# Engineering, retrieval, and the company we're building.

Human page: https://quelvio.com/blog · Machine view: https://quelvio.com/ai/blog

Field notes from the team building Quelvio.

## Categories

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   Engineering — 2 posts
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   Product — 2 posts
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   Industry — 1 post
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   Company — 1 post
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   Research — 1 post

## Posts

Sorted newest first. Each entry links to its full machine-readable page; the canonical human view sits at the same path under /blog/<slug>.

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   Quelvio CLI: company knowledge in your terminal Company · May 22, 2026 · 6 min read Completions, smart hints, progress indicators, update-check, and $EDITOR multiline. Why a CLI when Quelvio already speaks MCP — and what authority-scored, lifecycle-aware retrieval looks like at a shell prompt. [Machine view](https://quelvio.com/ai/blog/quelvio-cli-launch) · [Human view](https://quelvio.com/blog/quelvio-cli-launch)
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   How Quelvio ranks authority across your company's knowledge Engineering · May 18, 2026 · 8 min read A look at the freshness × authorship × cross-reference graph that decides which Slack message wins over a year-old PDF — and why our retrieval pipeline routes by expertise, not by keywords. [Machine view](https://quelvio.com/ai/blog/how-quelvio-ranks-authority) · [Human view](https://quelvio.com/blog/how-quelvio-ranks-authority)
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   From scattered Drive to a single brain in 48 hours Product · May 12, 2026 · 6 min read What the connector setup actually does in the background — and why most companies are surprised by the coverage map. [Machine view](https://quelvio.com/ai/blog/scattered-drive-to-single-brain) · [Human view](https://quelvio.com/blog/scattered-drive-to-single-brain)
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   Why MCP isn't enough on its own Industry · May 6, 2026 · 5 min read Model Context Protocol gives agents a way to retrieve. It doesn't give them a context layer. We explain the gap. [Machine view](https://quelvio.com/ai/blog/why-mcp-isnt-enough) · [Human view](https://quelvio.com/blog/why-mcp-isnt-enough)
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   Cross-reference graphs and the supersession problem Engineering · April 28, 2026 · 7 min read How we detect when a Notion page silently replaces a Confluence one — and which signal wins. [Machine view](https://quelvio.com/ai/blog/cross-reference-graphs-supersession) · [Human view](https://quelvio.com/blog/cross-reference-graphs-supersession)
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   Authority decay: how knowledge ages inside a company Research · April 21, 2026 · 9 min read Patterns we see across the customer corpora Quelvio indexes — how engineering knowledge loses authority over 18 months, and what restores it. [Machine view](https://quelvio.com/ai/blog/authority-decay) · [Human view](https://quelvio.com/blog/authority-decay)
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   Permission-aware retrieval, explained Product · April 7, 2026 · 6 min read Every employee only sees results from documents they already had access to. Here's the mechanics behind enforcing it at the vector level. [Machine view](https://quelvio.com/ai/blog/permission-aware-retrieval) · [Human view](https://quelvio.com/blog/permission-aware-retrieval)

## Related

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   [Human view of this page](https://quelvio.com/blog)
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   [Quelvio for AI agents (machine view)](https://quelvio.com/ai/docs/ai-agents)
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   [Everything for agents: llms.txt](https://quelvio.com/llms.txt)