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The RAG stack that scales (ingest → embed → retrieve → rerank → generate)

Five-layer stack that actually works past 10M documents. Each layer picks the tool that dominates its slot.

Ships a production RAG pipeline in a week. Each tool handles one job.

  1. 1
    Unstructured.io

    Parse PDFs, HTML, Word, PowerPoint. Outputs clean JSON with element types (title, table, list-item).

  2. 2
    Voyage AI

    Embed chunks with voyage-3-large. 1024-dim vectors, best-in-class retrieval on English.

  3. 3
    Pinecone

    Store vectors in Pinecone serverless. Auto-scales; hybrid search built in.

  4. 4
    Cohere

    Rerank top 50 with Cohere Rerank 3. Boosts precision from 40% → 75% on hard queries.

  5. 5
    Claude

    Feed top 10 reranked results to Claude Sonnet 5 with citation instructions. Return grounded, cited answer.