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A decision engine for regulated work.

For work that can't be wrong. Pandotic reads the most complex, regulated documents in your field — and tells your experts where they stand against the rules that matter, and what to do about it. Every call backed by evidence, scored for confidence, built to be defended.

The ground
Knowledge base
Your data + the external rulebook — laws, codes, regulations, rubrics.
The work
Analysis
Read the complex artifact — the IEP, the floor plan, the supplier report, the bid.
The value
The decision
Where you stand + what to do — a verdict, a status, an allocation.
LLM-agnostic · not a walled garden

Pandotic connects AI to your domain. It doesn't build a competing one.

The model is configuration, not architecture. We build the decision layer on top of the world's best AI — not a replacement for it. Claude, GPT, Gemini, open-source models, or any combination sit under the engine. As better models ship, the engine updates. No lock-in, no proprietary LLM, no competing with your existing AI investments.

Supported today
Claude 3.5 / 4Anthropic
GPT-4o / o1OpenAI
Gemini 1.5 / 2.0Google
Open sourceLlama · Mistral · and more
↻ Updated as better models ship
The problem we solve

ChatGPT can't do this work. Neither can a custom LLM bolted to your database.

Every regulated team tries the same two things first. A generic chatbot invents answers from memory. A custom model over your own documents retrieves and sounds fluent — but still can't cite the rulebook, do the math, or be corrected. Neither produces something an expert will put their name on.

ChatGPTgeneric chatbot
Custom LLMon your own database
PandoticDecision Engine
Built for
Plausible answers, fast
Search & Q&A over your docs
Defensible decisions you can sign
The rulebook (laws, codes)
Paraphrased from memory
Only what you uploaded
Current, version-correct & cited
When it's wrong
Confident, and invisible
Fluent, but unverifiable
Flagged low-confidence, with the evidence
The numbers
Guessed
Guessed
Deterministic code — auditable
The output
An answer
A longer answer + citations
Verdict + evidence + confidence + override
Can your expert sign it?
No
Not really
Yes — built to be defended

The first two are built to sound right. Regulated work needs one built to be right — and prove it.

Why grounding matters

A knowledge base isn't a pile of documents in a chatbot.

The most common question we get: “can't I just upload our documents to an LLM?” You can — and for regulated work, that's exactly where it breaks. Here's the difference.

The usual approach

A pile of documents in an LLM

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  • Everything weighs the same. A forum post and a federal regulation are retrieved as equals — the model can't tell authority from anecdote.
  • Frozen at upload. It knows whatever you pasted, whenever you pasted it. Codes change; the pile doesn't.
  • No version or jurisdiction sense. v4 vs v4.1, your state vs another — it can't keep them straight.
  • Retrieval by vibes. Similarity search grabs passages that sound related, then the model fills the gaps — confidently.
  • No precedence when sources conflict. When two documents disagree, nothing decides which one wins.
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The Pandotic way

A governed knowledge base

AuthorityLaws & binding regulationcited
StandardCodes, frameworks & rubricsversioned
PolicyYour org's rules & precedentscoped
ContextRecords, history & notesranked
  • Ranked by authority. Law outranks standard outranks policy outranks anecdote — every time.
  • Version & jurisdiction aware. The engine knows which edition and which region governs this case.
  • Cited to the source. Every claim traces back to the exact rule it rests on — checkable, auditable.
  • Current & maintained. As regulations change, the knowledge base updates — not a frozen snapshot.
  • Conflicts resolved by precedence. When sources disagree, the hierarchy decides which one controls.

A pile of documents can tell you what a paragraph says. A governed knowledge base can tell you what actually governs your decision — and prove it.

How the engine works

From your documents to something you can act on.

One pipeline, every product. Ground it in what's true, read the hard documents, and turn the evidence into the tool the job actually needs.

01 · the ground

Knowledge base

Everything the engine is allowed to treat as true — your world, plus the rules that govern it.

Internal
Your data, history & records
External
Laws · codes · regulations · rubrics
02 · the work

Document & complex-data extraction

The engine reads the artifacts your experts read — and turns them into structured, scored evidence.

  • Ingest complex docs, drawings, models & data
  • Structured evidence with confidence
  • Score every requirement against the framework
  • Deterministic checks where the numbers matter
03 · the value — what you get
The smartest chatbotA grounded advisor that cites its evidence — and can't make things up.
Decision enginesA verdict, with the evidence and confidence to defend it.
Certification toolsCredit-by-credit, submittal to certified — defensibly.
Regulation mappingEvery requirement tracked to the rule it answers to.
One engineMany productsEvery regulated field
The three strata

Ground it, read it, decide.

One system in three layers. Each is a reason to trust it.

Stratum 1 · the ground

The knowledge base — your data and the rulebook

The foundation has two halves, and the second is the moat. Internal: your own data, history, and institutional knowledge. External: the codified authority your field answers to — LEED, IDEA, GRI/SASB/CSRD, an RFP rubric, building code. The engine treats authority as authority and anecdote as anecdote.

Internal recordsExternal laws · codesFramework / rubricVersion-aware
Stratum 2 · the work

The analysis engine — reading what's actually hard

A genuinely complex, domain-specific artifact gets read at a depth no one can sustain across a stack of them. Layered moderation on intake; many specialized agents in parallel; every requirement scored against the evidence; and where the artifact has structure, it's parsed and checked with deterministic code — not model guesswork.

Moderated intakeMulti-model orchestrationEvidence-to-framework scoringDeterministic QA
Stratum 3 · the value

The decision layer — output a professional will sign

The output has structure. Every verdict carries its supporting evidence and a confidence level. A recommendation or compliance path comes attached. Any value is expert-correctable, and the override propagates so the whole analysis stays consistent. An advisor explains it in plain language.

Verdict + evidence + confidenceRecommendation / pathOverride → recalculationLiving Canvas + voice
Inside the engine · KnowledgeEngine

The knowledge base is the floor — not the product.

Anyone can index a corpus and bolt on a chatbot. That gets you recall. It does not get you a verdict you can defend in front of a regulator, a client, or a court. The KnowledgeEngine is the system built on top of that floor — six reusable capabilities that turn a knowledge base into a product.

Go deeper into the engine →
The advisor
Living Canvas · voice
Overrides + recalculation
human-in-the-loop
Scoring + structured-artifact QA
evidence · confidence · BEM-QA
Multi-model orchestration
~60 agents, dependency-gated
The floor
Knowledge base
The domain corpus + framework. Where most “document AI” stops.
Applications

One engine. Every regulated field.

Every field is the same motion — only the rulebook, the artifact, and the output change. Pick a field to see how the engine points at it.

The application

Green building

LEEDSmartIn production
The knowledge base
Project data & prior submittalsLEED v4 / v4.1 / v5Energy code
The complex thing it reads

Green-building submittals + energy models — the hardest artifacts in the field.

What it produces

Get certified, credit by credit — with the evidence to defend every call to the reviewer.

Proof · LEEDSmart · in production

See it in production. LEEDSmart, today.

Green-building submittals in; credit-by-credit verdicts with evidence and confidence out; the energy model QA'd deterministically; an advisor that explains it all. Drag or step through the live product.

01 / 05  ·  the live LEEDSmart interface
Live productCredit-by-credit scorecard
Credit-by-credit scorecard
Every LEED credit scored toward the target, beside a live advisor grounded in this project's own data.
Evidence + confidence on every call
Evidence + confidence on every call
35.1% energy improvement, 4/4 prerequisites pass — each verdict carries the evidence and a confidence level.
Consistency check before export
Consistency check before export
Deterministic QA catches contradictory numbers across the submittal and blocks export until they're resolved.
Site intelligence
Site intelligence
Location & transport analysis on a live map — walking sheds, transit, and site data feeding the credits.
Submittal dashboard
Submittal dashboard
Projects, submittal counts, and review status — the engine's home base across every analysis.
One pass
every framework requirement scored, with evidence + confidence
Deterministic
energy-model math is auditable code, not model guesswork
Recalculates
expert overrides propagate through the dependency graph
Hardened
layered moderation on every uploaded document
Portable by design

Model-agnostic. Source-transparent. Always current.

A decision engine you can trust is one you can verify, own, and keep current. Ours isn't locked to a model, a vendor, or a frozen snapshot of the world.

Works with any LLM

The model is configuration, not architecture. Combine frontier and open models, swap them as better ones ship — Claude, GPT, Gemini, or open source. No lock-in.

Runs on your stack

Your cloud or your intranet. Your data stays inside your boundary — the engine comes to the data, not the other way around.

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Grounded in public truth

Built on public sources, laws, codes, and the standards your field answers to — version-correct, jurisdiction-aware, and cited so every call can be checked.

Constantly upgraded

As models advance and regulations change, the engine and its knowledge base update with them. You're always on the latest — not last year's snapshot.

Product + service

We don't hand you a tool. We build the system around your problem.

The engine is the platform. The engagement is how we point it at your world — your data, your regulatory environment, your process. For an organization, an industry, or a consultant, we build the whole thing with you.

Step 01

Build your knowledge base

We assemble your institutional data and the regulatory environment you operate in — laws, codes, standards, rubrics — into one grounded, version-correct source of truth.

Step 02

Onboard your process & criteria

We sit with your experts to capture how you actually work — your workflow, your evaluation criteria, your edge cases — so the engine reasons the way your best people do.

Step 03

Ship custom software

We build the product and the processes around it — tuned to your problem, running in production, owned by you and upgraded as your field changes.

The engine is the platform; the engagement is how we point it at your world. One partner, from knowledge base to working software.

Why it holds up

Grounded. Defensible. Built for complexity.

01

Grounded

Every output is anchored in your data and the current, version-correct rulebook — and cites the evidence for each call. It can't invent a regulation it isn't holding.

Cited sources · version-aware
02

Defensible

Verdict, evidence, and confidence on every requirement; deterministic math; an expert override that recalculates; a full audit trail. Built to show its work.

Confidence · override · audit trail
03

Built for complexity

It reads the artifacts your experts read — energy models, IEPs, floor plans, bid books, license stacks — at a depth no one can sustain across a stack of them.

Deterministic QA · multi-model
Bring us a framework

Tell us the documents and the rulebook.
We'll point the engine at it.

A pilot proves a single framework fast — the shortest path from “could AI do this?” to a verdict your experts will sign.