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A source describing Compass, Cohere’s retrieval system, covering its cloud deployment rationale, cost benefits from precise retrieval, design requirements for agentic workflows, and accuracy gains—benchmarked on a financial RAG task. Lisez 4 points de vue avec leurs éléments à l’appui et les liens vers les sources.

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  • Customer demand drove managed offering

    Teams consistently asked for a managed Compass offering—wanting its best-in-class retrieval without the operational overhead of self-hosting.

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  • Precise retrieval reduces token costs

    More precise retrieval delivers smaller, higher-quality inputs to generative models, cutting inference costs and task completion time. Retrieval is among the most effective cost levers available to businesses today.

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  • Agentic workflows require reliable multi-query retrieval

    Agents may issue dozens of queries per task. Retrieval systems must therefore perform reliably across sequences of machine-generated queries—not just single-shot searches—while maintaining relevance, enforcing permissions at every step, and avoiding latency accumulation.

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  • Compass improved accuracy by 14–16 points on financial RAG workload

    On the High Finance benchmark—a Cohere-built investment-banking RAG workload—Compass improved accuracy by 14–16 points over Azure Search (64.8 → 81.1). That gap can distinguish between unsatisfactory and great end-user answers.

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product deployment strategy

Customer demand drove managed offering

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Customer demand for a managed option has been clear and consistent: teams want Compass' best-in-class retrieval capabilities, but many do not want the operational overhead that comes with self-hosting.
cost optimization

Precise retrieval reduces token costs

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Token economics: Every irrelevant result passed to a model consumes tokens and occupies limited context space. More precise retrieval creates smaller, higher-quality inputs, reducing inference costs and cutting the time needed to complete a task. Retrieval is one of the most effective cost levers available to businesses today.
performance benchmarking

Compass improved accuracy by 14–16 points on financial RAG workload

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The figure below is one instance of the accuracy gain over traditional or standalone search infrastructure on a representative financial-industry RAG workload: embed a query, retrieve presentation materials from an index, and score the top results. On High Finance, a Cohere-built investment-banking benchmark, Compass achieved a 14-16 point improvement on Azure Search (from 64.8 to 81.1). A gap of this size can be the difference between an unsatisfactory answer and a great one for the end user.
retrieval system design

Agentic workflows require reliable multi-query retrieval

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Agentic access patterns: Agents may issue dozens of queries while completing one task, reformulating requests and traversing multiple sources. In these multi-hop loops, latency accumulates, relevance can drift, and permissions must be enforced at every step. Retrieval must therefore perform reliably across sequences of machine-generated queries, not only single-shot searches.

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