LLMs ≠ Search Retrieval quality determines AI responses
22 January 2026
Retrieval will 𝗺𝗮𝗸𝗲 𝗼𝗿 𝗯𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗸 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗔𝗜. LLMs aren’t search engines, so they can only be as good as the information you feed them.
Most of the issues people blame on prompts are actually 𝗿𝗲𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘃𝗮𝗹 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗯𝗹𝗲𝗺𝘀. If your chatbot or agent is going off piste, it’s usually because it wasn’t provided with the right context in the first place.
This matters even more in financial research, where recency, nuance and source-specific insight are everything. An LLM can’t surface the latest analysis unless the retrieval layer is 𝗮𝗰𝗰𝘂𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲, 𝘂𝗽-𝘁𝗼-𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗲𝘅𝘁-𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗵.
We work with investment research and AI teams to strengthen their retrieval layers so AI responses become 𝗴𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗱, 𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲𝗹𝘆, 𝗮𝘂𝗱𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗿𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗱.
𝗢𝘂𝗿 𝗙𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗦𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗔𝗜 𝘀𝗼𝗹𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝘀 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗻 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗶𝘀 𝘂𝘀𝗲𝗱 𝗱𝗮𝗶𝗹𝘆.
If you’re curious how we approach the problem (and why it works), we’d be happy to walk you through it.