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title: "Hire Weaviate Specialists for Hybrid Search | Azendo"
description: "Weaviate specialists combine vector and keyword search and design the schema behind it. Outsource to an AI-trained offshore team and skip the people management."
url: "https://azendo.co/skills/weaviate/"
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# Weaviate specialists for your dedicated team.

Weaviate is an open-source vector database with a GraphQL interface, built-in hybrid search combining vector and keyword retrieval, optional modules that generate embeddings, and both self-hosted and managed deployment.

## Where Weaviate fits in a long-term product team.

Built-in hybrid search is Weaviate's strongest practical feature. Combining semantic similarity with keyword matching usually outperforms either alone, and having the fusion implemented and tunable removes work that teams otherwise do badly.

The schema is more structured than most vector stores require: classes, properties and cross-references are declared. That takes more upfront design and produces a data model that can be queried meaningfully as well as searched, which matters once retrieval needs to respect relationships.

## What your dedicated team does with Weaviate.

Being open source means self-hosting is available, which matters where data can't go to a managed service. It also means running it, including resource planning, upgrades and backups, is your responsibility.

Choosing between managed and self-hosted on data-residency grounds is a scoping question, as set out in how the monthly fee is built.

## Common Weaviate use cases.

* Hybrid retrieval without assembling it Vector and keyword fusion built in and tunable.
* Relationships in the retrieval model Cross-references so retrieval can respect structure, not only similarity.
* Self-hosted where data cannot leave Full control of the deployment, with the operational load that implies.

## Adding Weaviate skills to your team.

Weaviate work sits with the AI engineers on your team, with the hosting decision made on data-residency grounds.

At Azendo, Weaviate work sits with a [dedicated AI engineering team](https://azendo.co/services/dedicated-ai-engineering-team/). You can add Weaviate capacity as one dedicated specialist or as part of a wider remote team, with the people managed by us from our offices in Thailand. Companies [hire dedicated developers](https://azendo.co/hire-a-dedicated-development-team-in-thailand/) this way under one agreement and one monthly fee.

## Roles that use Weaviate

* [AI Engineer AI engineering](https://azendo.co/services/dedicated-ai-engineering-team/ai-engineer/)

## Service areas that use Weaviate

* [AI engineering](https://azendo.co/services/dedicated-ai-engineering-team/)

Capacity is agreed across your whole team, with one monthly fee, not per skill.

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## Tell us what you need Weaviate for.

A service delivery manager will reply with the specialists we'd suggest, the monthly capacity and what the first month looks like.

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