# From Metadata to Knowledge Discovery: Why I Am Not Starting With a Chatbot

A lot of AI products today start with the same idea: Upload documents. Ask questions. Get answers. In other words: Chat with your documents. That is a powerful pattern. But for enterprise data engineering, I do not think every AI product needs to start as a chatbot. In fact, starting with a chatbot can make the first version unnecessarily complex. The moment we create an open-ended chatbot, we also need to think about: RAG permissions citations hallucinations evaluation guardrails scope...