Category: Enterprise RAG

Every enterprise RAG deployment faces the same critical question: How do you ensure your retrieval system respects user permissions without sacrificing performance at scale? The stakes couldn’t be higher. A financial services firm builds a sophisticated RAG system to synthesize market data, earnings reports, and regulatory filings. It works perfectly—until a junior analyst accidentally gets…

Last week, I watched a Fortune 500 CTO explain to his board why their $2.4 million RAG investment was delivering negative ROI. The culprit? Vector database costs that scaled “like a freight train hitting a brick wall.” His words, not mine. This isn’t an isolated incident. According to recent internal research, 72% of enterprise RAG…