This topic is less about “better search” and more about reducing confident wrong answers.
Retrieval quality, privacy/security, freshness, and operating cost are the core levers.
Practical checks
- Many “model” failures are actually retrieval failures—debug retrieval first.
- Without clear data access and PII policy, RAG projects often stall in operations.
- If freshness matters, design re-index cadence and evidence display together.















