RAG Development · Derby
RAG Development in Derby
Retrieval-augmented generation for Derby organisations — answering questions from your own documents rather than from a model's general training. RAG is the right default for most business AI, and the part that determines whether it works is retrieval quality, not the model sitting behind it.
Why this comes up
The problem
The answers people need are in documents nobody can find. A general AI tool answers confidently from training data instead, which is worse than not answering at all.
What you get
What we deliver
- Documents ingested from where they actually live — SharePoint, Drive, a shared folder
- Chunking tuned to your content, since the default settings suit nobody in particular
- Retrieval evaluated on its own, before any answer generation is involved
- Answers with citations back to the source passage, so people can verify
- Permission filtering, so retrieval respects who is allowed to see what
- Logging of questions and retrieved passages, which is how quality improves
Want this scoped for your business in Derby?
Thirty minutes, no charge, no sales script. You leave with a written summary of what rag development would actually involve — whether or not you use us.
Working in Derby
East Midlands
Derby is an engineering city — aerospace, rail and automotive supply chains — so the work here skews toward integration with existing plant systems, quality and compliance workflows, and reporting that has to stand up to audit.
Most work here involves connecting shop-floor and plant systems to reporting the rest of the business can actually read, plus quality and compliance workflows that have to survive an audit.
Sectors we work with in Derby
- Advanced Manufacturing
- Aerospace
- Rail Engineering
- Automotive
- Logistics
What we work with
Technologies and platforms
- Anthropic Claude
- OpenAI
- pgvector
- Python
- TypeScript
Who we work with
Industries we serve
- Professional services
- Legal
- Healthcare
- Manufacturing
- Education
Why us
Why Derby businesses choose Asionis
- Projects typically launched within 4–8 weeks
- No long-term contracts required
- All team members UK-based
- Dedicated account manager and development team
- Transparent reporting with monthly performance metrics
- Scalable from startup to enterprise
How we work
- Step 1
Free consultation
A 30-minute call to understand the problem. You keep the written summary either way.
- Step 2
Proposal
Scope, timeline and a fixed price, in writing, before anything starts.
- Step 3
Build
Short cycles with regular check-ins, so you see progress rather than hear about it.
- Step 4
Launch and support
We handle the go-live and stay available afterwards.
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RAG Development in Derby — common questions
- Why do RAG systems give poor answers?
- Almost always retrieval, not the model. If the right passage was never fetched, no model can answer from it. Measuring retrieval separately — does the correct chunk appear in the top results — finds the problem far faster than changing prompts.
- How should documents be split?
- It depends on their shape. Contracts, manuals and email threads all behave differently, and fixed-size splitting cuts through the exact sentence that mattered. Chunking sounds like a detail and is one of the highest-leverage decisions in the build.
- Can it respect our permissions?
- Yes, and it must — retrieval should filter to what the person asking is entitled to see, at query time. A RAG system built without this becomes a very effective tool for reading documents you were not meant to read.
- Is RAG better than fine-tuning for company knowledge?
- For facts, yes, and it is not close. Updating a document is instant; retraining a model is not. Fine-tuning shapes how a model responds, retrieval determines what it knows — and company knowledge is a knowing problem.
- Do you work with businesses across Derbyshire?
- Yes. We are based in Leicester, United Kingdom and work with clients throughout East Midlands, including Derby and the surrounding Derbyshire area. Most collaboration happens remotely, and we travel for kick-offs and key milestones.
- What kind of Derby businesses do you usually work with?
- Most work here involves connecting shop-floor and plant systems to reporting the rest of the business can actually read, plus quality and compliance workflows that have to survive an audit. Beyond that we work across Advanced Manufacturing, Aerospace, Rail Engineering, Automotive and Logistics.
- Do you cover the areas around Derby?
- Yes — we work throughout East Midlands, including Nottingham, Leicester, Loughborough, Birmingham. Derby is an urban area of roughly 260,000+, and we take on work across the wider Derbyshire region rather than the city boundary alone.
Talk to us about RAG Development in Derby
A 30-minute call with someone who would actually work on it. No sales script, no obligation.
- Projects typically launched within 4–8 weeks
- No long-term contracts required
- All team members UK-based
- Dedicated account manager and development team
- Transparent reporting with monthly performance metrics
- Scalable from startup to enterprise