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Turn Your Website Into an AI Knowledge Base

Crawl your entire website and convert it into a searchable AI knowledge base with automatic vector embeddings and incremental refresh.

The Problem

Your website contains the most up-to-date information about your products, pricing, documentation, and policies — but your AI workflows can't access it. Teams manually copy-paste web content into documents, which go stale immediately. Support agents answer questions from outdated knowledge bases. Sales reps reference pricing pages that changed last week.

The Solution

JieGou's website crawl pipeline automatically discovers, crawls, and indexes your entire website into a searchable knowledge base. Point it at your sitemap, configure crawl rules, and the pipeline handles the rest — extracting content, chunking for optimal retrieval, generating vector embeddings, and storing everything in Firestore with sub-second search. Incremental refresh keeps your knowledge base current without re-crawling unchanged pages.

Workflow Steps

Sitemap Discovery

Recipe Step

Fetches your sitemap.xml and discovers all indexable pages. Supports sitemap index files, nested sitemaps, and URL-based discovery fallback.

Smart Filtering

Condition

Applies exclusion patterns (e.g., /admin/*, /staging/*), URL canonicalization, and depth limits. Pre-crawl estimation shows page count and estimated processing time.

Crawl & Extract

Parallel

Crawls pages in parallel with configurable concurrency. Opt-in headless Chromium for JavaScript-rendered SPAs. Extracts clean text content, stripping navigation, footers, and boilerplate.

Chunk & Embed

Recipe Step

Splits content into optimal chunks using heading-based splitting with paragraph fallback. Generates vector embeddings via OpenAI text-embedding-3-small and stores in Firestore.

Incremental Refresh

Loop

Scheduled re-crawl checks for changed pages using content hashes. Only re-processes pages that have actually changed — saving compute and embedding costs.

Vector Search Ready

Recipe Step

Knowledge base is immediately available for all recipes and workflows. Firestore-native vector search with Redis caching delivers sub-second retrieval.

See the Engineering workflow in action

Expected Outcomes

  • Your entire website becomes a searchable AI knowledge base in minutes
  • Support workflows reference the latest product docs automatically
  • Incremental refresh keeps knowledge current without manual intervention
  • Sub-second vector search retrieves relevant content for every AI interaction
  • No external vector database required — Firestore handles everything

Learning Loop in Action

Week 1

Website is fully indexed. Recipes and workflows start retrieving web content via RAG. Retrieval relevance is good for well-structured pages.

Week 4

Incremental refresh has run multiple cycles — knowledge base tracks website changes automatically. Teams stop manually updating FAQ documents.

Week 8

Knowledge base covers 100% of website content. Redis caching delivers sub-second retrieval for repeat queries. Support accuracy improves measurably from always-current web content.

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