We’ve been building our startup at the intersection of retrieval and document processing. Having pitched it to customers, team members and investors, I realized that I had priors that I had not shared. Thus, I set up visualizations for the major search and retrieval methods that exist out there. Hope you find them interesting. Let me know what you think!

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P.S. Disclaimer before you jump in: every use case comes with different trade-offs and should be considered individually. I had to make generalizations to be able to create comparisons. So if you’re a die-hard fan of say Hybrid RAG, please know that I agree that there are use cases where the trade-offs work out in its favor.