Lesson 1: Getting the help centre in, cleanly
20 min read·13 Oct 2026
Module 8 · Lesson 1 · About 40 minutes · Needs: Module 4 (what an embedding is), Module 5 (keyword search over the help centre)
The situation
In Module 5 you searched BrightCart's twelve help-centre articles as a tidy Python list. Then Priya sends the real export: the returns pages are Markdown, delivery is a web page, payments a Word file and the warranty guide a PDF.
Before the assistant can answer from them, someone has to get the words out, cut them into pieces a search can return, and label each piece so an answer can cite it. That work is ingestion. Every RAG system (retrieval-augmented generation: search first, then answer from what was found) rests on it.