Conversations & citations
A conversation is a chat grounded in your documents, where every answer is traced to its source.
A conversation is a chat grounded in your documents. You ask a question, Nordvec retrieves the relevant passages, and it answers from them, citing the documents it used. If the documents do not support an answer, it says so rather than guessing.
Citations are the point
Every answer carries the sources it was built from. This is deliberate: a RAG answer you cannot trace is a liability, not a feature. The citations let a human jump to the exact document a claim came from and confirm it, which is exactly what regulated and high-stakes work needs.
Answers are generated by AI. Citations are what make them verifiable, not just plausible.
Working with conversations over the API
Through the API you manage the conversations themselves:
- Create a conversation owned by your workspace (
POST /conversations). - List and search your conversations (
/conversations,/conversations/search). - Retrieve a conversation with its recent messages (
/conversations/{id}), and page back through older history (/conversations/{id}/messages). - Associate documents with a conversation to scope what it draws on
(
/conversations/{id}/documents).
See the API reference for the exact request and response shapes.
Feedback
You can submit feedback on an answer and on the passages that were retrieved. That signal is used to improve retrieval quality over time.