Case Study
Sokrateque.ai
AnAI-poweredresearchassistantthathelpsMaster'sandPhDstudentsnavigatethousandsofpagesofacademicliterature,deliveringinstant,citation-awareanswersthroughadvancedRAGandOCRpipelines.
Overview
The Challenge
Graduate students drown in papers. Finding the right insight across thousands of pages takes hours.
Sokrateque.ai is an EdTech startup based in Amsterdam, building intelligent tools for academic research. They needed an AI assistant that could understand complex academic language, handle diverse document formats, and deliver citation-aware answers in real time.
Client
Sokrateque.ai — Amsterdam, Netherlands
Timeline
10 Weeks — End-to-End Build
Industry
Education / EdTech / Academic Research
Tech Stack
OpenAI, Weaviate, FastAPI, Node.js, AWS EC2, S3, MySQL
How Sokrateque.ai turned thousands of research pages into instant, intelligent answers.
The solution had to support both pre-indexed retrieval and live, on-the-fly parsing of documents that hadn't been indexed yet — handling scanned PDFs, image-based papers, and digital publications alike.
What we delivered
Indexed + Live RAG Retrieval
Both pre-indexed vector search through Weaviate and direct, live on-the-fly parsing of documents that haven't been indexed yet — merging internal content with web data.
From Query to Cited Answer
Instant, citation-aware responses from thousands of academic pages. What took hours of manual searching now happens in seconds with proper academic reference standards.
Specialized Pipelines
Text extraction & OCR, prompt engineering, on-the-go RAG retrieval, and citation generation — each purpose-built for the complexity of academic research.
Citation-Aware Responses
Every answer includes proper academic citations, giving graduate students confidence in every piece of information and maintaining research integrity.
Capabilities
What we built
On-the-Go RAG Pipeline
Dual-mode retrieval supporting both indexed search through Weaviate Vector Database and direct, live parsing of documents without prior indexing — merging internal content with relevant web data for comprehensive answers.
Text Extraction & OCR Pipeline
Handles PDFs, Word files, and image-based documents, ensuring scanned academic papers are accurately processed.
Prompt Engineering Pipeline
Dynamic, context-aware prompts tailored to research questions with academic citation standards built in.
Scalable Cloud Architecture
FastAPI core services with Node.js async tasks, deployed on AWS EC2 with S3 for storage and MySQL for metadata.
Citation-Aware Responses
Every answer includes proper academic citations with reference standards, maintaining full research integrity.
From hours of searching to seconds of intelligent retrieval.
Sokrateque.ai now powers research workflows for graduate students, turning fragmented manual searching into instant, citation-aware discovery. The platform handles everything from scanned legacy papers to the latest digital publications.
"Xpiderz has been instrumental in bringing Sokrateque.ai to life. Their team built advanced multi-agent systems, integrated Power BI with LLMs, and delivered a seamless data exploration pipeline that exceeded our expectations. We're incredibly satisfied with their work."
Tjaco Walvis
Founder & CEO, Sokrateque.ai
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