Role-based AI answers for technical libraries.

Access maps to roles and certificates, so each person gets the documents their role includes.

Example from the Aviation Maintenance Library

Question: How are the types of corrosion identified and treated?

Aviation Maintenance Library

Daniel OkaforInspector with inspection authorization

Inspector

Strong match

Corrosion is identified by how it looks, then reworked the same way:

Surface: A general dulling that turns rough and frosted citation 1
Pitting: A white or gray powdery deposit; tiny pits show once it is cleaned away citation 2
Treatment: Strip the finish, remove corrosion products, restore the protective film citation 3

AC 43.13-1Bp.6-5

p.6-21

3 tiers searched · 2 pages citedCited

Sofia WhitakerA&P technician

Technician

Strong match

The handbook identifies corrosion by the metal and its corrosion product:

Aluminum: A white-to-grey powder citation 1
Steel: Reddish-brown oxide, or rust citation 1
Magnesium: White, powdery, snow-like mounds citation 1
Treatment: Clean and strip the area, remove corrosion products, neutralize residue, restore protective films citation 2

FAA-H-8083-30Bp.8-3

p.8-14

2 tiers searched · 2 pages citedCited

Theo LundStudent mechanic

Public

Not in your accessThe FAA AMT handbooks are Technician content.

From the public recordPart 43 sets the standard for maintenance work but does not describe corrosion types. Corrosion is covered in the FAA handbooks and in chapter 6 of AC 43.13-1B.

FAA-H-8083-30B Technician content · p.8-3

1 tier searched · 0 pages cited

Examples are built on public documents; access tiers are simulated.

Not everyone should get the same depth.

Training schools, repair stations and associations hold content for different roles. A student, a technician and an inspector ask the same question but need, and are allowed, different sources.

How Chairlift handles it

Each role maps to a tier of documents.
Chairlift answers from the documents that role includes, and cites the page.
When a role’s documents don’t cover a question, Chairlift says so.

One library. Each person searches only their part.

Every answer above was written from the documents lit for that person. Nothing locked was searched.

Each document in the Aviation Maintenance Library, whether each person’s grants open it, and whether their answer cited it.
Document	DanielInspector	SofiaTechnician	TheoPublic
14 CFR Part 43 Public	Opens	Opens	Opens
FAA-H-8083-30B Technician	Opens	Cited	Locked
FAA-H-8083-31B Technician	Opens	Opens	Locked
FAA-H-8083-32B Technician	Opens	Opens	Locked
AC 43.13-1B Inspector	Cited	Locked	Locked