Phase 21 · Build AI Engineer Portfolio Projects
ProjectsRAG Chatbot with a Custom Knowledge Base
Part of the AI Engineer Roadmap.
Summary
A production-quality RAG system over a real document set — the single most commonly requested AI engineer portfolio piece because it maps directly to real hiring needs.
How to Learn This
- 1Use a genuinely useful knowledge base (docs, a book, a company's public content).
- 2Add source citations and a clear 'I don't know' fallback for unanswerable questions.
- 3Include a short write-up of your chunking, retrieval and evaluation choices.
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