Question

A startup builds an internal HR assistant that answers questions from a policy handbook that is revised every quarter. Employees ask fewer than 100 questions per day. The team wants the lowest total cost of ownership while keeping answers accurate after each handbook revision. Which approach best meets these design considerations?

Accepted Answer

Use Retrieval Augmented Generation with the handbook stored in a knowledge base, updating the indexed documents when the handbook changes.

Answer

Fine-tune a foundation model on the handbook and re-run a full fine-tuning job every time the handbook is revised.

Answer

Continue pre-training a large foundation model from scratch using the handbook plus general web data each quarter.

Answer

Embed the entire handbook into every prompt as static context regardless of the question being asked.