Shipping a grounded RAG assistant in two weeks
A field report on scoping, retrieval quality, and the evals that let us put a retrieval-grounded assistant in front of real users — fast.
Nabeel GhafoorApril 22, 2026
Field notes from shipping production AI — what works, what breaks, and what we'd do differently. Practical writing from the senior engineers doing the work, on getting AI out of the pilot stage and into systems you can trust.
A field report on scoping, retrieval quality, and the evals that let us put a retrieval-grounded assistant in front of real users — fast.