Domain Knowledge Agents

Turn your private knowledge and expertise into domain knowledge agents that can answer questions, support workflows, and apply domain expertise.

Answer with Knowledge. Act with Skills.

The i80agent platform

AI That Understands Your World

Why not just use ChatGPT directly?

AI tools like ChatGPT already have tremendous knowledge, language and reasoning capabilities, especially when you provide the right context, documents, or information together with your question or task.

But as private knowledge grows and workflows become more specialized, ad hoc prompting becomes difficult to manage and scale. Real-world domains often need trusted knowledge retrieval, reusable expertise, structured reasoning, and more efficient ways to work with large and evolving knowledge bases.

Hospitality

Answer questions about guest services, local transportation, and operational rules.

Expert Review

Review reports, identify potential risks, and support safety-related decisions.

Personal Knowledge

Remember stories, personal notes, creative ideas, and experiences accumulated over time.

i80agent is a platform for building domain knowledge agents — grounded in private knowledge, real-world workflows, and domain expertise.
Capabilities

Two Capabilities, One Agent Platform

i80agent supports trusted retrieval, reusable skills, or a combination of both.

Retrieval

Trusted Knowledge Retrieval

For known questions, the agent retrieves grounded answers directly from your structured knowledge base, sometimes without calling an LLM.

  • Semantic search and trusted retrieval
  • Grounded in private domain knowledge
  • Fast, cost-efficient, and easy to validate
  • Optional LLM refinement for explanation or ambiguity

Example: “How to use Wifi?”

Skills

Reusable Agent Skills

For complex requests, the agent applies reusable expert skills for analysis, workflows, and decision support.

  • Reusable expert skills for review, analysis, and decision support
  • Guided reasoning based on domain expertise
  • Structured outputs for judgment-heavy workflows
  • Designed for cases where answers are not already stored

Example: “Apply the Medical Monitor Review skill to this adverse event listing.”

How it works

From user request to trusted response

i80agent supports different agent patterns. Some requests go directly to trusted knowledge. Others require agent skills guided by domain expertise. More advanced use cases can coordinate multiple agents through an orchestrator.

Retrieval and skills capabilities can work independently or together. More advanced systems may coordinate multiple agents through an orchestrator.

Examples

Built for private-domain use cases

i80agent is designed for domains where the most important knowledge lives inside private documents, workflows, business processes, and domain expertise.

Retrieval

Personal Knowledge

Cooking stories, memories, journals, creative processes, research notes, and personal archives.

Retrieval

Hospitality

Hotel guest assistants, restaurant knowledge systems, service operations, and internal SOP access.

Skill

Expert Review

Document review, risk analysis, workflow guidance, and operational support.

Retrieval + Skill

Business Operations

Internal support agents, HR onboarding, product documentation, and team knowledge systems.

Development Journey

Project Progress

What started as a personal experiment has grown into a broader exploration of how domain knowledge agents can be built, refined, and eventually made accessible to others.

I am building this in my spare time alongside a regular job, so progress comes in waves and moves more slowly than I would like. But life, cooking, travel and curiosity are also part of the journey.

Show project history
October 2024

Built the first working knowledge agent based on my personal cooking stories.

  • Built manually with AI assistance
  • Tested locally as a prototype for exploring private-domain knowledge retrieval
  • Structured around memory, retrieval, and answer generation
  • Focused on capturing personal knowledge rather than generic recipes
December 2024

Extended the same architecture to a real-world hotel assistant use case.

  • Hotel Assistant Agent deployed at Courtyard Shanghai International Tourism and Resorts Zone
  • Validated that domain-specific agents can support production environments
February 2025

Rebuilt the Alex Cooking agent into the Spontaneous Cooking by Alex set-menu dinner experience.

  • Adapted personal cooking knowledge into a guest-facing dinner experience
  • Tested the agent locally during live dinner settings
  • Explored how personal memory and storytelling can support hospitality experiences
2025

Continued improving retrieval quality, answer structure, embeddings, and practical usability.

  • Refined hotel-specific knowledge based on customer questions and feedback
  • Improved UI flow for a clearer guest assistant experience
  • Iterated on answer quality, coverage, and real-world usefulness
January – March 2026

Paused active development to rethink the foundation as AI tools and capabilities evolved faster than expected.

  • What makes an agent reusable across domains?
  • How should workflows be represented?
  • How can AI-assisted development reduce engineering overhead?
Starting April 2026

Began rebuilding i80agent using ChatGPT, OpenAI Codex, Claude Chat, and Claude Code, with a stronger focus on Retrieval Agents, Workflow Agents, and Orchestrator Agents.

May 2026

Expanded i80agent from knowledge retrieval into expert task execution.

Current Focus

The goal is to evolve i80agent into a generic platform for building domain knowledge agents that can retrieve knowledge, apply expert workflows, and coordinate real tasks.

  • Simpler agent creation and configuration
  • Better knowledge management and editing tools
  • Reusable agent skills for different expert domains
The story

Why I’m building this

It started with a simple realization: LLMs are powerful, but they do not know your personal or business knowledge.

What began with cooking stories and personal memory evolved into a broader vision: domain knowledge agents, reusable workflows, and real-world expertise.

How It All Began

Exploring Domain-Specific AI?

i80agent is still evolving.

Many of the ideas behind i80agent are being explored through real-world projects and guided implementations. The goal is not just to solve individual problems, but to discover reusable patterns that can eventually evolve into a broader agent platform.

If you have real-world use cases, are exploring domain-specific AI, or want to turn expert workflows into reusable agent skills, I’d love to connect and exchange ideas.

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