# Introduction
Source: https://nordvec.com/docs/guides

Nordvec is an EU document-search and RAG platform. Search your documents over the API, and chat with grounded, cited answers in the app.

Nordvec turns your documents into a searchable knowledge base and a chat
assistant that answers from them, with citations you can verify. Your documents
are stored and searched in the EU.

In a hurry? Ask these docs directly, answered by our own EU AI, grounded in the
guides and cited so you can verify.

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Two things build on your documents:

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  <Card title="Search documents" href="/docs/guides/concepts/documents">
    Full-text search across everything you have ingested, ranked and sourced,
    from the app or with an API key.
  </Card>
  <Card title="Chat with citations" href="/docs/guides/concepts/conversations">
    Answers grounded in your documents, with every claim traced to its source,
    for signed-in people.
  </Card>
</Cards>

## Start here [#start-here]

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  <Card title="Getting started" href="/docs/guides/getting-started">
    Create an API key and run your first search in a few minutes.
  </Card>
  <Card title="Authentication" href="/docs/guides/authentication">
    Key classes, scopes, rotation and revocation.
  </Card>
  <Card title="Errors and rate limits" href="/docs/guides/errors-and-rate-limits">
    One error envelope, the rate-limit headers, and safe retries.
  </Card>
  <Card title="API reference" href="/docs/api">
    Every endpoint, generated from our OpenAPI document.
  </Card>
</Cards>

## Who it is for [#who-it-is-for]

Nordvec serves both an individual solving their own document sprawl and a
business rolling it out across teams, over the same API. Start solo, grow into an
organization without switching platforms.