Retrieval‑Enhanced Generation for International Affairs

REGIA is a custom‑built research assistant for the UN and international affairs policy experts.

It leverages:

  • — The latest generative AI models;
  • — The UN’s vast collection of official documents; and
  • — A tailored approach to provide grounded responses to user queries, eliminating hallucination.
Use Cases

Constraints facing policy experts:

  • — Overwhelming volume of information on any given file
  • — Limited time to familiarize on a new topic or country context
  • — Fragmented access to authoritative UN documents across siloed platforms

Why current options fall short:

  • — Generic AI chat tools: hallucinate frequently and are poorly grounded in UN sources
  • — Keyword search engines: limited relevance unless exact phrasing is known in advance
  • — UN document portals: authoritative but slow to navigate and sift through documents

How REGIA can help international policy professionals:

Briefing notes

Rapid, referenced notes for briefings, meetings, background notes, etc.

Report drafting

First‑pass sections for reports, grounded in relevant citations and linked to the original source documents.

Research deep‑dives

Thematic and cross‑pillar scans of mandates, strategic assessments, operational developments, and past decisions.

How REGIA Works

REGIA delivers grounded, tailored responses to your policy questions through:

  • — Cutting‑edge AI: Uses the best‑performing Large Language Models (LLMs) across relevance, clarity, grounding, and use of citations — based on internal testing of 10+ LLMs.
  • — A curated UN database: Includes the most relevant documents for a given file and allows country‑specific, cross‑context, and thematic searches.
  • — Smart retrieval logic: Goes beyond keyword matching to retrieve the most contextually relevant documents to your queries.

REGIA is a modular and scalable tool built for UN experts by UN experts:

Curated UN corpus

Security Council resolutions, meeting records, SG reports, panel of experts reports, and more. Built for policy relevance and traceability.

Retrieval‑enhanced drafting

Retrieval‑enhanced AI generation synthesizes the most relevant information, yielding fast, factual drafts with inline citations and quotes.

Evaluation‑driven accuracy

Automated testing to establish baseline performance and improve response quality. Iterative evaluations guide parameter/prompt adjustment and help systematically avoid hallucination.

Mission‑ready architecture

Built for policy teams; supports research and analysis on thematic files, country contexts, and org‑specific priorities. Flexible application components allow adaptation for various users and use cases.

Product Roadmap

From prototype to production scale

Phase 1 — Early prototype

Web app showing proof of concept; basic query‑and‑response function; prototype database with a handful of country contexts (~600 documents).

Phase 2 — Functional product

Expansive UN document database (10,000+ documents); session memory for response follow up; customizable output formats.

Phase 3 — Product expansion

User uploads; more comprehensive document database plus integration with external databases; sophisticated AI workflows and tool‑calling; advanced response export options.

Contact

Show REGIA to your team

We can tailor a demonstration of the prototype application to your specifications, for teams at Permanent Missions, ministries, UN departments or agencies, and other partners. Find out how REGIA can help policy experts generate relevant outputs in seconds, grounded in the most authoritative UN sources.