The RAG Cookbook

Stop Your RAG from Hallucinating. Start Shipping Trusted AI Answers in Hours, Not Months.

The RAG Cookbook – a practical playbook used by AI leaders to cut hallucinations by 40%+, eliminate pilot-stage failures, and move production-grade Agentic RAG from PoC to production.

80% of enterprise AI projects fail to deliver business value – don't let your RAG be one of them

40%+ hallucination reduction achievable with a properly grounded RAG pipeline

95% faster AI-readiness and 80%cost savings vs. building RAG in-house with Progress Agentic RAG

Why this Cookbook matters right now

42% of companies scrapped most of their AI initiatives in 2025, up from 17% the year before – most because their RAG couldn’t scale past pilot
Average cost overrun for RAG projects at production scale is 380% versus pilot
Legal AI hallucination rates still hit 69%–88% on domain-specific questions without grounding

What's inside the Cookbook

Use the official Cookbook TOC verbatim as a 5-point visual checklist:

Fundamental RAG principles and how it bridges retrieval and generation
Key strategies to enrich context and enhance relevance of AI responses
Relevant metrics like relevance and grounded to evaluate your RAG pipeline
Advanced techniques: multi-step queries, data augmentation, metadata integration
Smart configuration of your RAG pipeline using Progress Agentic RAG

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