CHECKLIST

Enterprise RAG Implementation Checklist

Use this checklist to de-risk your RAG rollout from data preparation to production monitoring.

1) Data readiness

  • Identify source systems and data owners
  • Validate document quality and freshness
  • Define update cadence and ingestion strategy
  • Classify sensitive data and access rules

2) Retrieval quality

  • Choose chunking strategy by content type
  • Set baseline retrieval benchmarks
  • Implement reranking where needed
  • Track citation coverage and relevance

3) Security & governance

  • Apply role-based retrieval access
  • Enable audit logs for user queries
  • Define retention and data handling policy
  • Review compliance requirements early

4) Production rollout

  • Run pilot with measurable success metrics
  • Monitor latency, cost, and quality KPIs
  • Set fallback behavior for low-confidence answers
  • Create iteration loop from user feedback
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