Retrieval-Augmented Generation

RAG retrieves relevant material and supplies it as context to a language model. A useful system must evaluate both the retrieval step and the answer produced from it.

  • Prepare governed sources
  • Engineer retrieval
  • Evaluate the answer path
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Is this right for you?

When this is the right work.

You want an assistant to answer from approved enterprise knowledge while respecting access boundaries and acknowledging missing evidence.

The first conversation establishes the environment, the constraint and who will accept the result. We agree a bounded starting point before expanding the engagement.

Scope

What DotConn delivers.

  1. 01

    Prepare governed sources

    Identify permitted content, access rules, freshness and deletion behavior.

  2. 02

    Engineer retrieval

    Design ingestion, chunking, indexing and keyword or vector retrieval against actual questions.

  3. 03

    Evaluate the answer path

    Test grounding, relevance, source use, abstention and the experience when evidence is absent.

Deliverables

What you receive.

Acceptance criteria identify the checks, records and handover needed for the agreed scope.

  • Source and retrieval architecture
  • Ingestion and answer-generation implementation
  • Retrieval and end-to-end evaluation set

In practice

A practical example.

The situation

Employees need answers from approved operating documents without exposing restricted records.

Our approach

We preserve source permissions, build retrieval and evaluate answers alongside cases that should be refused or escalated.

The useful result

The result is an inspectable knowledge workflow with known limitations.

Responsibility

Agree the responsibility.

DotConn

Assesses and delivers the technical work in the agreed scope, with reviewable changes and handover. Continuing operation requires a separately defined managed-service scope.

Your team

Provides authorized access, business priorities and accountable decision-makers; approves policy choices and accepts the agreed result.

Set this boundary early

Retrieval does not guarantee a correct answer. Source quality, permission enforcement and evaluation remain part of the implementation and operating scope.

FAQ

Questions worth resolving.

Will uploading all documents make the system accurate?

No. Content quality, access rules, retrieval behavior and representative evaluation questions matter more than document volume alone.

Pricing, timing and how to prepare are covered in working with DotConn.