LAYER 4 · APPLIED AI · STAGE 4

Vector databases for FDEs

Quick answer

Stores that find similar items by meaning rather than keywords. They power retrieval over large document sets.

Practise it

  1. 1. Embed and query a few thousand chunks
  2. 2. Add metadata filters
  3. 3. Compare vector and keyword search on your data

Where it sits

Stage 4 of the roadmap: Applied AI. You can build an LLM feature on private data and prove it works.

Field problems

Answer HR policy questions with RAG over 400 PDFs [ MEDIUM ]

Portfolio projects

RAG across Drive, Slack and a wiki