Instruction: Describe how you would design a retrieval assistant in a regulated environment.
Context: Assesses whether the candidate can design a practical architecture and explain the main tradeoffs. Describe how you would design a retrieval assistant in a regulated environment.
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The way I'd approach it in an interview is this: For regulated content, I would design the system to earn the right to answer. That means a tightly controlled corpus, strong versioning, explicit permission rules, and an evidence threshold high enough that unsupported answers are blocked rather than softened.
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