Rui is a founding engineer at Mixedbread with a strong focus on multimodal semantic search, high performance retrieval pipelines and efficient context engineering. He is leading the development of Mixedbread search, a state-of-the-art multimodal retrieval system for humans and AI.

Isaac is an independent consultant, OSS contributor, and product builder who has helped many companies incorporate AI into their products. I've taught AI efficiency to companies for years and worked for tech startups and cutting edge labs.

As a consultant, I have helped companies of all sizes from startups (such as Ankihub and SpecStory) to enterprise clients (such as Travel & Leisure and Cable and Wireless Communications). Previously, I worked as a researcher at Novetta where I worked on Chatbots, and worked at other cutting edge labs such as Answer AI.