sprint24 weeks~2h mentor time

RAG Assistant over Private Docs

Build a retrieval-augmented assistant with an offline eval set — and prove the retrieval actually helps.

By DataWicket

pythonfastapiembeddings

The brief

Build a retrieval-augmented assistant with an offline eval set — and prove the retrieval actually helps. The brief is deliberately incomplete — you make and justify the tradeoffs.

Deliberately ambiguous — you make and justify the tradeoffs. Your work is checked against a held-out evaluation you can't see in advance.

Milestones & mentor checkpoints

1Ingestion & chunkingweek 1mentor review
2Retrieval & generationweek 2mentor review
3Evals & costweek 3mentor review

How you're graded

Model quality
40% weight
Engineering
30% weight
Analysis
30% weight