The RAG ingestion layer problem: what it takes to build one
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Terms in this piece · Glossary
RAG — Retrieval-augmented generation — fetching relevant documents first and pasting them into the model's context so it answers from your data instead of memory.
Why it matters
A deep look at why RAGRetrieval-augmented generation — fetching relevant documents first and pasting them into the model's context so it answers from your data instead of memory.Full definition → pipelines fail at ingestion, not retrieval: reconciling inconsistent output from URL scraping, PDF layout parsing, and DOCX XML into one clean Markdown schema.
