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RAG & Knowledge Base Development

Retrieval systems that answer from your documents and cite them, instead of inventing a confident paragraph.

Starting at
$3,400
Typical delivery
3–8 weeks
Engagement
Fixed scope
Code ownership
Yours

Retrieval quality decides answer quality, and most RAG projects fail at chunking and ranking rather than at the model. We spend the effort where it pays: document parsing, chunk boundaries, hybrid search and reranking.

Every answer carries citations back to the source passage, so a reviewer can verify it in one click — the difference between a system people trust and one they quietly stop using.

What you get

  • Ingestion for PDF, Office, HTML, Confluence and ticket exports
  • Hybrid keyword plus vector search with reranking
  • Citations to the exact source passage on every answer
  • Permission-aware retrieval: users only see what they may see
  • Answer quality measured against a labelled question set

Who this is for

Organisations whose knowledge is spread across thousands of unsearchable documents.

Tools and technologies

pgvector Elasticsearch Claude Python Unstructured

How it runs

  1. Scoping call

    45 minutes with the engineer who would do the work, within one business day of your enquiry.

  2. Written proposal

    Scope, price, timeline and exclusions in writing. No invoice until you approve it.

  3. Weekly delivery

    Staging URL from week one, in your repository and your cloud account.

  4. Handover

    Documentation, walkthrough and 30 days of post-launch bug fixing included.

RAG & Knowledge Base Development — questions we get asked

How much does rAG & Knowledge Base Development cost?
RAG & Knowledge Base Development starts at $3,400 for a typical engagement. The final price depends on scope, existing code and integrations — send the brief through the form and you get a fixed-scope quote, usually within one business day.
How long does it take?
A typical rAG & Knowledge Base Development engagement runs 3–8 weeks from signed scope to delivery, with something running on a staging URL from the first week.
Who owns the code?
You do. The repository, deployment pipeline and hosting accounts are yours from day one, and intellectual property transfers on final payment. There is no platform to stay locked into.
What do I get?
Every engagement includes: Ingestion for PDF, Office, HTML, Confluence and ticket exports; Hybrid keyword plus vector search with reranking; Citations to the exact source passage on every answer.
How do we start?
Send the enquiry form on this page or email bilgisam@gmail.com with a short description of the problem. You get a reply within one business day, a free scoping call, and a written proposal before any invoice.

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