Dictionary term
Agentic RAG
Agentic AIAdvanced
A RAG approach where an agent actively decides when and how to retrieve, choosing sources, issuing multiple searches, and refining queries instead of doing a single fixed lookup.
In plain English
Instead of one quick lookup, the AI decides what to search for, runs several searches, checks what it found, and searches again until it has enough to answer well.
Analogy
Like a researcher who keeps searching, re-reading, and following leads rather than grabbing the first page they find.
Why it matters
It produces more reliable answers over complex knowledge bases than a single-shot retrieval in an automation.
In practice
An agent that searches your CRM, realizes it needs billing data too, then runs a second targeted query before answering.
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