Pilot program

A working pilot in four weeks. A decision in eight.

A pilot is the right format for "try Archivez on your own corpus." Light commitment, scoped to one tenant, finished with a written usage report and a decision on production rollout.

Timeline

Four phases over four to eight weeks.

Week 1

Onboarding

Tenant provisioned on staging or prod. Admin users invited via email link. Initial bulk-upload of your sample document set.

Week 2

Ingestion + Gmail

Documents finish indexing (same day for under 1,000 files). Pilot users connect Gmail. Monitored senders configured per user.

Weeks 3–6

Active use

Pilot users ask questions, flag bad answers. Feedback loop on retrieval quality, citation accuracy, mobile UX. Weekly 30-min check-in.

Weeks 7–8

Decision

Usage report — query counts, top documents cited, eval-set scores against your corpus. Pricing for production rollout.

Scope

What a pilot looks like.

You provide

  • A primary contact for the duration of the pilot
  • A sample document set representative of your archive (1,000–5,000 files)
  • A pilot-user list (10–25 users)
  • A 30-minute weekly check-in
  • Honest feedback when an answer is wrong — flag it in-app, we look at it

We provide

  • Infrastructure — your own tenant, scoped subdomain, EU-hosted
  • Onboarding session for admins, walking through configuration
  • Language-specific evaluation against your own corpus
  • An IT runbook for your security and IT teams
  • Direct pilot support — not a generic help-desk queue

Decision criteria

What success looks like at week 8.

At the end of the pilot we share a usage report. It answers four questions your team needs answered before paying for production:

Quality

Did the answers cite the right sources?

Retrieval scores on your own corpus, sampled from real pilot queries. Comparison against an eval set baseline we build with you in week 1.

Usage

Did users actually use it?

Per-user query counts, top documents cited, retention week-over-week. If usage drops off in week 4, the pilot answers why before week 8 hits.

Cost

What would production cost?

Projected monthly AI spend at your real query rate, with a recommended per-tenant cost cap calibrated to your usage pattern.

Ready to scope a pilot?

A 30-minute intro call is enough to decide whether a pilot makes sense. Bring an example of the kind of question you wish your documents could answer.