RAG is one component of enterprise knowledge architecture — not the strategy itself.
Constraints we design around from the start.
The layer that makes retrieval trustworthy enough for production.
Search and retrieval scoped to what the requesting user or agent is actually allowed to see.
Every answer traceable back to the specific document or record it came from.
Indexing pipelines that keep retrieval current as source documents change.
Structured ingestion from the systems your knowledge actually lives in.
Retrieval permissions that mirror your existing document and system access rules.
Ongoing measurement of retrieval accuracy and answer quality.
Search across your own knowledge base, not just a chatbot wrapper.
The same permission-aware retrieval layer, available to agents as well as people.
No. A vector database is one component. Enterprise RAG also needs permissions, attribution, freshness, and evaluation to be trustworthy in production.
Yes — retrieval is scoped to match your existing access control rules, not a separate parallel permission system.
Agents use the same permission-aware retrieval layer — scoped to what that specific agent or workflow is allowed to see.