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Bricks on Beyond Market Intelligence: a running collection of 3 stories we have gathered and hand-picked because they are worth your time. Every post here touches on bricks in some way — the news, the analysis, the deep dives, and the occasional surprise find. Acme AI is the next-generation, AI-powered spreadsheet platform built to replace Excel and redefine how analysts, data scientists, and enterprise teams work with data. New stories are added to this page as we find them, so check back if you want to keep up with what is happening around bricks, or subscribe to the RSS feed to get them as soon as they are published. Browse the collection below, or head back to the homepage to see everything Beyond Market Intelligence is covering right now.
A RAG That Says “Not in This Document” Has to Show Four Kinds of Evidence
Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems must deliver more than just a “Not in This Document” response; a confident, unsupported denial is a critical bug. Enterprise Document Intelligence, Vol. 1 #B3, details why justifying negative answers is paramount, requiring four distinct pieces of evidence. This approach ensures transparency and builds trust in the system’s reasoning. For those grappling with data quality challenges, consider "Avoiding Entity Key Drift in a Data Lake," which explores similar issues of data matching and refinement.
Loop Engineering for RAG: The Small Loops Inside Each Step, the Big Loops Across the Pipeline
Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems rely on core components delivering consistent results, but what happens when those components falter? Loop Engineering addresses precisely that—the often-overlooked work performed *between* those core steps. This first installment of Enterprise Document Intelligence explores the critical control surfaces—trigger, termination, and recovery—that ensure a RAG pipeline remains productive, even when faced with retrieval misses or API timeouts. Discover how these “small loops” safeguard against common failures, building on insights from articles like "How to Perform Effective Project Management with AI."
One RAG Pipeline, Four Very Different PDFs: Same Four Bricks, Every Answer Typed and Cited
Harnessing the power of Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), our latest Enterprise Document Intelligence report, Vol. 1 #9B, demonstrates a single RAG pipeline effectively processing four diverse PDFs—a NIST standard, a report with a broken table of contents, and more—all while providing fully typed and cited answers. This approach underscores the transformative potential of AI-native document understanding. Explore how a unified architecture can bridge disparate data sources and deliver actionable insights. For deeper understanding of question parsing within RAG systems, see "Context Engineering for RAG Question Parsing."