Vector Search and PMOs

Experiments in low-resource use of vector search

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Alex Parsons

Notes on practical low-resource use of vector search

Contents

1. Overview
   1. What is vector search?
   2. Building a vector store in Postgres and Django
   3. Searching TheyWorkForYou using vectors
   4. Local vs remote embeddings
2. Uses
   1. Improving transcript parsers
   2. Similarity injection for alert creation
   3. Building a vector alert for references to members interests

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Parsons, A. (2024). Vector Search and PMOs. [online] mySociety Research. Available at: https://research.mysociety.org/publications/vector-search-notes-2024 [Accessed 6 Sep 2026].