Brick
Brick at Beyond Market Intelligence is a file of 3 stories. The newest of them: “Design Your Data: Why a Simple FAQ Can Outperform RAG”, “Seven patterns to turn RAG extraction errors into honest answers”, and “Better retrieval means less hallucination: the foundation of trustworthy AI”. Most RAG setups fight messy documents. Calling a RAG mistake a "hallucination" misses what actually happened. Acme AI is the next-generation, AI-powered spreadsheet platform built to replace Excel and redefine how analysts, data scientists, and enterprise teams work… The list below is every Brick story on Beyond Market Intelligence, newest first.
Design Your Data: Why a Simple FAQ Can Outperform RAG
Most RAG setups fight messy documents. This piece flips that struggle into a design choice. A well-structured FAQ inverts the pipeline: parsing becomes trivial, retrieval acts as a cache, and few-shot prompting turns into a retrieval problem. It's a clever reframing that rewards intentionality. If you're tired of wrestling with chaotic corpora, this perspective offers a practical path forward. For a deeper look at how LLMs handle structure, our piece on paragraph navigation in token space pairs well with this.
Seven patterns to turn RAG extraction errors into honest answers
Calling a RAG mistake a "hallucination" misses what actually happened. If the model read the context and still got it wrong, that's an extraction error, not a creative invention. The piece breaks down seven typed-contract patterns that keep generation honest, plus a decomposition rule for smaller models. It's a sharper way to diagnose failures, and we're glad to see the framing. For a deeper look at how structure shapes model reasoning, "Exploring Paragraph Structure: How LLMs Navigate Token Space" pairs well with this analysis.
Better retrieval means less hallucination: the foundation of trustworthy AI
If a model is inventing answers, the problem often isn't the model. It's the retrieval brick feeding it scraps. When the right context never surfaces, the model fills the gaps with plausible fiction. That's why fixing retrieval matters more than tweaking prompts. Garbage in, garbage out applies here with precision. We respect the logic: give the model nothing to invent, and hallucinations lose their fuel.