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A RAG That Says β€œNot in This Document” Has to Show Four Kinds of Evidence

2 September 2026 at 14:00

Enterprise Document Intelligence [Vol.1 #B3] - A confident wrong answer is a bug. A bare β€œno answer” with no justification is almost as bad. Each of the four bricks has one piece of evidence to show

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FAQ as RAG: When You Get to Design the Corpus

31 August 2026 at 14:00

Enterprise Document Intelligence [Vol.1 #B2] - The FAQ inverts every brick of the standard RAG pipeline. Parsing is trivial, retrieval doubles as a cache, and few-shot prompting becomes a retrieval problem too

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Why RAG Complexity Should Be Earned

31 August 2026 at 12:30

A framework for building RAG pipelines that introduces complexity in response to observed failure modes, from lexical and hybrid search to reranking and agentic information seeking

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How Does a RAG Reranker Really Work?

26 August 2026 at 10:30

Enterprise Document Intelligence [Vol.1 #2D] - What data scientists say when asked, what the model actually does under the hood, and why the honest answer changes your architecture decisions in enterprise RAG

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Retrieve One Row from a Table, Not the Whole Table: Row-Level Chunks for RAG

21 August 2026 at 10:30

Enterprise Document Intelligence [Vol.1 #7sexies] - The unit of retrieval doesn’t have to be a page or a paragraph. When the corpus carries tables, each body row with its column headers is a chunk in its own right, and it’s often the one row the reader asked about

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Retrieve One Row from a Table, Not the Whole Table: Row-Level Chunks for RAG

21 August 2026 at 16:30

Enterprise Document Intelligence [Vol.1 #7sexies] - The unit of retrieval doesn’t have to be a page or a paragraph. When the corpus carries tables, each body row with its column headers is a chunk in its own right, and it’s often the one row the reader asked about

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Loop Engineering for RAG: The Small Loops Inside Each Step, the Big Loops Across the Pipeline

17 August 2026 at 12:00

Enterprise Document Intelligence [Vol.1 #13bis] - The four bricks return useful results most of the time. Loop engineering is what the system does the rest of the time: when retrieval misses, when generation fails the schema, when the listing comes back incomplete, when an API call times out. Three control surfaces (trigger, termination, recovery) and one rule that separates a useful loop from a spinning one

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Cut an Enterprise RAG Pipeline’s Latency and Cost by Calling the LLM Less, Not by Buying a Faster Model

13 August 2026 at 15:00

Enterprise Document Intelligence [Vol.1 #9ter] - The pipeline from Article 9 calls a model at several steps to be sure it is right. On easy questions that is needless latency. A per-question signal routes them past the model, about two seconds saved for a keyword match.

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Before Full Agentic RAG: Know How You Decide, and the Parsing Methods You Pick From

12 August 2026 at 16:30

Enterprise Document Intelligence [Vol.1 #5nonies] - Nature, plan, execute, synthesize: closing brick 1 with a dispatcher that reads each PDF’s nature and picks the method that fits, fitz, Docling, PaddleOCR, EasyOCR, MinerU or Surya, then folds the outputs into one corpus

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