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Writing

Technical playbooks and shorter posts on retrieval, agents, and production search.

Technical

Playbooks and deep dives
Agents
How to Scale Agent Retrieval Without Guessing

From Q&A chatbots to systems that independently plan, retrieve, act, and verify. Latency, cost, quality tradeoffs at each stage.

Reranking
Balancing Relevance and Diversity with MMR Search

How Qdrant's native MMR balances similar results with diverse results for better retrieval quality.

Eval
Data-Driven RAG Evaluation with Relari AI

Reproducible RAG evaluation using Qdrant for retrieval and Relari for real-world performance assessment.

Blog

Shorter posts and walkthroughs
Benchmarks
Building Better LLM Benchmarks with Prime Intellect

NBA stats, Balatro, and the cost of curiosity. Eight iterations of benchmark design, from kitchen sink to meaningful model separation.

Search Agents
How to Build Search Agents with Qdrant

Transparency, control, and building agents that search with intention rather than brute force.

Ingestion
Semantic Search on Messy Documents with Mistral OCR

Turning scanned documents into a searchable knowledge base with OCR + vector indexing.

Diversity
Better Vector Search with MMR for Diversity-Aware Reranking

Breaking echo chambers in search results using the DeepFashion dataset as a proving ground.