Searchcraft

Searchcraft Inc. is a US-based provider headquartered in Colorado, building a Rust-powered, developer-first search engine. The platform combines three search approaches: classic keyword search with natural-language enrichment for chat interfaces, AI-powered instant search with filters, facets, and fuzzy matching, and a "semantic control layer" for intent detection. This layer identifies what a search query actually means without needing a vector database. Vector databases normally store content as numeric vectors to find similar meanings — Searchcraft deliberately skips this, staying faster and simpler to operate according to the company.

Technical features include sub-millisecond response times, multi-threaded indexing, typo tolerance, custom synonyms, field boosting, and multilingual support. For relevancy scoring, Searchcraft uses BM25, an established algorithm that weighs search terms by how often they appear in a document versus across the whole index. Searchcraft is offered both as a fully managed cloud service (Vektron Dashboard) and as self-hostable "Searchcraft Core," aimed at teams building product search, documentation search, internal copilots, or RAG workflows. RAG stands for Retrieval-Augmented Generation: an AI model pulls in a company's own, current data to answer a question instead of relying only on what it learned during training. Searchcraft also integrates with AI coding clients via the Model Context Protocol (MCP), an open standard that lets AI assistants access external tools and data sources.