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AI knowledge system
Istidlal
A production research system that combines multilingual retrieval, source verification, and structured AI answers.
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The problem
Research across classical Arabic and Urdu sources is slow, fragmented, and difficult to verify. A useful AI layer must retrieve the right passages and keep every answer anchored to inspectable source material.
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The system
Istidlal ingests, structures, indexes, and retrieves a large multilingual corpus. It combines semantic and full-text retrieval, reranking, citation assembly, and answer generation inside a production application with identity, subscriptions, and source-reading workflows.
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What the system handles
- Citation-grounded answers with inspectable sources
- Arabic and Urdu semantic, full-text, and hybrid retrieval
- PDF processing, OCR, transcription, and document ingestion
- RAG pipelines, reranking, and structured citation output
- Authentication, subscriptions, and production deployment
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Evidence in production.
Hundreds of classical booksHundreds of thousands of indexed passagesMultilingual source retrievalLive production system