Interactive engineering artifact

Retrieval you can inspect—not a magic answer box.

A deterministic, browser-side lab for exploring query processing, TF-IDF ranking, thresholds, evidence selection, citations, and simple evaluation over sanitized portfolio data.

Transparent by design

This lab does not call an LLM or send data to a server. It demonstrates the retrieval and evidence layer using a small public dataset, so every score and citation remains visible.

Query console

Ask the portfolio evidence.

Runs locally
Try:
Retrieval controls
1Tokenize 2Score 3Filter 4Ground 5Evaluate
Grounded responseReady

Run the query to synthesize an answer from retrieved evidence.

Evaluation Not scored yet

Choose a sample question to compare retrieval against its expected evidence.

Ranked evidence

Why these chunks?

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Sanitized dataset

Eight chunks. Clear provenance.

The corpus is intentionally small enough to inspect. Production systems need the same traceability at a much larger scale.

Production extensions

What changes beyond the lab.

The transparent core remains, while enterprise requirements add identity, hybrid retrieval, reranking, evaluations, observability, and controlled generation.

Document-level ACLsHybrid searchCross-encoder rerankingPrompt versioningGolden datasetsTrace IDsCost budgetsFeedback loopsHuman escalation

Ready for the architecture behind the lab?

See the public-safe case study, system map, evaluation contract, and downloadable engineering artifacts.