Sift & Scout - AI-powered discovery for editorial archives.
Sift & Scout brings AI-powered search to editorial publications on Craft CMS — and conversational discovery for the partners ready to help us shape it. Built with Anthropic Claude, Supabase, and Voyage AI.
Built with the modern AI stack.
Sift & Scout sits on top of best-in-class infrastructure — the same tools developers use to build retrieval-augmented AI in production today.
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Anthropic Claude
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Voyage AI
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Supabase
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Craft CMS
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WordPress (coming)
Semantic Search
Modern search that understands meaning, not just keywords. Readers ask questions the way they actually think, and Scout returns relevant entries from your archive — with source cards showing author, image, and excerpt for every result.
- Meaning-based matching
- Source-card results with metadata
- Per-section card customization
- Drop-in shadow-DOM widget
- Inherits your typography & brand
- No iframes
Conversational Discovery
Readers ask plain-language questions about your archive and Scout answers with cited sources. Built on Anthropic Claude with grounded citation — every answer linked back to real articles. Currently exploring this layer with editorial partners.
Admins choose what content goes into the retrieval layer — entire sections, specific entry types, or filtered subsets — configured from the CMS control panel. Editorial decides what Scout draws from, and what stays out.
- Plain-language Q&A
- Citation-backed answers
- Source cards on every response
- Real-time streaming
- Configurable cost cap
- Grounded — no hallucinations
Editorial Structure
Scout indexes the real content structure of your CMS — block-based content, rich text fields, and custom metadata. Per-section cards mean reviews, interviews, essays, and news each render with the information that matters most for their type.
- Block-based content aware
- Rich text editor indexing
- Custom field indexing
- Per-section card layouts
- Author metadata surfacing
- Configurable from CMS admin
How it works
Three steps from your archive to a cited answer.
Sift & Scout runs on dedicated infrastructure outside your web application. That separation is what makes it fast — Voyage, Supabase, and Anthropic run on their own pipes, returning results in milliseconds even on archives with hundreds of thousands of entries. Your CMS handles publishing; Sift & Scout handles discovery.
Step 01
Embed
Voyage AI converts every entry in your archive into semantic vectors that capture meaning — not just keywords.
Step 02
Store
Supabase keeps the vectors alongside your content's metadata, organized by section, author, and custom fields.
Step 03
Query
Anthropic Claude synthesizes answers grounded only in matching entries from the content your team has ingested, with source cards linking back to the original articles and editorial CTAs injected directly into Claude's response.
On the roadmap
The next-generation search and chat plugin for WordPress.
The same retrieval-augmented search and conversational discovery, packaged as a plugin for publishers, schools, museums, and content-driven sites running WordPress. Same architecture, same drop-in widget, same editorial structure awareness — built natively for the platform.