# Abstract (Working Draft)

## Version 1 (250 words)

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems have become essential for grounding LLM outputs in factual content. However, production deployments face seven critical fallacies that current frameworks fail to address: (1) the Flat Chunk Fallacy, treating all content equally regardless of structural importance; (2) Context Amnesia, losing metadata when chunks are extracted; (3) Time-Blind Retrieval, ignoring content freshness; (4) Flat Context, lacking priority tiers for different context types; (5) Official Truth Fallacy, favoring documentation over practical knowledge; (6) Brutal Squeeze, using lossy summarization instead of precision truncation; and (7) the Middleware Gap, trusting third-party routers with sensitive data.

We present **Context-as-a-Service (CaaS)**, an open-source framework that systematically addresses these challenges through five novel components: (a) **Structure-Aware Indexing** with three-tier value hierarchies; (b) **Context Triad** for Hot/Warm/Cold intimacy-based prioritization; (c) **Pragmatic Truth** tracking that surfaces practical knowledge alongside official sources; (d) **Heuristic Router** for zero-latency deterministic query routing; and (e) **Trust Gateway** for enterprise-grade on-premises deployment.

We evaluate CaaS on a new benchmark corpus of 16 enterprise documents spanning code, legal, HR, and engineering domains. Our experiments demonstrate **28.1% improvement in Precision@5** and **27.9% improvement in NDCG@10** over flat-chunk baselines, with sub-millisecond routing latency (0.003ms) and only 18.4% latency overhead for the full pipeline. CaaS is available as an open-source Python package with MIT license, Docker support, and a public Hugging Face dataset for reproducibility.

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## Key Claims (✅ Supported by Data)

1. **Seven Fallacies** - Need literature/examples backing each one
2. **✅ 28.1% Precision@5 improvement** - Benchmarked on 16-doc corpus
3. **✅ 0.003ms routing latency** - Heuristic router measured
4. **Enterprise compatibility** - Document Trust Gateway security properties

## Notes

- Target: 250 words (NeurIPS limit)
- Current: ~250 words
- Need: Concrete numbers from experiments
