Grounded in your data

RAG Development

Retrieval-augmented generation lets a model answer from your private knowledge without retraining it. Almost every RAG failure is a retrieval failure — which is why we build it as a search problem first.

Engagements from $10,000 to $100,000+Serving USA · UAE · UK · Canada · EuropeYou own the code and the IP
The problem

Why naive RAG returns confident nonsense

Split documents every 500 characters, embed, search, generate. It demos fine and fails in production.

Fixed-size chunking cuts tables in half and separates headings from the content they describe. Pure semantic search misses exact identifiers — a part number, a policy code — because embeddings are poor at literal matching. No metadata filtering means a 2019 superseded policy competes with the current one. No re-ranking means the top result is whatever happened to be closest in vector space, which is often not the most relevant.

Fixing each of those is unglamorous engineering, and it is the entire difference between a RAG system people trust and one they quietly stop using.

  • Layout-aware chunking that preserves tables, headings and structure
  • Hybrid search combining semantic and keyword matching
  • Metadata filtering on date, department, document type and version
  • Cross-encoder re-ranking of candidates before generation
  • Query rewriting to expand acronyms and resolve context
  • Explicit refusal when retrieval returns nothing relevant
  • Citations on every answer so users can verify in one click
Use cases

What RAG is used for

Internal knowledge assistants

Policy, process and product questions answered from current documentation.

Customer support grounding

Support agents and bots answering from verified sources rather than recall.

Contract and document Q&A

Query a repository of agreements for terms, obligations and dates.

Technical documentation search

Engineers finding the right answer across versions and product lines.

Regulatory and compliance lookup

Current requirements retrieved with the source clause cited.

Sales enablement

Reps answering product and pricing questions accurately during a live call.

Architecture

The full pipeline

Each stage is independently measurable — retrieval precision and recall are tracked separately from answer quality.

01 IngestionConnectors to SharePoint, Drive, Confluence, S3, databases and web sources, with change detection and deduplication.
02 ParsingLayout-aware extraction preserving tables, headings, lists and reading order across PDF, Office and HTML.
03 ChunkingStructure-aware splitting with parent-child relationships and inherited metadata.
04 EmbeddingModel chosen per content type, with dimension and cost trade-offs measured.
05 IndexingVector index plus keyword index, with metadata fields for filtering and access control.
06 Query processingRewriting, acronym expansion, and decomposition of multi-part questions.
07 Hybrid retrievalSemantic and BM25 results fused, filtered by metadata and user permissions.
08 Re-rankingA cross-encoder scores candidates for actual relevance before anything reaches the model.
09 GenerationAnswer composed only from retrieved context, with citations and an explicit refusal path.
  • Retrieval measured separately from generation
  • Golden question set built from real user queries
  • Incremental re-indexing on document change
  • Permission filters applied at query time, per user
Integrations

Vector and search technologies

Chosen on volume, filtering needs and what you already operate.

  • PostgreSQL with pgvector — the default for most projects
  • Pinecone for managed scale
  • Qdrant for self-hosted control
  • Weaviate for hybrid search out of the box
  • Azure AI Search where you are Azure-committed
  • Elasticsearch when you already run it
  • Redis for caching and low-latency lookups
How we deliver

Ten stages from first call to a system your team trusts

Every AI engagement runs this sequence. Small projects compress stages; regulated projects expand them. Nothing gets skipped silently.

Discovery

A working session with your operations and engineering leads to map the process, the systems it touches, and where the cost actually sits.

AI Opportunity Assessment

We score candidate use cases on data readiness, volume, error tolerance and payback, then rank them. Some come back "do not use AI for this" — you get that answer too.

Solution Architecture

Model selection, retrieval design, tool boundaries, data flow, failure modes and hosting topology, documented before code.

Proof of Concept

A narrow build against your real data to prove accuracy on the cases that matter, typically 2–4 weeks. Go / no-go decision at the end.

MVP

One workflow, end to end, in the hands of real users. Evaluation sets and quality thresholds are defined here, not retrofitted.

Production Development

Hardening: error handling, retries, fallbacks, cost controls, rate limits, observability, and a human escalation path for every automated decision.

Integration

Wiring into your CRM, ERP, HRMS, data warehouse, ticketing and messaging channels through APIs, webhooks and event queues.

Security Testing

Prompt-injection testing, access-control verification, PII handling review, dependency scanning and penetration testing before go-live.

Deployment

Staged rollout on your cloud or ours, with CI/CD, versioned prompts and models, and rollback in place from day one.

Monitoring & Optimization

Quality dashboards, drift detection, cost-per-transaction tracking and a retraining or re-prompting cadence agreed in writing.

Security & Governance

Security-conscious architecture, from the first design review

Enterprise AI fails on governance more often than on models. Every system we build is designed to support enterprise security requirements and to give your risk team answers rather than assurances.

Data privacy & residency

Your data stays in the region and tenancy you nominate. We architect for no-training-on-your-data configurations and document exactly which vendor endpoints see which fields.

Role-based access control

Retrieval and tool permissions inherit your existing roles. A user cannot surface a document through the AI that they could not open directly.

Authentication & authorization

SSO via OIDC/SAML, short-lived tokens for agent tool calls, and per-tool scopes so an agent holds the narrowest possible privilege.

Encryption

TLS in transit, AES-256 at rest, managed keys via your cloud KMS, and encrypted vector stores for embedded content.

API security

Gateway-level authentication, signed webhooks, IP allowlisting, request validation and quota enforcement on every exposed endpoint.

Audit logging

Every prompt, retrieval, tool call, model version and human override is logged with a trace ID, so any output can be reconstructed months later.

Data isolation

Per-tenant separation at the storage, index and key level for multi-entity groups and regulated environments.

Secure prompt handling

System instructions are server-side, user content is treated as untrusted input, and we test against prompt-injection and tool-abuse patterns.

PII protection

Detection, masking or tokenisation of personal data before it reaches a model, with configurable redaction policies per field.

Human approval workflows

High-impact actions — payments, refunds, contract sends, record deletion — route to a named approver instead of executing autonomously.

Monitoring & anomaly detection

Alerting on unusual tool usage, cost spikes, refusal rates and quality regressions.

Rate limiting & abuse control

Per-user and per-tenant throttles, spend caps and circuit breakers so a runaway loop cannot become a runaway invoice.

Secure deployment

Private networking, secrets in a managed vault, immutable builds, dependency scanning, and infrastructure as code.

On compliance: Ezulix designs compliance-ready architecture aligned to frameworks such as GDPR, HIPAA and SOC 2 control objectives. Certification status for any specific standard should be confirmed directly with our team before contract. [VERIFY: current Ezulix certifications]
Reference builds

The kind of systems we are asked to build

Representative scopes drawn from the categories Ezulix works in. Client names and outcome figures are withheld until verified.

Customer Support · SaaS

AI Customer Support Platform

Tier-1 ticket deflection using RAG over product documentation and past resolved tickets, with confidence-gated handoff to human agents and full conversation audit.

[CASE STUDY METRIC]Deflection rate
[PROJECT RESULT]First-response time
Revenue · B2B

AI Sales Agent

An agent that qualifies inbound leads against ICP criteria, enriches company data, writes a researched first-touch email and books directly into rep calendars.

[CASE STUDY METRIC]Speed to lead
[PROJECT RESULT]Meetings booked
Knowledge · Enterprise

Enterprise RAG Knowledge Assistant

Permission-aware assistant over SharePoint, Confluence and a contract repository, with hybrid retrieval, re-ranking and mandatory source citation on every answer.

[CASE STUDY METRIC]Search time saved
[PROJECT RESULT]Answer accuracy
Illustrative scopes. These are hypothetical/demo project shapes, not published client work. Metrics are placeholders — replace [CASE STUDY METRIC] and [PROJECT RESULT] with signed-off figures, and add [CLIENT NAME] only where you hold written permission.
FAQ

Questions enterprise buyers ask us first

What is RAG in plain terms?
Instead of hoping a language model remembers your information, you search your own documents for the relevant passages and hand them to the model along with the question. The model answers from what you gave it and cites which document it used. Your data stays in your systems, updates take effect immediately, and answers are verifiable.
RAG or fine-tuning?
RAG for knowledge, fine-tuning for behaviour. If the issue is that the model does not know your facts, retrieval solves it and stays current automatically. If the issue is that it will not follow your output format or domain conventions, fine-tuning may help. Most enterprise problems are knowledge problems.
How accurate is RAG?
Accuracy is dominated by retrieval quality, which depends on your document estate. Clean, current, well-structured documentation performs very well; a decade of overlapping drafts in a shared drive performs poorly until cleaned. We measure against a golden question set from real user queries during the proof of concept and give you a number for your data rather than a marketing figure.
How do you handle document permissions?
Permissions are inherited from the source system and applied as a filter at query time, per user. If someone cannot open a document in SharePoint, the assistant cannot retrieve or quote it for them. Permission changes take effect on the next query, not the next re-index.
What does RAG development cost?
A single-source RAG assistant typically starts around $12,000–$20,000. Enterprise deployments across multiple sources with permission mapping, hybrid search, re-ranking and evaluation infrastructure run $40,000 to $100,000+.
Project brief

Talk to an AI solution architect

No junior sales rep, no discovery deck. The person on the call is the person who will design the system.

  • Response within one business day
  • Mutual NDA signed before detailed discussion
  • Written scope, one price, one delivery date
  • You own all source code, models and IP at launch
Email: sales@ezulix.com [VERIFY]

We use these details only to prepare your scope and estimate. Your idea stays yours — mutual NDA before any detailed discussion.

Next step

Bring us the process that is costing you the most.

Book a 45-minute call with a solution architect. You leave with a use-case shortlist, a reference architecture sketch and a realistic build envelope — whether or not you build it with Ezulix.