AI CAPABILITY

Retrieval-augmented generation with LlamaIndex

We design and tune RAG pipelines that ground LLM answers in your own data — from chunking strategy and embeddings to hybrid search, reranking, and evaluation — so answers cite sources instead of guessing.

CAPABILITIES

What a good RAG system does

RAG is not a single trick — it's a stack of design choices, each one measurable and tunable against your data.

Chunking strategy

Semantic, structural, and window-based chunking tuned to your document types — the single biggest quality lever.

Embedding & re-embedding

Pick embedding models on quality vs cost, plan versioning, and re-embed cleanly as content or models change.

Vector store choice

Pinecone, Weaviate, pgvector, or Elastic — chosen on scale, filtering needs, and how much infrastructure you want to run.

Hybrid search (BM25 + vector)

Combine keyword and vector retrieval so exact terms, acronyms, and semantic paraphrases all win the right chunks.

Reranking & scoring

Cross-encoder rerankers and score thresholds cut noise and keep low-quality retrievals out of the final prompt.

Answer grounding

Answers cite the retrieved chunks, and prompts refuse to invent when retrieval comes up empty.

HOW WE ENGAGE

From raw content to grounded answers

A four-phase engagement that treats retrieval as an engineering problem, not a black box.

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Data audit

We inventory your sources, their structure, freshness, and access rules — the foundation every choice downstream rests on.

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Index design

Chunking, embeddings, metadata schema, and vector store selected against your query shapes and data volumes.

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Retrieval tuning

A retrieval eval set drives iteration on hybrid weights, reranking, and query rewrites until top-k is right.

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Evaluation & rollout

End-to-end answer evaluation, citation checks, and staged rollout behind flags with monitoring for drift.

TECHNOLOGY

The RAG stack we build on

Frameworks and stores chosen for retrieval quality, operational maturity, and cost at your scale.

LlamaIndex LangChain Pinecone Weaviate Postgres pgvector Elastic Cohere Rerank OpenAI embeddings Voyage Redis Python Node.js
USE CASES

Where RAG earns its keep

Retrieval-first architectures shine when answers must cite your data, not a model's pre-training.

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Product docs Q&A

A grounded assistant over your docs, changelogs, and API references — cited answers that stay in sync with releases.

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Sales enablement search

Reps ask natural questions across decks, battlecards, and call notes and get the exact slide or paragraph.

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Contract & legal review

Query clauses across a contract library with the source clause and section number returned alongside the answer.

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Support knowledge base

Agents and end-users get grounded answers over KB articles, past tickets, and product docs, with citations.

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Compliance & policy lookups

Policy assistants that quote the exact clause and version, so answers pass an internal audit.

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Internal wiki assistants

A search-and-ask layer over Confluence, Notion, or Google Drive that respects existing access controls.

BUSINESS IMPACT

Why teams invest in RAG

A well-tuned retrieval layer changes what an LLM feature can safely be used for.

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Answers grounded in your data

Responses cite your own documents, so the LLM stops speaking on topics outside your knowledge base.

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Lower hallucination rate

Retrieval, reranking, and refusal-when-empty push hallucination down to a rate you can measure and improve.

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Auditable citations

Every answer links back to the source chunks, so reviewers and end-users can verify without guesswork.

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Costs scale with usage

Retrieval keeps prompts compact, so per-query cost stays flat as your knowledge base grows.

FEATURED WORK

RAG in production

A retrieval pipeline built and tuned against real support content.

NeuraDesk case study AI • RAG

NeuraDesk

A retrieval-augmented support copilot that grounds answers in a company's own knowledge base.

LlamaIndex • Hybrid Search • Reranking • Evaluation

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WHY ZIKOSOFT

Why teams pick us for RAG

Retrieval-first engineers who've tuned real pipelines against messy, mixed-format data.

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We tune retrieval, not just prompts

Most quality wins come from chunking, hybrid weights, and reranking. That's where we spend our time.

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Evaluation on retrieval itself

A retrieval eval set lets us tell whether top-k is actually right before we touch the answer prompt.

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Own the outcome end-to-end

From ingestion to serving to monitoring, one team stays with the pipeline through the operational tail.

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Own your stack — no vendor lock-in

Indexes, embeddings, and eval sets live in your accounts. Swap vector stores or embedding providers without a rewrite.

FAQ

RAG questions we hear most

Practical answers on the design choices that decide whether a RAG system works.

What are the biggest chunking gotchas?
Chunking blindly by token count destroys structure. We chunk on semantic and structural boundaries, preserve headings as metadata, and tune size against retrieval eval scores rather than defaults.
Which vector database should we use?
It depends on scale, filtering, and how much infrastructure you want to run. Pinecone or Weaviate for managed, pgvector when data already lives in Postgres, Elastic when you need mature hybrid search.
Hybrid search or pure vector?
Hybrid almost always wins in production. Vector alone misses exact terms, IDs, and acronyms; BM25 alone misses paraphrase. We tune the fusion weights against your eval set.
How do we keep the index fresh?
Incremental ingestion, source-of-truth pointers, and re-embed jobs on schema or model changes. We instrument freshness so you can see how far behind the index is at any moment.
How do we handle multi-tenant isolation?
Metadata filters, namespaces, or per-tenant indexes depending on scale and compliance. Every retrieval query is scoped so a tenant can never see another tenant's chunks.
How do you evaluate retrieval quality?
A retrieval eval set of real queries with expected chunks, scored on recall and MRR. Separate from answer quality, so we know whether a bad answer came from bad retrieval or bad generation.

Ready to ground your LLM in real data?

Bring your content and a target use case. We'll come back with an index design and a retrieval evaluation plan.

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