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RAG & Knowledge Retrieval with Supabase
RAG & Knowledge Retrieval built on Supabase, chosen where it genuinely fits, and swapped where it does not.
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Why Supabase for this
A RAG system that cannot cite its source is a liability. Every answer we ship points back to the page it came from, so a reader can verify in one click.
Supabase is strongest at production-grade auth and RLS without building them, on standard Postgres you can leave. For rag & knowledge retrieval that matters because the failure modes of this kind of system tend to cluster exactly there.
The honest trade-off: opinionated in ways that occasionally fight a complex custom auth model. We say that up front because a stack chosen for fashion rather than fit becomes someone's migration project two years later. Integration comes before intelligence. A model that cannot reach your systems of record is a demo with good manners.
You own the code, the models where they are open-weight, and the documentation to run it without us.
The honest assessment
- What it is
- Postgres with authentication, storage, realtime and row-level security wired in.
- Strongest at
- production-grade auth and RLS without building them, on standard Postgres you can leave
- Trade-off
- opinionated in ways that occasionally fight a complex custom auth model
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We are not a reseller for Supabase and hold no commission on this choice. Where a different option fits your workload better, the recommendation will say so. That is the entire value of asking us.
What is included
- Ingestion pipeline for your real document formats
- Chunking and embedding strategy tuned to your corpus
- Hybrid keyword plus vector retrieval with reranking
- Citations on every answer, traceable to the source page
- Permission-aware retrieval that respects existing access rules
- Retrieval quality benchmarked against a labelled question set
Questions
RAG or fine-tuning?
RAG for knowledge that changes and must be cited; fine-tuning for style, format and task behaviour. Most production systems use RAG for the facts and light fine-tuning or few-shot prompting for the form.
How accurate will it be?
We build a labelled question set from your domain and report retrieval precision and answer accuracy against it. That number is the deliverable. We do not ship a system whose quality nobody has measured.
Can it respect our existing permissions?
Yes. Retrieval is filtered by the user's actual entitlements, so the assistant can never surface a document the user could not already open.
Alternatives for rag & knowledge retrieval
Same capability, different stack. Each page states its own trade-off.
Building with Supabase?
Bring us the workload and we will tell you whether this is the right stack for it.
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