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Notes on local AI, file organization, and building embly.

April 2026

Local AI File Search: How It Works

A technical walkthrough of how embly builds a local vector index from your files and resolves plain English queries without any cloud round-trip.

April 2026

File Classification at Scale: Our Accuracy Benchmark

We ran embly's classifier against 40,000 real-world files. Here's what the numbers say: 91% top-1, 97% top-3, and what the error cases reveal.

April 2026

What Is Semantic File Search?

Keyword search finds the word you typed. Semantic search finds the idea you meant. This post explains how embeddings work and why they're better for personal file retrieval.