of the four things every Side Nerd product keeps true.

Answers grounded in your knowledge base

From the documents, plans, and policies you provide. No hallucinations. No out-of-scope responses.

Every answer cites its source

The member can verify the answer against the document it came from. Trust is checkable, not asserted.

Domain guardrails built in

Outside the defined scope, the system redirects rather than guesses. It stays on-topic without supervision.

Full visibility for admins

Every question, answer, escalation, and deflection — logged and searchable, filterable by topic and date.

Proof

See it working.

See it in 15 minutes

See what your support team stops fielding.

Bring the seven questions your team answers most. We'll show you those same answers, sourced and cited, delivered by text.