📅 2025-05-20 — Session: Implemented RAGFlow trial paywall and tenant model

🕒 22:45–23:05
🏷️ Labels: RAG, Monetization, Architecture, Paywall, Stripe, Usertenant
📂 Project: Business
⭐ Priority: MEDIUM

Session Goal: The session aimed to refine and implement strategic architectural and monetization enhancements for the RAG system, focusing on retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and service architecture.

Key Activities:

  • Reviewed the complete RAG architecture, emphasizing SQL-based querying, monetization, and scalability.
  • Summarized insights and recommendations for improving RAG architecture, identifying redundancies and functionality enhancements.
  • Outlined strategic refinements for database and service architecture, focusing on user access, billing, and monetization.
  • Synthesized insights on system runtime, file handling, and user management, detailing tenant-user linkage and quota enforcement.
  • Developed strategic insights for enhancing the UserTenant model and implementing a paywall strategy, focusing on trial logic, Stripe integration, and monetization.
  • Created an implementation plan for a trial paywall wrapper on RAGFlow, detailing team roles, task breakdowns, and necessary code snippets.

Achievements:

  • Completed a comprehensive review of the RAG architecture and identified areas for improvement.
  • Developed a strategic plan for implementing a paywall and enhancing the UserTenant model.
  • Created a detailed implementation plan for integrating a trial-to-paid monetization layer into RAGFlow.

Pending Tasks:

  • Execute the implementation plan for the trial paywall and UserTenant model enhancements.
  • Monitor the integration of Stripe for payment processing and ensure seamless user transition from trial to paid services.