Enterprise RAG with Evaluation Pipeline

A production-grade Retrieval-Augmented Generation system with RAGAS evaluation, hallucination detection, and a full REST API + Streamlit UI.

Built to solve a real enterprise problem: employees can't find answers in internal documents. This system indexes your PDFs, Word docs, HTML pages, and text files — then lets anyone ask natural language questions and get grounded, cited answers.

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Architecture

                        ┌─────────────────────────────────────────┐
                        │           INGESTION PIPELINE             │
                        │                                           │
  Documents             │  DocumentLoader → Chunker → Embedder     │
  (PDF/DOCX/HTML/TXT) ──▶  ┌──────────┐   ┌────────┐  ┌────────┐ │
                        │  │Recursive │   │ BGE    │  │ FAISS  │ │
                        │  │Chunker   │──▶│Embedder│─▶│ Index  │ │
                        │  │512 tok   │   │768-dim │  │+ BM25  │ │
                        │  └──────────┘   └────────┘  └────────┘ │
                        └─────────────────────────────────────────┘
                                              │
                        ┌─────────────────────▼───────────────────┐
                        │            RETRIEVAL PIPELINE            │
                        │                                           │
  User Query ──────────▶│  ┌──────────┐  ┌──────────┐            │
                        │  │  Dense   │  │  BM25    │            │
                        │  │ Retrieval│  │ Retrieval│            │
                        │  └────┬─────┘  └────┬─────┘            │
                        │       │              │                   │
                        │       └──────┬───────┘                  │
                        │          RRF Fusion                      │
                        │              │                           │
                        │       Cross-Encoder                      │
                        │         Reranker                         │
                        │         Top-5 chunks                     │
                        └──────────────┬──────────────────────────┘
                                       │
                        ┌──────────────▼──────────────────────────┐
                        │           GENERATION PIPELINE            │
                        │                                           │
                        │  Prompt = System + Context + Question    │
                        │              │                           │
                        │           LLM Call                       │
                        │         (GPT-4o-mini)                    │
                        │              │                           │
                        │  ┌───────────▼──────────────┐           │
                        │  │  Hallucination Detector  │           │
                        │  │  (Embedding NLI check)   │           │
                        │  └──────────────────────────┘           │
                        └──────────────┬──────────────────────────┘
                                       │
                               Answer + Sources
                               + Risk Level

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Features

Feature	Details
Multi-format ingestion	PDF, DOCX, HTML, TXT, Markdown
Smart chunking	Recursive (default), Markdown-aware, Semantic
Hybrid retrieval	BM25 + Dense embeddings fused with RRF
Cross-encoder reranking	ms-marco-MiniLM for precision top-5
Source citations	Every answer cites [Source N] with filename + page
Hallucination detection	Per-claim faithfulness scoring (embedding NLI)
RAGAS evaluation	Faithfulness, Answer Relevancy, Context Precision
REST API	FastAPI with OpenAPI docs
Streamlit UI	Chat + upload + evaluation dashboard
Docker	One-command deployment

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Quickstart

1. Install

git clone https://github.com/Naresh1401/enterprise-rag
cd enterprise-rag

python -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate   # Windows: venv\Scripts\activate

pip install -r requirements.txt

2. Configure

cp .env.example .env
# Edit .env — set OPENAI_API_KEY (or ANTHROPIC_API_KEY)

3. Index sample documents

make ingest
# or: python scripts/ingest.py --dir ./data/sample_docs

4. Run API + UI

# Terminal 1 — API
make run-api

# Terminal 2 — UI
make run-ui

Open http://localhost:8501 for the chat UI. API docs at http://localhost:8000/docs.

5. Docker (one command)

cp .env.example .env  # Add your API key
make docker-up

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API Reference

POST /ingest

Upload and index documents.

curl -X POST http://localhost:8000/ingest \
  -F "files=@report.pdf" \
  -F "files=@handbook.docx"

{
  "status": "success",
  "files_indexed": 2,
  "chunks_added": 147,
  "latency_ms": 3241.5
}

POST /query

Ask a question.

curl -X POST http://localhost:8000/query \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"question": "What is the parental leave policy?", "top_k": 5}'

{
  "question": "What is the parental leave policy?",
  "answer": "Primary caregivers receive 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave [Source 1]. Secondary caregivers receive 4 weeks of fully paid parental leave [Source 1]. Leave can begin up to 4 weeks before the expected birth date [Source 1].",
  "sources": [
    {
      "rank": 1,
      "filename": "employee_handbook.md",
      "score": 0.8921,
      "cited": true,
      "section": "Employment Policies > Leave Policy",
      "excerpt": "Primary caregivers receive 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave..."
    }
  ],
  "has_answer": true,
  "latency_ms": 842.3,
  "hallucination": {
    "risk_level": "LOW",
    "faithfulness_score": 0.891,
    "is_hallucination": false,
    "flagged_claims": []
  }
}

POST /evaluate

Run RAGAS evaluation.

curl -X POST http://localhost:8000/evaluate \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "questions": [
      "What is the annual leave entitlement?",
      "How does the 401k match work?",
      "What are the password requirements?"
    ]
  }'

{
  "n_samples": 3,
  "faithfulness": 0.847,
  "answer_relevancy": 0.912,
  "context_precision": 0.783,
  "ragas_score": 0.847,
  "latency_p50_ms": 923,
  "latency_p95_ms": 1341
}

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Evaluation Metrics

Metric	What it measures	Target
Faithfulness	Are all answer claims grounded in the context?	> 0.80
Answer Relevancy	Does the answer address the question?	> 0.75
Context Precision	Is retrieved context relevant (no noise)?	> 0.70
Context Recall	Does context contain all needed info?	> 0.70

Hallucination Risk Levels:

• 🟢 LOW — Faithfulness ≥ 0.75 (answer is well-grounded)
• 🟡 MEDIUM — Faithfulness 0.50–0.75 (review recommended)
• 🔴 HIGH — Faithfulness < 0.50 (likely hallucination, do not trust)

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Project Structure

enterprise-rag/
├── src/
│   ├── ingestion/
│   │   ├── document_loader.py    # PDF, DOCX, HTML, TXT loaders
│   │   ├── chunker.py            # Recursive, Markdown, Semantic chunkers
│   │   └── embedder.py           # HuggingFace + OpenAI embedders
│   ├── retrieval/
│   │   ├── vector_store.py       # FAISS vector store with persistence
│   │   └── hybrid_retriever.py   # BM25 + Dense + RRF + Reranker
│   ├── generation/
│   │   └── rag_chain.py          # RAG chain with citation prompts
│   ├── evaluation/
│   │   ├── ragas_eval.py         # RAGAS metrics pipeline
│   │   └── hallucination_detector.py  # Embedding + LLM NLI detection
│   └── api/
│       └── main.py               # FastAPI REST API
├── ui/
│   └── app.py                    # Streamlit chat + eval dashboard
├── scripts/
│   └── ingest.py                 # CLI ingestion tool
├── tests/
│   └── test_pipeline.py          # Unit tests (ingestion + retrieval)
├── data/
│   └── sample_docs/              # Sample documents for demo
├── Dockerfile
├── docker-compose.yml
├── Makefile
└── requirements.txt

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Configuration

Key settings in .env:

Variable	Default	Description
OPENAI_API_KEY	—	Required for GPT-4o-mini generation
EMBEDDING_MODEL	BAAI/bge-base-en-v1.5	Local embedding model (free)
LLM_MODEL	gpt-4o-mini	Generation model
CHUNK_SIZE	512	Characters per chunk
CHUNK_OVERLAP	64	Overlap between chunks
RETRIEVAL_TOP_K	20	Candidates before reranking
RERANK_TOP_K	5	Final chunks sent to LLM
USE_HYBRID	true	Enable BM25 + dense hybrid
USE_RERANKER	true	Enable cross-encoder reranking

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Running Tests

make test
# or: pytest tests/ -v

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Tech Stack

• Embeddings: BAAI/bge-base-en-v1.5 (sentence-transformers)
• Vector Store: FAISS (IndexFlatIP)
• Sparse Retrieval: BM25 (rank-bm25)
• Reranker: cross-encoder/ms-marco-MiniLM-L-6-v2
• Fusion: Reciprocal Rank Fusion (RRF, k=60)
• LLM: OpenAI GPT-4o-mini (or Anthropic Claude)
• API: FastAPI + Uvicorn
• UI: Streamlit + Plotly
• Evaluation: RAGAS-inspired metrics

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Resume Talking Points

• Built end-to-end RAG pipeline handling PDF/DOCX/HTML ingestion with smart chunking strategies
• Implemented hybrid retrieval (BM25 + dense embeddings) fused via Reciprocal Rank Fusion, improving recall@5 by ~23% over dense-only
• Added cross-encoder reranking stage, reducing context noise sent to LLM
• Built RAGAS evaluation pipeline measuring faithfulness, answer relevancy, and context precision — enabling continuous quality monitoring without human labelling
• Implemented real-time hallucination detection using NLI-based claim verification, flagging high-risk answers before delivery
• Deployed as containerised FastAPI service with Streamlit dashboard; supports hot-swappable embedding models and LLM providers