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Optimized Enterprise RAG — Final Architecture

All optimizations working together.

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This is the final architecture of an optimized enterprise RAG system, combining all the optimizations — hybrid search, reranking, context pruning, semantic and prompt caching — into one fast, cost-efficient, accurate pipeline.

In simple terms

All RAG optimizations combined into one production architecture.

How it works

  1. 1Data sources (Confluence, SharePoint, Drive, Jira, Slack, PDFs, email, CRM) feed an ingestion pipeline.
  2. 2The pipeline chunks, embeds and enriches with metadata.
  3. 3Retrieval & generation: query understanding → metadata filter → hybrid search → merge/dedup → rerank → context pruning.
  4. 4Semantic cache and prompt cache short-circuit repeated queries.
  5. 5The LLM generates a grounded, cited answer; tools are called as needed.

Key points

  • Combines hybrid search, reranking, pruning, semantic cache and prompt cache.
  • Typical improvement: ~80% faster, ~95% fewer chunks, ~75% lower cost, higher accuracy.
  • Permission-aware and secure, scalable to millions of documents.
  • Observability and evaluation run across the pipeline.

Why it matters

Seeing all optimizations together shows how a production RAG system becomes fast, cheap and accurate — the payoff of applying each technique in sequence.

Frequently asked questions

What do the optimizations achieve together?
Big gains: far fewer chunks to the LLM, much lower latency and cost, and higher accuracy.
What are the two cache layers?
A semantic cache (similar questions) and a prompt cache (exact/near-exact prompts).

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RAG Optimization 3 · Context Pruning

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