So you wanna build a local RAG?

Local RAG systems can be built entirely with open-source components by replacing proprietary SaaS providers across all key layers: vector databases (Postgres+pgvector), embeddings models (Sentence Transformers), LLMs (Llama, Mistral), rerankers (BGE), and document parsing (Docling). Skald's implementation prioritizes self-hosted deployment for privacy-sensitive organizations that need frontier model capabilities without external data sharing, while acknowledging that performance optimization across these component choices requires ongoing benchmarking against proprietary alternatives.

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