From knowledge to action
You have now covered the full stack of enterprise RAG: from the economics of self-hosting through embedding models, vector databases, document ingestion, chunking, retrieval, generation, deployment, tiered architecture, knowledge graphs, and security.
This capstone turns that knowledge into a concrete plan for your organisation. Each exercise produces a deliverable. Together, they form a one-page RAG transformation blueprint that you can present to your CTO, your board, or your procurement committee.
Work through these exercises with your actual numbers. Estimates are fine where you do not have exact figures -- the goal is a defensible order-of-magnitude plan, not a decimal-precise budget.
