Hello, searchniks.

Your search rules deserve the same rigor as your code.

You deal daily with the countless, unexpected ways people phrase what they're looking for. There's almost no tooling, and even less process, for that work — until now.

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Sound familiar?

No clear owner

An email arrives: "this query doesn't work." Or it's a Slack message, or a forwarded ticket. No one owns it, and no one's sure what happens next.

Rules that nobody remembers

Someone boosted a product line eleven months ago for a promotion that ended in February. Ask around and you'll hear "why did we even create that rule?" more than once.

Dev team, interrupted

When a fix is needed fast, it's often engineers who pick it up - pulled off real work to patch a search problem that shouldn't have needed them at all.

This isn't a tooling gap that nobody has noticed. It's a whole discipline that has never been given a process.

There are three ways to improve search. Only one of them reaches beyond a single item, ships today — and still doesn't need an engineer.

Algorithmic change
Who
Engineers & data scientists
Impact scope
Potentially all traffic
Release
Needs an A/B test
Searchnik's category
Active search management
Who
No engineer required
Impact scope
The queries you target
Release
Almost instantly, no A/B test
Content edit
Who
Content & PIM teams
Impact scope
Usually one document
Release
Indexing required

Most teams get a huge uplift from the middle tier, precisely because it's fast and doesn't require an engineer or an A/B test. The catch: unlike the other two, it has never had a real process — no versioning, no review, no visibility into what a rule actually affects. That's the gap Searchnik fills.

Why it's worth taking it seriously

A small, well-managed set of queries goes a long way.

Search traffic has a long tail: in one real dataset, 3,902 queries out of 286,599 distinct ones — about 1.4% — accounted for half of all search traffic. Manage the right thousand queries well, and you're in control of most of what people actually experience.

3,902 queries = 50% of traffic short head long tail →
Why we built this

Meet Searchnik.

Built by the team at OpenSource Connections — search relevance consultants for over a decade.

We've spent decades in the trenches of search relevance, helping teams get better at exactly this. That's why we decided to create Searchnik.

Insight
Rule
Impact tracking
What's the impact of this rule?
How important is this query, really?
How do I retract every winter-season rule at once?
Starts with Querqy rule management on OpenSearch Elasticsearch Solr

From there, it grows into the rest of active search management.

For hands-on teams

Help shape Searchnik as a design partner.

Whether you're already managing synonyms, boosts, filters, and redirects with Querqy, doing it some other way entirely, or don't have a real way to do it yet — if you've recognized your rules deserve better process than they're getting today, that's exactly the moment we want to talk to you.

Design partners don't just get early access — they help decide what we build next. Your feedback, and your own rule-management needs however you handle them today, directly shape the roadmap.

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We're building Searchnik now. Sign up and we'll keep you posted as it takes shape — including when the beta opens.

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