Source lifecycle
Connectors record ownership, freshness, document identity, and the rules for deletion and re-indexing.
- Source and content owner recorded
- Incremental updates and deletions handled
- Failed ingestion visible to operators
RAG quality starts before a prompt is sent. The system needs an explicit path from source ingestion to an authorized, cited answer.
Connectors record ownership, freshness, document identity, and the rules for deletion and re-indexing.
Every retrieval request carries the user's identity and applies an authorization filter before evidence reaches the model.
Answers include citations that resolve to the source and expose when the available evidence is insufficient.
Each stage has a separate question to answer and evidence required before release.
Inventory sources, owners, access rules, update frequency, document quality, and deletion requirements.
Create a retrieval test set from real questions, then measure whether the expected evidence appears before evaluating generated prose.
Set citation, refusal, formatting, and escalation rules for supported and unsupported questions.
Trace queries, retrieved passages, answer latency, citation coverage, feedback, and source-pipeline failures without logging private content indiscriminately.
One blended quality score hides the failure mode. We keep source, retrieval, generation, safety, and operation checks separate.
Did the system find the expected source, and did ranking put useful passages first?
Evidence found
Are material claims supported by retrieved passages, with usable citations?
Claims supported
Can any identity, role, or query path retrieve content the requester should not see?
Unauthorized results
Are stale sources, failed connectors, latency changes, and costly query patterns visible?
Failures detectable
We can assess an existing RAG application or build the retrieval and evaluation path needed to take it into production.
We build retrieval systems that respect source ownership and permissions, show their evidence, and can be evaluated before users depend on them.