RAG Implementation Consultant

RAG Architecture & Implementation
— From $5,000

Stop your LLM from hallucinating. A full 6-layer RAG architecture engineered for your data — built for regulated industries where accuracy is not optional.

The Problem

LLMs Hallucinate Without Grounded Knowledge.
Your RAG Probably Isn't Fixing It.

Your team stopped trusting it

You built a RAG pipeline. It returned wrong answers three times. Your team quietly went back to manual search. The system still runs — it just costs money and delivers no value. This is the most common RAG outcome we see.

Chunking strategy is almost always wrong

Most RAG failures start with how documents are split. Overlapping chunks that miss context boundaries, fixed-size splits that cut tables in half, no hierarchy for multi-document relationships. The retrieval cannot work if the index is wrong.

Retrieval returns the right documents, wrong passages

Vector similarity alone is not enough. Without re-ranking, cross-encoder scoring, and hybrid retrieval combining semantic + keyword search, you get relevant documents with irrelevant sections filling your context window.

Regulated industries need a different architecture

Finance, legal, and healthcare cannot use hallucinating AI. They need citation-backed answers, source traceability, and — often — fully on-premise deployment with no data leaving the environment. Generic RAG tutorials do not cover this.

What You Get

The 6-Layer RAG Design Document

Layer 1

Ingestion & Chunking Strategy

Document-type-specific chunking rules, overlap ratios, hierarchy handling, table and image extraction, and metadata tagging schema.

Layer 2

Embedding Model Selection

Benchmarked model comparison for your domain. Fine-tuning recommendations if needed. Dimension optimization for your query volume.

Layer 3

Vector Store Architecture

Index design, namespace/collection strategy, filtering metadata schema, and scaling plan for your projected document volume.

Layer 4

Hybrid Retrieval Design

Combined vector + BM25 keyword retrieval, query expansion, and dynamic retrieval count based on query complexity.

Layer 5

Re-Ranking & Context Assembly

Cross-encoder re-ranking, context compression, deduplication, and context window budget allocation by source type.

Layer 6

Generation & Citation Engineering

System prompt architecture, citation format, confidence scoring, fallback behavior, and hallucination guardrails.

Industries

Built for regulated industries.

Financial Services

Investment research, regulatory filings, credit memos, earnings transcripts. RAG built for accuracy under compliance scrutiny.

  • 10-K / 10-Q analysis
  • Regulatory Q&A systems
  • Credit underwriting support

Legal

Contract analysis, case research, discovery document review. RAG that cites sources and never fabricates precedent.

  • Contract clause extraction
  • Case law research
  • Due diligence automation

Healthcare

Clinical protocols, formularies, patient intake. RAG with HIPAA-compliant architecture and on-prem deployment options.

  • Clinical decision support
  • Insurance prior auth
  • Medical coding assist
Process

Assessment in 5 days. Blueprint in 10.

01

Discovery Call

We map your data sources, document types, query patterns, and current system if one exists. 45 minutes.

02

Architecture Assessment

Diagnostic report on your current RAG system (or gap analysis if starting fresh). Identifies exactly which layers are failing.

03

6-Layer Design Document

Full written architecture specification covering all 6 layers with implementation details and vendor recommendations.

04

Handoff or Build

You take the blueprint and build in-house, or we implement it. Either way, you own every component permanently.

FAQ

Common questions.

Our RAG system is already built. Can you fix it?

Yes. Most of our RAG engagements are rescue projects. We start with a diagnostic to identify which of the 6 layers is failing — chunking strategy, embedding model, retrieval logic, re-ranking, context assembly, or generation instructions. Most problems are fixable without a full rebuild.

What vector databases do you work with?

Pinecone, Weaviate, Qdrant, pgvector, Chroma, and Azure AI Search. We recommend the right one based on your data volume, query pattern, and infrastructure — not what is easiest for us to implement.

How do you handle on-premise requirements?

Regulated industries often cannot use cloud-hosted LLMs. We design RAG architectures for fully on-prem deployments using open-weight models (Llama 3, Mistral, Phi-3) with no data leaving your environment.

What is the 6-layer RAG system?

Ingestion and chunking strategy, embedding model selection and tuning, vector store architecture, hybrid retrieval (vector + keyword), re-ranking and context compression, and generation prompt engineering. Each layer has measurable quality impact. Most RAG failures are single-layer problems.

How long does a full RAG implementation take?

The Architecture Blueprint takes 10 business days. Full implementation is typically 4–8 weeks depending on data volume and integration complexity. The blueprint gives you everything needed to build it in-house or with us.

Get Your RAG Blueprint

Stop the hallucinations.
Build RAG that works.

From $5,000. 10-day blueprint. Architecture you own permanently — whether you build it in-house or with us.