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Build multimodal RAG over 10,000 PowerPoint decks that answers chart queries and cites the exact slide.

Slides are the worst RAG corpus: text in shapes, meaning in charts, the message in the image. A query like 'the blue bar chart with Q3 revenue' fails if you embed only the extracted text, and citing the wrong slide number kills trust instantly.

Updated Aug 2026 · Grounded in real Forward Deployed Engineer interview loops and written to a senior-engineer editorial bar.

Slides are the worst RAG corpus: text in shapes, meaning in charts, the message in the image. A query like 'the blue bar chart with Q3 revenue' fails if you embed only the extracted text, and citing the wrong slide number kills trust instantly.

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