How to Build a RAG Chatbot Without Coding (AI PM Series)

Learn about RAG, develop a better AI product intuition, and build an AI-powered chatbot for your PM portfolio. A step-by-step guide with ready-to-use templates.

Hey, Paweł here. Welcome to the premium edition of the Product Compass Newsletter with a free part republished on Medium. The original post.

RAG (retrieval-augmented generation) is a critical concept that every Product Manager working with AI must understand.

But it might be challenging to start without a CS degree.

After 2 weeks of research, I recommend the simplest no-code approach.

That might be the only tutorial to do it without coding or installing anything locally.

My goal is to help you:

• Learn by doing rather than studying theory.
• Develop a better intuition for managing AI products.
• Build an app for your PM portfolio.

In today’s issue, we discuss:

1. What is RAG and Why We Need It
2. 🔒 How to Build an AI-Powered RAG Chatbot Step-by-Step

1. What is RAG and Why We Need It

Let’s start with a demonstration of what we will build. Below is a chatbot that provides answers based on files in my Google Drive…