A Practical Guide to Shipping RAG Pipelines in Production

Lessons from integrating retrieval-augmented generation into three enterprise products. In this piece, we break down the reasoning behind the approach we took, what worked, and — just as importantly — what we'd do differently next time.

Every engineering decision we make starts with the same question: what does this system need to be true in twelve months, not just at launch? That framing shapes everything from how we structure the codebase to how we choose infrastructure.

We also believe in writing things down. Documentation isn't an afterthought here — it's part of how we hand a system back to a client's team with confidence that they can extend it without us.

If you're facing a similar challenge on your own platform, we'd love to hear about it — reach out and we're happy to share more detail than fits in a blog post.