An embedding leaderboard can help build a shortlist, but it cannot approve a retrieval system for your company.

Read which tasks and languages produced the score. Your identifiers, regional wording, documents, and operating limits may create a different challenge.

Build a local retrieval test and inspect which evidence is returned before adding answer generation to the comparison.

Include re-indexing effort, migration risk, latency, and ongoing operating cost. Rehearse a model change with repeatable fixtures and a recovery route.

Record where the selected model performs acceptably and what remains untested. Choose from local evidence, rather than letting one overall ranking make the business decision.

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