Compass is coming to the cloud | Cohere

This post announces the private beta of Compass Cloud, a managed offering of Cohere's retrieval platform. It details how Compass addresses open problems in enterprise search, including token economics, agentic access patterns, and a fragmented retrieval stack. The post outlines Compass's full-stack architecture, covering data connection, parsing, embedding, indexing, retrieval, reranking, and governance. It highlights premium retrieval accuracy with a benchmark comparison and introduces two integration methods: Compass API for custom RAG/search and Model Context Protocol (MCP) for agentic retrieval. The post also mentions the availability of self-hosted deployments for privacy-constrained projects.