Can your website answer questions about you?
Personal RAG Chatbot
Thrivbe built a retrieval-augmented chatbot running at the edge on robinsverd.com, grounded in Robin Sverd's own projects, writing and background, so visitors can ask the site questions instead of booking a call. Retrieval grounding is what separates a useful site assistant from a generic chatbot bolted onto a page.
- Claude
- Retrieval-augmented generation
- Edge runtime
Relevant services: AI Digital Teammates · Thrivbe AI
Hypothesis
A personal website is a static brochure. Ground a chat model in your actual corpus — projects, writing, background — and the site becomes something you can ask, giving visitors the conversation they'd otherwise need to book a call for.
What we built
The chatbot on robinsverd.com: a retrieval-augmented assistant running at the edge, grounded in Robin's own material, answering questions about work, background, and projects directly on the personal site.
Learnings
- Retrieval grounding is what separates "chatbot on a website" from a liability — ungrounded, the model cheerfully invents biography.
- Edge runtimes are picky: SDK versions that work locally can break at the edge, so the deployment target belongs in the test loop from day one.
- The corpus is the product. Curating what the bot may speak from (and what it must decline) is the real design work.
Log
- 2026-06-20 — Grounding corpus expanded; answer-quality pass.
- 2026-06-08 — First RAG chatbot live on the personal site.