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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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Noisy Text in RAG: Typos, OCR, and the Gap Classical Spell-Check Leaves

30 August 2026 at 13:00

Enterprise Document Intelligence [Vol.1 #B1] - Three sources of one problem. User typos, fast-typing transcription noise, OCR character errors. Classical spell-check handles one of them. Embeddings carry the rest

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RAG Is Not the Whole Toolkit: The NLP Techniques Real Problems Still Need

29 August 2026 at 13:00

Enterprise Document Intelligence [Vol.1 #B00] - Retrieval answers one kind of question. Classifying a request, matching free text to a reference list, reading a table, cleaning OCR noise: each has a cheaper method that works, and the engineering is knowing which one to reach for

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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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AI Agents Don’t Need More Context β€” They Need Typed Context

24 August 2026 at 12:00

AI agents don’t just have a context problemβ€”they have a context typing problem. When instructions, memory, retrieved evidence, and tool outputs are flattened into one string, their semantic boundaries can disappear. I built a lightweight, zero-dependency Python runtime that keeps those boundaries explicit, tracks provenance, and rejects invalid context transformations before they reach the model. This article walks through the implementation, tests, and what this approach doesβ€”and does notβ€”guarantee.

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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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