Enterprise RAG reliability gaps highlighted by author

The author argues that enterprise retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems fail less due to model limitations and more because of four critical library gaps: missing access-aware permissions, stale indexes, a lack of continuous production evaluation, and the unmeasured costs and operational overhead of GraphRAG. To build reliable systems, the author recommends moving permissions into retrieval, tracking freshness with service-level objectives, implementing continuous evaluation, and pricing the retrieval funnel. Open article →