Ethan Barnes, Founder
October 23, 2024 |
5 min read
Connecting AI Models to your Business Data
Value
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Amplify your internal teams’ productivity with an AI
assistant that knows their data, processes, workflows,
inbox, etc.
- Automate back-office processing.
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Enable decision makers to retrieve the info & insights they
need immediately just by asking.
AI That Knows Your
- Company SOPS
- Team meetings
- Training materials
- Project documentation
- Quality standards
- Policies
- Contracts
How can organizations extend AI models or large language models
(LLMs) with their internal company data?
Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) is a concept in which
leading AI models are augmented with internal data relevant to a
specific use case. Take a scenario where you want to deploy an
AI assistant that understands all your business’s standard
operating procedures. Leading AI models have not been trained on
your company’s SOPs and would not be able to service your
internal team out of the box. RAG enables you to supplement an
AI model with your own data.
1. Training Data/Preparation
- Study your underlying data.
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Develop the appropriate orchestration and ingestion pipeline
to process your data.
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Create vector embeddings of your data (searchable indexes to
the respective data).
- Store vector embeddings in a vector database.
Retrieval
- User submits inquiry
- Create a vector embedding of the user inquiry
- Search vector database for related vectors
- Pass relevant context to an AI model (LLM)
- LLM responds back to user with appropriate context
To make a RAG-based system production ready, there is another
layer of advanced concepts that must be considered. To name a
few…
- Rerankers
- Advanced chunking strategies
- Vision model processing
- Prompt-restructuring
- LLM-routing
- Response moderation
- Custom tool calls (AI Agent Actions)
- Intent classifiers
Common Hurdles Faced
- Underlying training data
- Complex data types
- Advanced prompting requirements
- Dealing with structured vs unstructured data
- Circumventing hallucination
- Properly chunking different docs
If you want to:
- Avoid complex architectures for one-off projects
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Circumvent overhead over setup, maintenance, and support
- Accelerate beyond hurdles
- Improve existing RAG-based applications
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Expedite standing up production AI models connected to
enterprise data and workflows
If you want continuous insights into more advanced-RAG
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