Enterprise RAG

Build enterprise RAGon your data, in your environment.

We design enterprise RAG architecture for proprietary data, governed retrieval, and production-ready generative AI systems.Most enterprise RAG and generative AI systems work in demos. The ones that work in production are built on a different retrieval architecture. That is the difference we make.

RAG Tiers
The production gap

71% of organisations use generative AI. Production outcomes tell a different story.

71%

of organisations regularly use generative AI in at least one business function

30%

of generative AI projects will be abandoned after proof of concept by 2025

Adoption is not the problem. Production is.

Most generative AI systems fail when they move beyond demos because the model is not grounded in reliable enterprise context. Without strong retrieval, systems produce fluent answers that cannot be trusted.

Agentic systems amplify the risk. When an agent starts from incorrect context, every step in the chain compounds the error.

The organisations seeing real outcomes share one trait: they built the retrieval layer properly before building applications on top of it. The fix is not a better model. It is a properly designed retrieval architecture.

Executive case

The Executive Case for Production RAG

Go beyond impressive demos. A production RAG system delivers audited answers grounded in all your enterprise data—text, tables, and images—creating competitive advantage while reducing risk.

Verifiable Answers

Every answer cites its sources, satisfying legal and compliance teams and building user trust.

Data Sovereignty

Deploy on-prem, in a private cloud, or in your VPC. You own the keys and the controls.

Multi-Format Intelligence

Go beyond text. Analyze images, tables, and scans for fraud detection, signature verification, and more.

Domain-Specific Tuning

Fine-tuned retrievers, rerankers, and LLMs learn your jargon—off-the-shelf can't match it.
Why it gets hard

From Demo to Reality: Why Enterprise RAG is Hard

Naive RAG fails in production. Naive agentic AI fails faster. This is now an accepted fact across the industry. The question is not whether your current pipeline will hit limits — it is when, and whether your architecture can absorb it.

Messy, Multi-Format Data

Real content is full of duplicates, versions, tables, images, and scans.

Scale & Performance

Millions of docs + thousands of users require sharding, caching, and optimization.

Security & Permissions

Results must respect ACLs and entitlements at query time. No exceptions.

Deep Domain Adaptation

Retrievers, rerankers, and LLMs need tuning for your jargon and workflows.

Evaluation & Feedback

Measure groundedness, accuracy, latency, and user trust—continuously.

Lifecycle Management

Data refresh, model monitoring, and rollback plans are essential.
Maturity framework

The Path to Deep Research Readiness

Our Enterprise RAG Tiers Framework is your roadmap from foundational data cleanup to agentic, multi-format analysis—the capabilities required for true deep research.

01

Foundational

Unified, governed knowledge base with clean, structured data foundation.

The first step is getting your knowledge base into a shape where reliable retrieval is possible.

02

Enterprise-Grade

Total knowledge access across any format with scalable infrastructure.

This is where connectors, controls, security, and real operating constraints become part of the system.

03

Domain-Optimized

Systems that speak your language with specialized terminology and workflows.

The system starts adapting to your jargon, concepts, and domain-specific evaluation needs.

04

Deep Research

Agentic systems for multi-step analysis with autonomous reasoning capabilities.

This is where iterative retrieval, verification, and synthesis start compounding into real strategic value.

Applications

RAG in Action: Transforming Industries

We deliver RAG solutions that solve critical business problems across industries.

Pharma & Life Sciences

Pharma & Life Sciences

Clinical trial search, SOP Q&A, regulatory intelligence.
Legal & Compliance

Legal & Compliance

Clause search, case-law co-pilots, auditable risk assessments.
HR & Policy

HR & Policy Portals

Employee handbook Q&A, benefits comparison.
Customer Support

Customer Support

WhatsApp, web, or portal assistants grounded in your KB.
RFP & Bid Automation

RFP & Bid Automation

Search past bids, auto-draft responses with citations.
Internal Workplace Search

Workplace Search

Search across docs, wikis, tickets, and email archives.
Engine vs interface

The Engine, Not Just the Interface

A chatbot is the interface your user sees. RAG is the engine behind it—retrieving facts, generating accurate answers, and providing citations.

We build the mission-critical RAG engine first, then deliver it through the interfaces your users actually need.

Chat UI

Web app (Chatbot), Slack, or Microsoft Teams.

Intelligent Search

Synthesized answers with citations—not just ten blue links.

Embedded Co-pilot

Assistants inside portals, CRMs, and line-of-business apps.

Voice & Call Center Assist

Real-time retrieval for agents.

Compliance Architecture

Compliance is decided at the retrieval layer. Not the LLM layer.

Most enterprise AI projects treat GDPR, the EU AI Act, and data sovereignty as legal reviews that happen after the system is built. That is backwards.

Every compliance question your legal team will ask — what data was retrieved, from where, under what access controls, for which user, and why it was surfaced — is determined by how the retrieval system is designed. Searchplex builds Enterprise RAG systems where compliance is structural, auditable, and enforced in the architecture from the start.

Architecture Principle

The retrieval layer is where enterprise data is exposed, filtered, ranked, and returned. It is also where it can be controlled, audited, and protected. Building compliance in after the fact costs more, breaks more, and proves less than designing it into retrieval from day one.

NL-based · EU-jurisdiction firstSelf-hosted enterprise retrieval architecturesRetrieval audit trails by design
Deployment Architecture

Your infrastructure. Your terms.

Every retrieval system we build can be deployed against the model that fits your operational, compliance, and commercial requirements. We have run all four in production — including deployments inside client cloud accounts and sovereign deployments on European infrastructure.

Managed infrastructure

Managed infrastructure. Full retrieval power.

A managed retrieval platform handles cluster provisioning, scaling, upgrades, and operational monitoring. You get production-grade retrieval without the infrastructure overhead. Searchplex manages the retrieval architecture, schema design, and ranking logic while the platform handles the operational layer beneath it.

Who this is for

Teams who want to move fast without internal capacity to operate a distributed retrieval cluster. Typical for product companies and enterprise teams with constrained platform engineering resources where data residency is not a hard constraint.

Managed in your cloud account

Managed operations. Inside your environment.

A managed deployment can run entirely inside your own AWS, GCP, or Azure account. Your data never leaves your environment, but you still benefit from automated provisioning, upgrades, and monitoring.

This resolves the tension between operational simplicity and data residency. Searchplex designs the retrieval system. Your cloud account owns the infrastructure. No dedicated in-house retrieval operations capability required.

Who this is for

Regulated enterprise organisations — legal, financial services, healthcare — where data residency is a hard compliance requirement but internal platform engineering capacity for self-hosted operations is limited.

Self-hosted and sovereign

Your infrastructure. Your operations. Your jurisdiction.

The retrieval system runs on your own cloud account or on-premise hardware, with full operational ownership inside your team. Nothing transits external infrastructure at any point. For organisations with European-jurisdiction requirements, the same model can be deployed on OVHcloud.

This is the right path when operational sovereignty matters as much as data sovereignty, and when infrastructure independence is a hard requirement rather than a preference.

Who this is for

Large enterprise and public sector organisations with mature internal infrastructure teams who require complete operational sovereignty alongside data sovereignty, including teams that need European-jurisdiction infrastructure.

Hybrid

Sensitive data in. Everything else out.

A managed-in-account or self-hosted cluster for regulated content can sit alongside a managed platform for non-regulated workloads. Two data planes, unified retrieval logic, one interface. More operationally complex — but often the only architecture that satisfies compliance requirements and engineering velocity simultaneously when document classification is mixed.

Who this is for

Enterprise organisations operating across jurisdictions or teams with mixed data classification — regulated content sitting alongside general knowledge bases where different residency requirements apply to different corpora.

All four deployment models in production · Customer-controlled retrieval architectures · European-jurisdiction deployments available
From RAG to agent-driven workflows

The same retrieval layer powers both.

RAG systems and agent-driven workflows are built on the same foundation: retrieving the right information, grounding outputs, and enforcing access correctly. As teams move toward agents, the demands on retrieval increase — not decrease.

FAQ

Your Questions, Answered

Case studies

Enterprise RAG Case Studies

See how Searchplex applies retrieval architecture in production for hybrid AI search systems and enterprise modernization work.

Legal Technology

CuratedAI: from semantic-only search to hybrid multilingual legal retrieval

Searchplex helped CuratedAI move from vector-only search to a hybrid retrieval architecture on Vespa, supporting multilingual legal research, stronger grounding, and sovereignty-aligned European deployment.
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Ready to build a Deep Research engine your business can trust?

Searchplex helps teams move from promising RAG experiments to production retrieval systems with stronger grounding, clearer evaluation, and a deployment path that fits the business.

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