Hybrid Search Battlecards
Respond to common hybrid-search objections using exact-token and semantic-recall principles.
Objection: 'Embeddings should handle this without keyword search.' Battlecard A stakeholder wants vector-only simplicity. Your line Embeddings handle paraphrase; exact identifiers still need lexical evidence. Hybrid lets each retriever cover the failure mode it is good at. Arguing that one method is always better turns a query-pattern issue into a tool debate. It frames hybrid as division of labor, not complexity for its own sake. Vector-only vs hybrid for audit queries Compare Use hybrid when the query contains identifiers and natural language. What does RRF avoid comparing directly? Score scales. It avoids directly comparing raw BM25 scores with vector similarity…
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