Why Your RAG System Gives Bad Answers

For builders and technical product managers diagnosing document-grounded answers, a single policy question exposes failures in chunking, retrieval, reranking, context construction and answering. Distinguish missing evidence from ignored evidence, then choose targeted fixes and checks.

3 sections ยท 6 lessons

Course outline

Evidence That Survives

  1. Keep the Exception Attached
  2. Retrieve the Right Policy

Evidence the Model Receives

  1. Rank Candidates, Not the Corpus
  2. Inspect the Actual Model Input

Answers You Can Defend

  1. Check Claims and Missing Conditions
  2. Choose the Fix Your Trace Supports

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