# Managed Sync

Ingest your customers’ external data and enforce permissions without the overhead.

## Ingest structured and unstructured data with ease

Whether you’re building an AI feature, directional sync or need to ingest third-party analytics data, Sync has you covered.

### Ingest data for RAG

Give your AI product access to context from your users’ structured and unstructured data

- Managed access control via Permissions API
- Normalized file & document download APIs

[Learn more about ingestion for RAG](/content/use-case/data-ingestion/index.html)

### Common use cases

- AI copilot
- Enterprise search
- AI agent

#### Example

**Your AI agent**  
**YU**  
"How’s our sales performance QoQ as of Q1?"  
**Your AI agent**  
"There was a 15% increase in Q1 sales compared to last year, with the highest growth in the enterprise segment."

*Source: Salesforce_Q1_Sales_Report*  
*Source: Q1_Sales_Report_2025.xlsx*  
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### Backfill and sync new records effortlessly

Paragon handles both historical data backfills and real-time updates, ensuring your application always has the most up-to-date information.

- Historical data access
- Backfill historical data from any source with a single API call, with automatic pagination and error handling
- Configurable sync frequencies

[Read the docs](https://docs.useparagon.com/managed-sync/overview)

### Unified on your terms

Sync data from multiple integrations in a category via a normalized interface.

### Sync data from any third-party API

While support for additional out-of-the-box Syncs are being added every week, Paragon’s Source Framework lets you extend the Sync infrastructure to support custom connectors.

- Write custom Syncs for 3rd-party APIs not yet supported by Paragon.
- Full parity

### Reconcile permissions during retrieval

Don’t lose customer trust with mishandled permissions – easily check users’ access against indexed documents.

[Book demo](/content/book-demo/index.html)

#### Example

**Your AI agent**  
**YU**  
"What's the CEO salary?"  
**Your AI agent**  
"Retrieved 3 documents. Checking permissions. Sorry, I am unable to access that information for you. Have any other questions?"

```json
// Check user's permission to retrieved documents
POST https://managed-sync.useparagon.com/permissions/check {
  "object": [
    "Q1_roadmap.docx",
    "PM Notes",
    "Specs"
  ],
  "user": "yourcustomer@yourapp.ai",
  "role": "read"
}
```

## FAQ

If you’re looking for implementation specific questions, [book a demo](/content/book-demo/index.html)

- **How often do syncs run?**
- **Does Paragon store the synced data?**
- **How are 3rd-party rate limits handled?**
- **Can I customize the normalized schema?**
- **How do I handle permissions in RAG implementations?**

## Ready to get started?

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