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LiveStarted June 8, 2026Updated June 20, 2026

Can your website answer questions about you?

Personal RAG Chatbot

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  • 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.