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Retrieval-Augmented Generation, in Practice
Retrieval-augmented generation finds the relevant passages in your own material and gives them to the model with your question, so the answer is grounded in your documents rather than in whatever the model absorbed during training. These guides cover how that pipeline works and where it fits against the alternatives.
Private RAG Guide
RAG (retrieval-augmented generation) lets AI search your internal documents and answer with citations to the exact source. Learn how private RAG and verification work.
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Context engineering vs. RAG
Context engineering is the practice of curating everything an AI sees at answer time; RAG is one technique within it. Here is how they relate and when each matters.
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Give AI the right context
AI forgets because each chat starts blank and only sees what fits its context window. The fix: give it persistent, retrievable, cited context from your own documents.
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Knowledge base from documents
A step-by-step guide to turning a folder of documents into an AI knowledge base: gather, upload, ask, and verify. No tagging, schema, or code required.
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RAG hallucination rates
Retrieval-augmented generation cuts AI hallucinations sharply but does not eliminate them: Stanford measured 17-33% for leading legal RAG tools versus 43% for GPT-4. The numbers, and how to design around the residual.
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