Welcome to GENIE.AI
The one-pager — what GENIE.AI is, who it is for, and where to go next.
Get started
Be productive in 15 minutes — quickstarts, concepts, and FAQ for all four personas.
Mission
The Get started section turns a fresh reader into a productive user in under 15 minutes. Pick the persona that matches your goal — each quickstart ends with a verifiable artifact you can show someone else.
If you are…
- An end user who just needs to chat with the assistant → Quickstart: User (5 min)
- A deployer installing GENIE.AI for the first time → Quickstart: Deployer (15 min)
- A developer extending the backend or RAG pipeline → Quickstart: Developer (10 min)
- A contributor opening your first merge request → Quickstart: Contributor (10 min)
What is in this section
- Five-minute Quickstarts — one per persona, each ending with a runnable verification step.
- Concepts in 5 minutes — the 30-second mental model: query → embedding → retriever → reranker → LLM.
- Glossary — every acronym from
BM25toRAGtoOPEA. - FAQ — the 12 questions deployers ask first.
Pages in this section
- Welcome — the one-pager version.
- Quickstart: User
- Quickstart: Deployer
- Quickstart: Developer
- Quickstart: Contributor
- Concepts in 5 minutes
- Glossary
- FAQ
- Where to next?
Related sections
- Deploy — installation recipes for every host layout.
- Architecture — when you want the system map.
- Reference → Glossary — same glossary, kept here as a shortcut too.
Quickstart: User — chat in 10 minutes
Sign in to GENIE.AI, ask a question, read the sources, switch language, give feedback, and manage your conversation history.
Quickstart: Deployer — single-host Compose deployment
Production-ready single-host deploy of GENIE.AI with Docker Compose: secrets, profiles, smoke test, observability, and common pitfalls.
Quickstart: Developer — ship a service change in 30 minutes
Pick any service (backend, frontend, document-repository, dataprep), edit code on the host, rebuild one image, see the change live through NGINX, and run its test suite. All in Compose on a single laptop.
Quickstart: Contributor — open your first MR in 10 minutes
Open a merge request against GENIE.AI — fork, branch, write a test, push, and request review.
Concepts in 5 minutes
The 30-second mental model — query, embedding, retrieval, reranking, generation, translation.
FAQ
The 12 questions deployers ask first — answered in one paragraph each.
Where to next?
Persona-aware next-step pointers after the quickstart.