Why I Built My Own RAG Platform (And Why You Shouldn't)

I’m sharing my learnings after spending 2.5 years working on AI for business knowledge retrieval and realizing that building a custom RAG pipeline is much harder than it looks.

In this video, I break down the 8 major challenges of building your own RAG system—from chunking strategies to citation management—and why I eventually decided to build a dedicated platform (Lookio.app) to solve them.

If you are trying to build “Chat with PDF” workflows in n8n, Make, or Zapier, you’ve probably hit walls with hallucinating bots or complex vector store setups. Here is why I built Lookio to fix that, offering a pay-as-you-go API that handles the heavy lifting so you don’t have to.