RAG Applications
Citation-backed RAG with chunking strategies, hybrid retrieval, reranking, and admin tooling—so operators can trace answers, tune relevance, and meet audit expectations.
Retrieval systems engineered for messy documents and accountable answers.
Phases
4-phase program
Timeline
MVP RAG programs commonly land in 6–10 weeks post-scope
Outcomes
3 target deliverables
Problem framing
Where teams lose leverage
Naive chunking and single-vector retrieval produce confident wrong answers. We engineer retrieval stacks with measurable precision/recall and operator workflows for continuous improvement.
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Tables, headers, and scanned PDFs break naive parsers and chunk boundaries.
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Without reranking, irrelevant chunks dominate context windows.
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Regulated teams need citations, retention policies, and exportable evidence.
Target outcomes
What this engagement delivers
Offline and online relevance metrics tied to product decisions
Traceable citations and admin review queues for low-confidence answers
Document processing pipelines with virus scanning and size governance
Scope
Deliverables we commit in writing
Exact backlog is tailored in discovery; below is representative of what enterprise buyers typically require for acceptance.
Layout-aware parsing, metadata enrichment, and domain-aware chunking
Hybrid lexical + dense retrieval with cross-encoder reranking
Confidence calibration, abstention policies, and human review hooks
Evaluation sets derived from real user failures—not toy benchmarks only
Program structure
Phased delivery model
Milestones map to artifacts you can review with engineering, security, and finance stakeholders.
Week 1
Corpus assessment
Formats, sensitivity, volume, and freshness requirements.
Weeks 1–3
Retrieval design
Indexing, chunking, reranking, and evaluation harness.
Weeks 3–7
Product wiring
UI patterns, admin tools, and production monitoring.
Week 7+
Tuning & launch
Continuous improvement loop with your subject-matter experts.
Reference view
Logical architecture
Your production topology will reflect your cloud, identity, and data residency choices — this diagram communicates control points and trust boundaries we design around.
Technology
Typical stack (vendor-neutral)
We standardize on primitives your team can operate — and avoid stack-lock where it hurts maintainability after handoff.
Indicative timeline
MVP RAG programs commonly land in 6–10 weeks post-scope
Final scope depends on your data maturity, integration count, and compliance requirements — all defined in the written SOW.
Get a scoped estimateGovernance
Security and compliance posture
We implement technical controls and documentation suitable for enterprise procurement — not checkbox theater.
Access-controlled corpora with immutable audit logs for sensitive queries
Configurable retention and export for e-discovery workflows where required
Separation of environments to prevent training leakage from production queries
Procurement
Statements of work, change control, and optional penetration-test windows are scoped explicitly. Legal sign-off remains with your counsel.
FAQ
Technical and commercial questions
RAG Applications
Ready to scope this engagement?
Thirty-minute discovery call. Fixed written scope within a week. No open-ended hourly burn.