Making AI search fast
I help teams build fast search over unstructured data: vector databases, RAG pipelines, and over a decade of web performance craft.

Haystack Europe 2026: the bleeding edge of retrieval engineering
Agents as search consumers, hybrid retrieval as the default, and how to evaluate search systems - a summary of my takeaways from Haystack Europe 2026.

The RAG Cost Curve
When does a retrieval index actually beat live search? Measured break-even points, not vendor claims: 334 queries a day on a short agent history, never on code the model already knows, and 24 on code it has never seen.
More in the blog and the talk archive.