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Feature

Retrieval-augmented generation you can inspect

Answer from the sources your organisation has approved, and let a reviewer see which passages the answer was built from instead of taking it on trust.

Updated 21 Aug 2026

Definition

Retrieval supplies source material to the generation step; citations and validation make parts of that process inspectable.

01

What the product supports

What a deployment actually offers depends on the release you are buying and how it is configured.

  • The mechanism is built
  • Availability varies by release
  • Scope varies by configuration
02

How to evaluate it

Use representative documents and record the expected result before running the test.

  • Retrieval relevance
  • Citation correctness
  • Citation completeness
  • Unsupported-answer behaviour
03

What procurement will ask for

Record enough for someone else to run it again: how it was set up, what kind of documents went in, who ran it, where the data went, what happened when it failed and who reviewed the result.

  • Configuration and source types
  • Users and data path
  • Failure behaviour and reviewer
  • Operational dependencies

What this page does not prove

  1. B1A mechanism that exists is not a guaranteed result.
  2. B2Configuration decides what is available, where data goes and who supports it.
  3. B3Regulated decisions remain with authorised people.

Test the claim on your documents

Pick a real piece of work, agree what a good answer looks like, then go through the results together.