Tag: agentic-rag

Apr 28, 2026

Agentic RAG: what it actually costs versus what it actually delivers

A founder's CTO came back from a vendor pitch convinced agentic RAG was the next quarter's roadmap. Eighteen tools, multi-step reasoning, autonomous decisions. The bill the vendor implied was 5x their current model spend, the latency target was a real-time chat product, and nobody had asked what fraction of their queries actually needed an agent.