Tool Stack
RAG Starter Stack
Minimum viable stack to ship a production RAG chatbot.
Purpose
Ingest documents, embed, retrieve, and generate grounded answers.
Tools Included
- OpenAI / Lovable AI
- pgvector (Postgres)
- LangChain or LlamaIndex
- Next.js or TanStack Start
Workflow Supported
Alternatives
- Pinecone instead of pgvector
- Vercel AI SDK instead of LangChain
Use Cases
↳ connected nodes
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Build an Internal Knowledge Bot
Ship a Slack bot that answers questions from your company docs.
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AI Customer Onboarding Flow
Walk every new user through activation with an AI guide.
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SaaS Co. Cuts Support Tickets 40% With Internal Bot
A 50-person SaaS deployed a RAG bot over their help center and internal wiki.
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E-commerce Brand Automates 70% of Support Tickets
A DTC brand deployed a RAG support agent over policies, FAQs, and order data.
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RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation)
Inject external knowledge into an LLM at query time.
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Vector Database
A database optimized for similarity search over embeddings.
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RAG vs Fine-Tuning
When to retrieve, when to retrain.
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Chatbot vs AI Agent
Conversational interface vs autonomous executor.
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Grounded Answer Prompt
Force the model to answer only from provided sources, with citations.
Dictionary↳ linked
Semantic Search
Finding information by meaning rather than exact keyword match.
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RAG Content Ingestion Pipeline
Convert messy docs into searchable, cited knowledge chunks for AI systems.
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Vector Database vs Knowledge Graph
Similarity retrieval versus explicit relationship mapping.
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Support Team Replaces Wiki Sprawl With a Knowledge Graph
A support org connected policies, playbooks, tickets, and RAG answers into one system.
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Agentic RAG
RAG where an agent decides what to retrieve, when, and from which source — instead of a single static query.
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Embedding
A numerical vector representation of text, image or audio that captures meaning for similarity search.
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Fine-Tuning
Continuing to train a base model on your own examples to specialize its behavior.
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Context Window
The maximum amount of text (in tokens) an LLM can consider in a single call.
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Supabase vs Firebase
Open-source Postgres backend vs Google's managed app platform.