AI agent — An AI system that doesn't just answer once but works toward a goal in a loop — taking actions, reading the results, and deciding what to do next.
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
Finch is Uber's Slack AI agentAn AI system that doesn't just answer once but works toward a goal in a loop — taking actions, reading the results, and deciding what to do next.Full definition → that uses 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 → and self-querying to turn natural-language finance questions into secure structured data retrieval, replacing manual SQL lookups.
