Context-Aware Business Search
Hybrid lexical + dense retrieval with cross-encoder re-ranking for organizational knowledge. Measuring gains over keyword search on internal corpora.
Lab active · Est. 2025
We turn uncertain technology into working systems.
DELRIQUE LABS is an applied research lab. We explore emerging tech, run disciplined experiments, build the ideas that survive — and customize open-source systems so organizations can own what they run.
01 — The Lab
A place to test what technology can become.
Technology moves fast. The lab gives us room to investigate that change through practical work — building prototypes, testing new tools, and documenting what we learn, good or bad.
Explore
Understand a technology, a problem, or an emerging idea before committing to it.
Experiment
Test it in a controlled environment with clear hypotheses and measurable outcomes.
Build
Turn the ideas that survive into working prototypes and reusable tools.
Share
Document, publish, or open-source what can benefit others.
Learn
Feed every outcome — success or failure — back into the next cycle.
Govern
Apply privacy, security and control as design constraints, not afterthoughts.
02 — Services
Open source, customized for your organization.
Don't build from scratch. Don't pay proprietary lock-in. We take proven open-source projects, harden them, theme them to your brand, and integrate them into your stack — with documentation and maintenance included.
03 — Focus Areas
What we are actively investigating.
These are questions, not services. Each area has running projects behind it.
AI & Intelligent Systems
Local AI, retrieval pipelines, automation, and AI-assisted workflows with human oversight.
6 projects
Software & Engineering
Developer tools, interfaces, and practical digital utilities built and battle-tested.
4 projects
Automation
How repetitive digital work can be simplified with software and intelligent systems.
active
Open Source
Reworking, extending and publishing useful technology for others to build on.
3 repos
Privacy & Control
Technologies that give people transparency and ownership over their digital systems.
principle
Emerging Technology
Investigating new platforms, models and frameworks before they go mainstream.
scanning
04 — Projects
What we are building.
Projects are ideas that have earned their way past the experiment stage. We build them deliberately, test assumptions as we go, and publish what proves useful.
Context-Aware Business Search
01 / Tested
Can organizational search understand business context?
Keyword search matches strings, not meaning. We asked whether results improve when a system weighs entities, relationships and intent.
02 / Hypothesis
Semantic ranking beats lexical matching
Results improve when structured organizational data is combined with semantic ranking and evaluated against internal test corpora.
03 / Approach
Hybrid retrieval + re-ranking
We prototype pipelines that fuse lexical and dense retrieval, then re-rank with a lightweight cross-encoder tuned on domain documents.
04 / Result
Findings maturing
Early runs show measurable gains on internal corpora. Full write-up publishes as the experiment matures.
On-Device Inference Pipelines
Running small language models close to the user and infrastructure — latency, cost and privacy trade-offs for enterprise use.
Resilient Workflow Automation
Idempotent, observable automation for repetitive digital work — with human checkpoints where judgement matters.
Structured Organizational Memory
Capturing institutional knowledge as structured, queryable graphs rather than documents that decay.
Privacy-First AI Workflows
Frameworks that keep data control, transparency and human oversight fundamental in AI-assisted processes.
Self-Hosted Enterprise Tooling
Modular, interoperable components that return control of the stack to the organization.
Full write-ups publish as experiments mature — and they'll appear here and on Insights when they're released.
05 — Open Source
Built to be shared.
When an experiment can be useful beyond the lab, we share it — where licensing, security and project maturity allow.
Research Libraries
Reusable code libraries and analysis frameworks extracted from our experiments.
As projects mature
Developer Tools
Utilities that improve development and review workflows.
Coming soon
Infrastructure
Self-hosted and deployment tooling for reproducible environments.
Coming soon
Principle. We open-source when it helps others and when doing so doesn't compromise a partner's confidentiality or a project's security. Repositories will be linked here as they are released.
06 — Services
Open source, customized for your organization.
Don't build from scratch. Don't pay proprietary lock-in. We take proven open-source projects, harden them, theme them to your brand, and integrate them into your stack — with documentation and maintenance included.
The offer
Own the system. Skip the risk.
You get a system your team understands, controls, and can modify — built on a foundation thousands of others already rely on, then shaped to your context.
Hardened by default
We close the gaps generic deployments leave open: auth, secrets, logging, rate limits, and update hygiene.
Themed to your brand
Interface, terminology and workflows aligned to how your teams actually work — not a generic admin panel.
Integrated, not isolated
Wired into your SSO, data sources and existing tooling so it earns its place in the stack.
What we customize
Seven steps, end to end.
Fork
Select a mature, well-maintained open-source base suited to the problem — audited for license and supply-chain risk.
Harden
Patch, configure securely, remove unused attack surface, and add the controls your compliance posture requires.
Theme
Brand-aligned interface, language and layout — usable by your people on day one.
Integrate
Connect to identity, data and adjacent systems via clean, documented interfaces.
Extend
Build the capabilities the upstream project doesn't ship but your workflow needs.
Document
Operator runbooks, admin guides and architecture notes your team can actually use.
Maintain
A defined maintenance plan: upstream tracking, patch cadence, and a clear escalation path.
Hand over
Source, keys, credentials and knowledge transferred cleanly to your team or ours to run.
Why this beats the alternatives
Three paths, one clear winner.
Build from scratch
Maximum fit, maximum cost and risk. You re-learn every lesson the open-source community already shipped.
slow · expensive
Proprietary SaaS
Fast to start, but you inherit recurring cost, data residency questions, and vendor lock-in.
recurring · locked-in
Recommended
Customized open source
Proven foundation, shaped to you, owned by you. The balance of speed, control and cost.
owned · adaptable
Example domains
Where this fits.
Enterprise tooling
Internal apps, portals and workflows built on open frameworks instead of bespoke code.
Internal utilities
Document pipelines, reporting, dashboards and automation glued to your systems.
Observability & dashboards
Self-hosted analytics and monitoring with your data never leaving your perimeter.
Automation layers
Workflow engines and bots that replace brittle manual processes, with audit trails.
Engagement process
How a project runs.
01
Audit
We map your problem, constraints, stack and compliance needs — and pick a candidate base.
02
Plan
A written scope: what we fork, what we harden, what we build, and what "done" means.
03
Customize
Harden → theme → integrate → extend, in short reviewable increments.
04
Integrate
Connect to your environment; validate with your data and your users.
05
Handover & Maintain
Documentation, runbooks, and a maintenance plan you can adopt or have us run.
Assurance
Your control stays yours.
Confidentiality & security
Work is covered by mutual NDA. We default to your infrastructure, your credentials, and your data residency rules. We never train external models on your data, and we hand back every secret at project end. The result is yours to keep, modify and audit.
07 — Insights
From the lab.
Detailed write-ups — experiment results, architecture decisions and observations — are published here as they mature.
08 — Philosophy
DELRIQUE means "Deliver Unique."
Not novelty for its own sake — but the pursuit of better ideas, better systems, and better outcomes. The lab applies that philosophy to technology: explore widely, experiment carefully, build deliberately, and share what proves useful.
"Better ideas. Better systems. Better outcomes."
09 — Connect
Have something worth exploring?
We're interested in ideas, technical problems, experiments and opportunities where technology can be tested, built or improved.
contact@delrique.com
