Thumbtack
RAG and search

Three principles for building a vector platform at Thumbtack

Our short summary of Thumbtack’s engineering write-up. The full story, with all the detail, is on their blog.

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Problem

Teams found it hard to create and use vector search without extra infrastructure and high cost.

Solution

Thumbtack built a reusable vector platform that lets teams feed any embedding model, stores vectors in a database, and offers a simple API for similarity queries.

Want the architecture, code and numbers? They’re in the original post.

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