RAG · RETRIEVAL
RAG is not a chatbot with attached PDFs
A defensible RAG system separates the knowledge corpus, search, context assembly, synthesis and source binding.

01 · RETRIEVEWere the professionally correct and permitted passages found?
02 · ASSEMBLEAre relations, version, permissions and context budget preserved?
03 · GROUNDDoes every material claim have a verifiable supporting location?
CORE METHOD
INGEST → RETRIEVE → ASSEMBLE → SYNTHESIZE → CITE → EVALUATE
A PDF attachment becomes a defensible RAG pipeline only through controlled selection, source binding and separate evaluation.
Take a document-based answer. Mark separately what was retrieved, assembled into context, synthesised and actually supported by a source.