Retrieval control layer

Trusted knowledge
for AI agents.

Find Anything is a permission-aware retrieval control layer. It shows agents what they found, what they missed, where sources conflict, why one source ranked higher — and when retrieval should not be trusted.

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Google Drive integration built and tested — working in private beta; authenticated access pending Google restricted-scope verification. Other connectors are labeled Planned.
Find Anything governs retrieval evidence — it does not assert factual correctness or make decisions for you.

acme-ai · retrieval receipt · illustrative
Pricing Final.pdf
approved · v4 · updated Jul 22rank 1 · authoritative
Pricing Draft.pdf
draft · v2 · updated Jun 09rank 2 · superseded
Finance — Model.xlsx
outside your permission scopeexcluded
coverage 7/8 confidence medium conflict 1 detected citations 2
◆ Permission-scoped ◆ Exact citations ◆ Conflict detection ◆ Coverage accounting ◆ Replay & receipts ◆ Retrieval diffs
The problem

Agents retrieve confidently. That is the danger.

An AI agent will answer from whatever it can reach — the draft or the executed version, the newest file or the oldest. It rarely tells you what it missed or where its sources disagree.

01 / blind

No sense of what was missed

A result looks complete even when a permission wall or an outage hid the source that would have changed the answer.

02 / conflicted

Silent contradictions

Two documents state two different prices. The agent picks one and moves on — the contradiction never surfaces.

03 / unaccountable

No provenance you can audit

When the answer is wrong, there is no trace of what ranked, why, or which version governed the decision.

Synthetic demonstration · Acme AI

Two prices. Both kept. One governs.

An agent at the fictional Acme AI is asked for enterprise pricing and finds two documents that disagree. Find Anything preserves both, then explains which one should be trusted — and why.

Draft · supersededrank 2

Pricing Draft Pricing Draft.pdf

Annual
$95,000
Implementation
$20,000
kept · not authoritative
Retained for the record. Ranked lower because it is an earlier draft, unapproved, and superseded.
Final · authoritativerank 1

Pricing Final Pricing Final.pdf

Annual
$120,000
Implementation
$25,000
✓ ranks higher
Why this one leads:
  • Newer — updated after the draft
  • Approved in the document's status
  • Explicitly marked authoritative / final

Nothing is hidden. The contradiction is reported, both figures stay visible with exact citations, and the ranking rationale travels with the result. Find Anything explains the ranking — it does not claim which number is objectively correct.

Coverage & permission

Every search accounts for what it could not read.

For the same Acme AI question, eight sources are known to exist. Seven are within permission scope and were searched. One sits behind a wall the agent is not allowed to cross — so it is excluded and counted, never quietly dropped.

7 / 8
sources searched
1
excluded & accounted
Pricing Final.pdfsearched
Pricing Draft.pdfsearched
MSA — Acme & Northwind.docxsearched
Order Form Q3.pdfsearched
Discount Policy.gdocsearched
Deal Desk Notes.gdocsearched
Renewal Terms.pdfsearched
Finance — Model.xlsx · restrictedexcluded
  • Permission-scoped by design. Retrieval runs inside the permissions the agent already has. Restricted content is never fetched, extracted, indexed, quoted, or returned.
  • Excluded, not erased. Out-of-scope or unavailable sources are recorded when their existence is already known — here, the Finance file was inventoried during an earlier authorized sync and later became unavailable. The gap stays visible in the answer.
  • Fail closed. Uncertain or failed authorization blocks content retrieval; it never falls through to a fetch. Find Anything cannot discover files the connected account can't enumerate.
  • Honest denominator. Coverage is 7 of 8, not "complete." The count is what makes the result trustworthy.
Evidence you can audit

Answers arrive with their receipts attached.

Every result carries exact citations, source links, a confidence signal, and a replayable trace. Nothing is asserted without a pointer back to where it came from.

agent question

“What is Acme AI's current enterprise price?”

The governing figure is $120,000 / year plus $25,000 implementation, from the approved final document[1]. An earlier draft lists $95,000 / $20,000[2] and is flagged as superseded.

[1]Pricing Final.pdf · p.2 · “Annual license — $120,000”open source ↗
[2]Pricing Draft.pdf · p.1 · “Annual license — $95,000”open source ↗
retrieval confidenceMedium · 1 unresolved conflict, 1 source excluded
1
Trace

Scope resolved → 8 sources known, 7 in permission → 7 searched, 1 excluded.

2
Rank

Final ranked above Draft on recency + approved status + authoritative marker.

3
Conflict

Price mismatch detected between Draft and Final; both preserved and cited.

Receipt stored record of what ran Replay re-run from a stored receipt Diff compare two runs Trace step-by-step ranking

A receipt records what a retrieval ran against: document-version and index snapshots, the permission context, extraction and ranking configuration versions, and the query parameters. Replaying a stored receipt against unchanged inputs is deterministic. When documents, permissions, or configuration have changed, a re-run produces a diff — not a claim of the same result.

The control layer

Eleven guarantees, one retrieval call.

01

Permission-scoped retrieval

Runs inside the agent's existing permissions. Out-of-scope sources are never read.

02

Exact citations & links

Every claim points to a specific source, page, and passage you can open.

03

Conflicting-source detection

Disagreements between documents are surfaced, not silently resolved.

04

Authoritative-source ID

Recency, approval, and explicit markers explain which source should lead.

05

Retrieval confidence

A clear signal for when a result is solid — and when it is not.

06

Coverage accounting

What was searched vs. known to exist, including what was excluded and why.

07

Retrieval traces

A step-by-step record of scoping, ranking, and conflict handling.

08

Replay

Re-run a stored receipt. Unchanged inputs replay deterministically; changed inputs produce a diff.

09

Receipts

A stored record of what ran: snapshots, permission context, configuration versions, and query.

10

Retrieval diffs

See what changed between runs when your sources change.

11

Google Drive connector

Built and working in private beta; authenticated access pending Google verification. Other connectors are Planned.

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Built for agents

A single API returns the answer and all of its evidence together.

For developers

One call returns the answer and its evidence.

Give your agent a retrieval it can defend. The response carries citations, coverage, confidence, conflicts, and a replay handle — so your agent can decide whether to trust what it found.

  • Permission scope is enforced server-side, per request.
  • Conflicts and excluded sources are first-class fields, not prose.
  • Every response has a receipt_id for replay and diff.
  • Connector status is explicit — you always know what is Live vs. Planned.
POST /v1/retrieve 200 OK
// Response — synthetic Acme AI example
{
  "answer": "Enterprise: $120,000/yr + $25,000 impl.",
  "confidence": "medium",
  "citations": [
    { "source": "Pricing Final.pdf", "page": 2,
      "authoritative": true },
    { "source": "Pricing Draft.pdf", "page": 1,
      "superseded": true }
  ],
  "conflicts": [
    { "field": "annual_price",
      "values": ["$120,000", "$95,000"] }
  ],
  "coverage": { "known": 8, "searched": 7,
    "excluded": [{ "reason": "out_of_scope" }] },
  "receipt_id": "rcpt_9f2a…"   // replay + diff
}
Security & boundaries

Least privilege, all the way through.

Find Anything is a governance layer. Its whole job is to respect boundaries — so it is built to hold them.

Permission-aware retrieval

Results never cross a permission an agent doesn't hold. Scope is enforced on every request.

No content in logs

Traces and receipts record what ran and why — not the private contents of your documents.

Excluded stays excluded

An out-of-scope source contributes nothing to a result — not even its title or a snippet.

Auditable by construction

Receipts store what each retrieval ran against. Unchanged inputs replay deterministically; changed inputs produce a reviewable diff.

Connectors

Built today. Honest about the rest.

The Google Drive integration is built and tested, working in private beta while authenticated access awaits Google's restricted-scope verification. Everything else is labeled Planned — we don't claim integrations we haven't shipped.

Google Drive● Private beta
Slack○ Planned
Notion○ Planned
Confluence○ Planned
SharePoint○ Planned
Gmail○ Planned
Box○ Planned
GitHub○ Planned
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