Retrieval Finds Candidates. Reranking Finds the...

A hiring analogy that finally makes RAG Reranking click First, What Is RAG? Before we get into the analogy, let me give you a 30 second crash course on RAG because this is where reranking lives. RAG stands for Retrieval Augmented Generation. Here's the problem it solves: Large Language Models (LLMs) like GPT or Claude are incredibly powerful but they only know what they were trained on. They don't know about your company's internal documents, last week's product update, or your customer support