The 30-Day Roadmap to Building a Production RAG System (That Doesn’t Hallucinate)

RAG is the most practical AI pattern for most businesses. Most implementations are broken in ways teams don’t discover until users find them. There’s a that plays out in conference rooms and investor decks with remarkable consistency. Someone builds a chatbot. They load their company’s documentation into a vector database, hook it up to an LLM, ask it a few questions in front of an audience, and it gives back impressive, accurate, fluent answers. Everyone nods. Someone says “this is exactly what we need.” Then it goes to users.