HOW IT WORKS

From years of scattered information to a system your team can trust.

Silo North owns the difficult integration work. Proven open-source components handle commodity knowledge search and local model infrastructure.

What you already have

OUTLOOK / EMAIL

PDF / WORD

EXCEL / CSV

NETWORK SHARES

DATABASES / SQLITE

Silo North

DISCOVERY + CONNECTORS

NORMALIZATION

PROVENANCE + CHECKSUMS

PERMISSION MAPPING

VERIFICATION REPORTS

Installed knowledge system

OPEN-SOURCE KNOWLEDGE ENGINE

LOCAL MODEL RUNTIME

WEB UI

API / MCP

BACKUP / RESTORE

THE PROCESS

Six steps. Each one has an observable result.

Discover

Inventory approved sources and identify what can be read safely.

Extract

Use established parsers for documents and deterministic connectors for structured data.

Normalize

Create predictable records without losing the original path, identifier, timestamp or checksum.

Verify

Count successes, duplicates, unsupported files, extraction failures and permission conflicts.

Index

Hand normalized material to a replaceable open-source knowledge engine.

Operate

Monitor sources, storage, models, backups, restore and updates.

AN IMPORTANT DISTINCTION

Silo North is not another RAG engine.

We do not want your organization depending on a proprietary vector database, proprietary chat interface or a home-grown document parser that only we can maintain. Those are replaceable components.

The durable part is the integration layer: knowing what your sources are, what changed, what failed, where a record came from, who should be able to see it, and how to rebuild or move the downstream knowledge engine without starting over.