Welcome to the new home of DEEP⌟ (Deep Retrieval Infrastructure).
For over 20 years, Deep Web Technologies has built federated and meta-search engines powering institutional access for scientific databases like Science.gov and economic knowledge portals like UNECA Askia.
As we pivot to address the requirements of high-stakes Enterprise AI Agents, we are modernizing our developer experience. The first step of this effort is a complete port of our public-facing site to Astro.
Why Astro?
Our requirements are strict:
- Zero unnecessary JavaScript: We need high performance and minimal client-side overhead.
- Flexible static generation: Easy pages for documentation, blog updates, and our open source connector specification.
- Vanilla style integration: The ability to continue using our precise design system (stepped shadows, responsive parallax scrolling) without having to wrap everything in complex React or Vue containers.
Astro allows us to ship 0KB of JS by default, compiling our structured layouts to static pages, while seamlessly packing our minimal interactive hover and parallax script blocks only where required.
What is next?
In future posts, we will outline:
- Our upcoming Open Connector Standard (read about eliminating the connector tax) defining query schemas and federated search normalization.
- Best practices for caching, source authority, and why structured metadata is superior (see why web snippets fail) in agentic workflows.
- Guides on integrating the DEEP⌟ API as a primary retrieval layer beneath LangChain, LlamaIndex, and custom agent programs.
If you are currently building high-stakes AI workflows and are hitting retrieval limits, talk to us.