# RAG

A technique for grounding that finds relevant text in your documents or data and adds it to the model's context, so the model writes its answer from that text without being changed.

Also called: Retrieval-augmented generation

The other half: Fine-tuning

Related: Knowledge cutoff, GEO (generative engine optimization)

Source: https://redfinchadvisory.com/lexicon/rag (version 1.0, changed 2026-10-21)