Author name: Barnali Patnaik

Barnali Patnaik is a Senior Product Manager at Salesforce. She is part of the Product Management team on Data Cloud, and specialises in evaluation of Retrieval Augmentation Generation (RAG) and AI agents in Salesforce. She has previously worked with Amazon , Powerschool and Mindtree Ltd in product roles. Her prior experiences are in unstructured data, AI, crawlers and AdTech space. She is a big time foodie and loves to travel to explore different cuisines.

Act on Data, Spring 26

Improving AI Accuracy with Retriever Playground: Making Retrieval Observable

Barnali Patnaik / April 30, 2026

Most AI assistants don’t fail because the model is weak. They fail because the system retrieved the wrong information. And […]

Add Intelligence, Winter 25

How Enriched Indexing with Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) Transforms Information Discovery

Barnali Patnaik / January 22, 2025

Finding the right information in a sea of data can be challenging. This blog explains how enriched indexing (vector search