Financial ServicesLLM Application

Proprietary Risk Framework Assessment: RAG Over Fine-tuning

RAG POC ~$40K vs ~$300K fine-tuning path: same validated quality band, overnight framework updates.

Build cost
~$300K (fine-tuning)
~$40K (RAG POC)
Framework update time
2-3 weeks retraining
Overnight re-index
Output quality (validated set)
Baseline target
Within accepted tolerance

The Problem

A financial services firm was evaluating an ~$300K fine-tuning project to encode proprietary risk frameworks across multiple scoring dimensions.

The Solution

A short RAG POC over existing risk documentation that matched the proposed fine-tuned quality at a fraction of the cost, with daily re-index updates instead of retraining.

Business Impact

Budget that would have gone to fine-tuning funded a second use case. Risk frameworks update when policy changes: same week, not next quarter.

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Tech Stack

RAG pipelineClaude 3.5 SonnetPostgresLangChain

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