RAG Foundations: Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Measure Misses and Leaks
Evaluate retrieval, answer support, and access control separately with a reproducible question set.
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- Admit Documents Deliberately — Free preview
Make ownership, permitted audiences, and document revisions part of ingestion before building a search index.
- Establish Search Baselines — Free preview
Measure exact-word retrieval and a tiny semantic representation before introducing a larger search stack.
- Keep Evidence Attached — Sign-in access
Choose chunk boundaries that preserve meaning and carry source coordinates through every transformation.
- Combine Rankings Without Hiding the Evidence — Sign-in access
Fuse complementary retrieval results and account for duplicates, permissions, and missing evidence.
- Answer Only What Is Supported — Free preview
Create answer contracts, validate citation identifiers, and make uncertainty useful to the reader.
- Read Tables With Their Context — Sign-in access
Represent tables and visual evidence without losing units, headers, coordinates, or uncertainty.
- Measure Misses and Leaks — Sign-in access
Evaluate retrieval, answer support, and access control separately with a reproducible question set.
- Ship Fieldnote With Evidence — Sign-in access
Assemble a local capstone with versioned artifacts, reproducible tests, and a release decision grounded in measured behavior.