07 — RAG in Regulated Enterprises

Status: Outline. This module now has its full scaffold in place; fill the body pages during the scheduled prep week.

What is in this module

Notes

• Hybrid Retrieval Patterns
• Embedding Strategies and Residency
• Chunking and Citation Fidelity
• RAG Security Boundaries
• Hallucination Control via Retrieval Design

Drills

• RAG vs Fine Tune vs Long Context
• Whiteboard RAG with RBAC
• Faithfulness Eval Design

Case Study

• BFSI RAG Meta Pattern

System Designs

• BFSI Internal SOP Search
• BFSI Compliance Document Review RAG

Strong-Hire bar

• You can explain the module in customer language, not only implementation language.
• You can defend trade-offs, failure modes, evals, and governance choices under skeptical questioning.
• You can connect the module back to the running BFSI customer and the Apic Applied AI Architect role.