Customer support · Production

Using Agentic RAG to Transform Retail Ecommerce with MongoDB Atlas and Dataworkz

The problem

Retailers struggle to deliver personalized, contextually accurate customer experiences because operational data is siloed from unstructured information spread across object stores, internal wikis, and documents, making critical information hard to surface at scale.

First attempt

Traditional RAG relying solely on vector search is described as insufficient because it lacks real-time operational data context needed to answer customer inquiries accurately.

Workflow diagram · grounded in source
1
Customer submits query
trigger
“When a customer asks a chatbot, "Where's my order?"”
2
Agentic query routing
routing
“capable of understanding a user inquiry and translating it to determine which path to use and which repositories to access to answer the question”
3
Real-time data retrieval
integration
“Dataworkz dynamically retrieves real-time data from MongoDB Atlas”
4
Agentic RAG pipeline execution
ai_action
“Retailers can build agentic workflows powered by RAG pipelines that combine lexical and semantic search with knowledge graphs to fetch the most relevant data from unstructured operational and analytical data sources”
5
Personalized response generation
output
“retrieve and create personalized, context-aware responses in real time”
Reported outcome

The agentic RAG architecture improves engagement, optimizes inventory, and provides scalable AI capabilities, making e-commerce personalization and responsiveness smarter and easier to scale.

Reported metrics
Customer engagementimproves engagement
Inventory optimizationoptimizes inventory
Reported stack
MongoDB AtlasDataworkzMongoDB Atlas Vector SearchAmazon S3SharePoint
Source
https://www.mongodb.com/blog/post/using-agentic-rag-transform-retail-mongodb
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Frequently asked questions

What did this team achieve with this AI workflow?

The agentic RAG architecture improves engagement, optimizes inventory, and provides scalable AI capabilities, making e-commerce personalization and responsiveness smarter and easier to scale.

What tools did this team use?

MongoDB Atlas, Dataworkz, MongoDB Atlas Vector Search, Amazon S3, SharePoint.

What results were reported?

Customer engagement: improves engagement; Inventory optimization: optimizes inventory (source-reported, not independently verified).

What failed first in this deployment?

Traditional RAG relying solely on vector search is described as insufficient because it lacks real-time operational data context needed to answer customer inquiries accurately.

How is this customer support AI workflow structured?

Customer submits query → Agentic query routing → Real-time data retrieval → Agentic RAG pipeline execution → Personalized response generation.