Topology should not be a prerequisite
You should be able to search a corpus without first designing a cluster to hold it. Adding capacity should be starting a process, not planning a migration.
Company
We think the cluster was a workaround.
Gnarl is built by Lucenia. We have spent a long time building distributed search for organizations whose data was never going to fit in one place — and we got tired of pretending it would.
Published by O’Reilly MediaWho builds this
Created by the O’Reilly author of Scaling Search and Retrieval for Contextual AI.
Lucenia was founded by Nicholas Knize — search infrastructure engineer, holder of eight patents in search and information retrieval, and author of the O’Reilly guide to scaling search and retrieval for contextual AI. Gnarl is the part of that work that would not fit inside a cluster.
- O’Reilly published author on search and retrieval at scale
- 15+ years building distributed search infrastructure
- Eight patents in search and information retrieval
- Trusted by Fortune 500 companies and government agencies
What we believe
Four opinions the product is built on.
Data should not have to move to be useful
Copying an archive somewhere else in order to ask it a question is a workaround we all stopped noticing. It is expensive, it is slow, and increasingly it is not allowed.
Partial answers beat confident wrong ones
A distributed system that hides which parts did not respond is lying by omission. Coverage belongs in the response, where the caller can act on it.
The edge is not a second-class citizen
A phone in the field holds data a datacenter never will. If it can index and answer, it is a peer — not a client waiting for a server.
Backed by Lucenia
The team behind distributed search at planetary scale.
Lucenia builds search and retrieval infrastructure for organizations with more data than any single system was designed to hold — geospatial archives, regulated corpora, and the retrieval layer under contextual AI. Gnarl is Lucenia’s decentralized network layer: the same retrieval engineering, without the requirement that everything end up in one place first.
- Founded
- 2024
- Parent
- Lucenia
- Product
- Gnarl — decentralized search
- Stage
- Early, in active development
- Contact
- hello@lucenia.io
The future of search isn’t bigger clusters. It’s smarter networks.
Work with us on this.
If your data is somewhere it cannot leave, we would genuinely like to hear about it — that is the case Gnarl exists for.