An employee asks your internal assistant whether contractors can access a sensitive system. The assistant gives a polished answer, cites an outdated policy, and misses a regional exception. That is the production challenge with enterprise RAG. A convincing response is worthless when retrieval, permissions, or evidence are wrong.<\/p>\n
This guide provides a practical sequence for moving from a promising prototype to a bounded, measurable workflow. The central recommendation is simple. Validate retrieval before tuning generation, then scale only after quality, security, latency, and cost gates pass.<\/p>\n