Building Foundry Part 2: Where creative workflows break | Weaviate

This post details the breakdown of traditional organization methods (folders, tags, keyword search) in creative workflows due to scaling, deadline pressure, and vocabulary mismatch. It argues for a retrieval-centric approach that combines semantic similarity, keyword matching, and metadata filtering. The post outlines an ingestion-first strategy for preparing assets with embeddings and metadata, and a retrieval-second strategy for combining multiple signals to achieve production-safe results. It uses Weaviate as an example for implementing this hybrid search.