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Building ShiftGreenBot: a RAG Product Finder

A walkthrough of the chatbot I built for the marketplace: how it turns plain language into grounded product recommendations using Azure OpenAI, MongoDB vector search, and a RAG flow.

2026-08-20 · 11 min read

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