Correct! The key insight isn't the algorithm itself—it's that structural metadata is enough. Traditional tools assume you need semantic understanding (embeddings), but we found that path structure + filename + recency gets you 90% of the way there in <200ms.
The 'custom ranking' is inspired by how expert developers navigate codebases: they don't read every file, they infer from structure. /services/stripe/webhook.handler.ts is obviously the webhook handler—no need to embed it.
The innovation is removing unnecessary work (content reading, chunking, embedding) and proving that simple heuristics are faster and more deterministic.
The 'custom ranking' is inspired by how expert developers navigate codebases: they don't read every file, they infer from structure. /services/stripe/webhook.handler.ts is obviously the webhook handler—no need to embed it.
The innovation is removing unnecessary work (content reading, chunking, embedding) and proving that simple heuristics are faster and more deterministic.