Private RAG

Search your documents without casually exporting the source material.

Retrieval-augmented generation finds relevant passages and supplies them to a model. A private RAG design controls where documents are parsed, embedded, indexed, retrieved, and finally sent for generation.

Plan a private knowledge pilot

Map every data hop

A local vector index is only one part of the system. Embedding generation and final inference also receive document content. Choose local or approved customer-controlled services for each step when source material must remain inside the environment.

Permissions still matter

Retrieval should preserve the access boundary of the source. A shared index without document-level authorization can expose material even when the model itself runs locally. Define source ownership, synchronization, deletion, and reindexing before production use.

Test the lifecycle

A useful pilot covers ingestion, indexing, retrieval quality, source updates, deletion, interrupted-worker recovery, backup, and restore. It should also verify that logs and metrics contain operational metadata rather than document text or prompts.