Is this for you?
- Users complain that search "just doesn't find things."
- Relevance was tuned once years ago and nobody remembers by whom.
- You're about to bolt on LLM or RAG features and want retrieval solid first.
- You suspect the analyzers are wrong for your content but tracing it is nobody's job.
What you get
- Written report (15–25 pages) with findings grouped by severity.
- Annotated mapping and analyzer review.
- Query review with 10–20 representative queries, scored and diagnosed.
- Prioritized remediation roadmap with effort estimates.
- 60-minute walkthrough with your engineering team.
Scope
What's in
- Index mapping and analyzer review
- Query structure and scoring review
- Representative-query testing
- Relevance remediation planning
What's out
- Cluster infrastructure tuning
- ES version upgrades
- Hybrid search / vector integration beyond scoping (see RAG System Audit)
- Implementing the fixes
Process
Intake
Day 1Kickoff, access to repo, index settings, sample queries, intro to team.
Discovery
Days 2–5Mapping and analyzer audit, representative-query generation with stakeholders, scoring baseline.
Analysis
Days 6–9Failure mode categorization, fix design, ranking experiments where possible.
Report
Days 10–12Draft, review, finalize.
Walkthrough
Day 1460-minute call with your team.
Pricing
50% to start, 50% on report delivery. Includes one 30-minute follow-up call within 30 days of delivery.
One fixed price. No surprises, no “starting at” language. If we agree on scope and you pay the deposit, the engagement is locked in.
Questions
Do you work on OpenSearch?
Yes.
Do you need production cluster access?
Read access to a representative environment is enough. Production access is not required.
Can you implement the fixes?
Separately, yes.
Will you sign an NDA?
Yes.
About
I've built Elasticsearch-based discovery and search for audio and content platforms. The audit is grounded in real relevance work, not a checklist of config settings.
More about the studioReady to start?
Book an intro call. If we're not a fit, I'll tell you on the call.