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Short essays from the team on agentic search, retrieval pipelines, and the parts of LLM-mediated lookup that bite you in production.
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Source-aware retrieval: knowing what your engine knows
Most search engines hide their backends behind a single answer. slorg shows you which engines returned which URLs, what content was actually extracted, and what the LLM scored each one — because retrieval without source awareness is just confident guessing.
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Planning the search: where the latency budget really goes
A breakdown of the three LLM calls and N content fetches that make up a slorg query, what each one costs, and which knobs actually move the needle.
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Most agentic search throws queries at Google and prays
Why the dominant pattern in LLM-mediated search is functionally a wrapper around a single search call — and what changes when you make the plan the first artifact, not the last.
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