From messy folders to vectors: an ingestion mindset for policy RAG

Retrieval quality in an internal policy RAG is rarely fixed by swapping the chat model first. It is usually capped by how documents enter the system: file types, chunk boundaries, stable identifiers, and a repeatable path from source object to vector index. In practice you often see batch jobs or Lambdas, object storage for artifacts, and a managed vector service wired together the same way. ...

April 7, 2026 · 2 min · Me