Guides

Step-by-step guides for building with Antfly

Documentation

Guides

Each guide ends with one working thing. The concept pages explain how a part of the engine works so you can tune it.

Quickstart

Install Antfly, load data, and run your first queries

Build a Support Answer Agent

One call that answers a customer's question from your help articles, with reranking and pruning so it stays quiet when it has no evidence

Add Search and AI Answers to Your Site

A React page with live results and facets, plus an answer box that streams a grounded answer with sources, all on one Antfly table

Use Antfly from n8n

An n8n AI Agent that answers from your Antfly table over hosted MCP, with no application code between the two

Route Tickets with Retrieval

New tickets stream out of PostgreSQL and get assigned a team by the resolved tickets that look most like them

Power a Coding Copilot's Retrieval

A repo index that answers both exact symbol lookups and intent questions, returned as a context block sized to your model's budget

Stream PostgreSQL into Antfly

An Antfly table that mirrors a PostgreSQL table on its own, every insert, update, and delete included, with PostgreSQL still the system of record

Tune Hybrid Search

One query that matches exact words and meaning at once, with fusion, reranking, and pruning tuned for the results you actually want

Concept

Document Engine

How one query composes full-text, vector, filters, graph traversal, exact sort, and cursor pagination over a table's physical indexes

Concept

Artifact-Backed Indexes

How one full-text, vector, or graph index unions the records that enrichments generate, and how to tell when it is ready

Concept

Antfly Inference

The model runtime inside Antfly, what it runs, and how to pull and configure models for it

Concept

Local Model Compatibility

How Antfly decides whether a local model artifact can load, which artifacts are verified, and which are refused

Concept

Antfly Lite

How the embedded single-file profile of Antfly works, what it shares with a normal instance, and how data moves between the two

Concept

Multimodal Embeddings

Index and search images, audio, and documents with executable Antfly workflows