A retrieval-augmented assistant that lets non-technical teams ask questions of a 10-year data warehouse in plain English.
Client
Kestrel Analytics
Industry
Enterprise AI
Year
2025
What we did
AI & data, Platform engineering
The challenge
Kestrel’s analysts were a bottleneck. Every question from the business became a ticket, and answers took days.
Our approach
We built a governed RAG pipeline with vector search over their warehouse, citations on every answer, and guardrails reviewed by their data team — so trust was designed in, not bolted on.
Outcomes
70%
fewer ad-hoc analyst requests
<2s
median answer latency
100%
answers cite their source
Northbeam shipped responsible AI we can actually defend to our auditors.
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