How I Sold a RAG Agent for $4,500

A university client came to me with a challenge:

They needed a Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) solution for their internal learning management system.

But there was a catch —

• No API keys.
• No subscriptions.
• No cloud costs.

Everything had to run locally on their own GPU infrastructure.

They wanted a chatbot like NotebookLM where students could:

• 📘 Select specific documents
• 💬 Chat with those documents
• 🧠 Generate quizzes automatically

And it all had to work offline — no OpenAI API, no hidden bills.

That’s when the real R&D started.

Could we vectorize each document individually and make them selectable later?
Or were we stuck building one massive global database?

After experimenting, I found the solution:

We could embed each document separately, giving students full control over which sources they wanted to interact with.

The final system?

A containerized chatbot that integrated directly into their LMS — giving them NotebookLM-level functionality, without ever touching the cloud.

💰 Total project value: $4,500.

⚙️ Total dependencies: all open-source and GPU-local.

And this is exactly what automation can do for your business — solve real problems with real ROI.

Because once you can build systems like this, clients stop seeing you as “just a freelancer.”

You become their AI consultant — someone who saves them time, cost, and complexity.

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