What you can do
Build a searchable knowledge base
Ingest documents once, then query them. A persistent, indexed corpus you can search or ask questions over.Ingest
Upload files to a workspace and LightOn turns them into a searchable index
automatically, running the whole document-understanding pipeline for you.
Search
Hybrid semantic + lexical search with reranking across your document corpus.
Returns ranked chunks with scores, source metadata, and optional page images.
Ask
Retrieval-augmented generation in one call: a grounded LLM answer with the
sources it used, returned synchronously or streamed token by token.
Process documents on the fly
Convert or extract from a document in a single call. Nothing is stored, useful for feeding your own pipeline.Parse
Convert PDFs, Office files, and images to structured Markdown. Sync mode for
quick jobs, async for large documents. Nothing stored either way.
Extract
Pull typed fields out of documents using a JSON Schema you provide. Sync mode
for small files, async mode for large jobs.
Get started
Quickstart
Get a search result in under 5 minutes.
Authentication
Set up your API key.
API Reference
Full endpoint documentation.
