10 RAG Architecture Mistakes Fintechs Make in Their First Production Deployment

This article was originally published on JustSoftLab Insights . We've shipped RAG systems for regulated fintech clients across the past two years — fraud detection augmentation, compliance documentation Q&A, regulatory filing analysis, internal policy assistants. Across those engagements one pattern keeps repeating: the same ten architecture mistakes show up in roughly 9 out of 10 first production deployments, and they show up in a predictable order. This isn't a list of bad models or weak e