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In a retrieval-augmented chatbot, the model can only answer as well as the passages it's handed. Most disappointing RAG bots fail at retrieval, not generation: documents split mid-table, scanned PDFs never turned into text, headings stripped so a chunk loses its context, or a question phrased differently from the document so vector search misses it. The agent starts by inspecting your sources and choosing chunking that respects their structure, keeping section titles and page numbers attached to every piece.

Search usually combines keyword matching with vector similarity, because exact terms like part numbers and policy codes are where pure embeddings struggle. A reranking step then orders the candidates before the top few reach the model. Vectors live where they fit your stack, often Postgres with pgvector, or a hosted vector database for larger collections. If staff should only see documents they're allowed to open, each chunk carries its access tags and retrieval filters on them, rather than relying on the prompt to keep secrets.

Before launch, a test set of real questions with known answers measures two things separately: whether the right passage was retrieved, and whether the answer stayed faithful to it. That makes problems fixable instead of mysterious. Ingestion runs on a schedule or on change notifications from sources like Google Drive, SharePoint, Confluence or Notion, so edited documents are re-indexed and deleted ones disappear from answers.