Production RAG Evaluation Checklist for Regulated Industries

Measure grounded accuracy with domain-specific datasets and track hallucination rate per persona. Require citations and source spans in every response.

Implement hybrid retrieval (dense + sparse) with rerankers. Log query → chunks → response for audit, and redact PII before embedding.

Guardrails: rate-limit by user/tenant, enforce policy filters on retrieval, and run preflight checks for stale indices. Monitor latency, cost, and answer validity via continuous evals.