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Phase 1 · Building with LLMs · Quality & production

Capstone: research agent

A marketing research agent with retrieval, tools and evals.

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Why it matters

This is Phase 1 in one program. The marketing team asks questions that need both your documents and your data: "Which active campaign has the best ROAS?", "Can we call the new fleece eco-friendly?" A useful assistant has to look things up rather than guess, cite where each fact came from, stay inside limits, and prove it works on more than the one question you tried. Every piece is something you've already built; the work is putting them together and measuring the result.

What you'll be able to do

  • Combine retrieval, tools and an agent loop into one assistant
  • Make every claim traceable to a source the agent actually looked at
  • Grade the agent automatically with code checks on a small eval set
  • Decide what to improve next from the eval's failures

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