Financial AI needs document-specific retrieval, not just chatbots, to ensure accuracy.

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The Vicquant financial app's AI never performs calculations itself, only explaining results generated by deterministic code. However, to prevent inaccurate answers about user documents, it requires a specialized RAG Vault for retrieval. Standard text-splitting methods fail on financial documents containing tables, necessitating layout-aware parsing. The system uses hierarchical chunking and hybrid search techniques to precisely find and provide relevant context for accurate responses.

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