Financial services
Series B fintech
In-house RAG prototype was returning 40% irrelevant results on regulatory documents. Compliance review was blocked.
Matched a senior retrieval engineer with regulated-industry evidence. Rebuilt retrieval with hybrid search and reranking, and shipped an eval harness against a 2,000-question golden set.
Retrieval precision @5 jumped from 58% to 94%. Cleared compliance review on first pass.
“We’d interviewed 14 engineers ourselves over a month. The first profile they sent was the hire.”