Assistants that answer from your own documents and cite where the answer came from — so they stay current without retraining.
Four areas where this work is won or lost.
Documents split by meaning rather than by page, with metadata kept, so retrieval finds the clause rather than the file.
Vector and keyword search combined, filtered by permissions and re-ranked — retrieval quality caps answer quality.
Every answer points to its source passage, and the system declines when nothing relevant was found.
A fixed question set scored on every change, so you can tell whether an edit made answers better or worse.
A short loop with a written result at every step.
What documents exist, how stale they are and who may read what. Most RAG failures are data problems, not model problems.
Chunking, embeddings and ranking tuned against real questions before any prompt work begins.
A test set built from real queries and known failures, run on every prompt or model change.
Chosen for your product, not for our habit.
Tell us what you have and who needs answers. We will start with the data, not with a demo.