sprint2–4 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