IntentForge v2 Roadmap (ROA)
This document outlines the planned evolution of IntentForge v2, focusing on intent-driven discovery, personalization, and ecosystem expansion.
🚀 Current State (v2.0)
- ✅ Hybrid Search: 70/30 Semantic/Keyword balance with Binary Quantization.
- ✅ Privacy Core: Tor Snowflake transport + Cloudflare Edge fallback.
- ✅ Self-Improvement: Background discovery for zero-result queries.
- ✅ Image/Video Support: Specialized discovery and extraction pipelines.
- ✅ Real-time News: Aggregation from 5+ providers with geo-awareness.
🛠️ Phase 1: Enhanced Intelligence & Intent (Next 3-6 Months)
- Choice-Based Disambiguation: When a query is vague (e.g., "Python"), present the user with intent choices (Tutorials, Reference, News, Comparison) to instantly narrow results.
- Deep Personalization (Local-First): Direct interaction with the algorithm to weight specific domains, topics, or skill levels. Personalization data stays on the user's device/instance (Zero-Trust).
- Zero-Trust Privacy Layer: Implementation of a cryptographic layer to ensure that neither ISPs nor attackers can intercept or modify search requests and results.
- Latency Overhaul: Optimize ONNX inference and Meilisearch vector lookups to consistently hit sub-30ms P99 latency.
🛍️ Phase 2: Domain-Specific Excellence
- E-Commerce Optimizer: Shift results for commercial queries to prioritize direct product links over blog posts/affiliate articles. Implement price tracking and comparison directly in the search view.
- Courses & Student Roadmap: A dedicated "Courses" tab that aggregates documentation, videos, and open-source materials to provide a guided "Expert Level" roadmap for any skill or topic.
- Research Hub: Deep integration with arXiv, PubMed, and institutional repositories for academic-grade discovery.
🎨 Phase 3: Visual & Interactive Search
- Image Search 2.0: Direct extraction and OCR (Optical Character Recognition) on images for better semantic matching. Prioritize high-resolution and license-friendly (Creative Commons) content.
- Interactive Roadmaps: Generate dynamic, visual roadmaps for complex topics using discovered content.
- Voice Discovery: Natural language voice interface with intent-aware conversational follow-ups.
🌐 Phase 4: Decentralization & Scaling
- Peer-to-Peer Discovery: Allow IntentForge instances to share discovery signals anonymously to build a global, decentralized web index.
- Distributed Ranking: Federated ranking models that learn from global trends without compromising individual privacy.
- Multi-Tenant Management: API key management and billing layers for enterprise deployment.
Technical Debt & Maintenance
- OpenTelemetry: Full distributed tracing across all microservices.
- SimHash V2: Improved cross-backend deduplication for identical content across different providers.
- Modular Providers: Plugin system for adding new meta-search providers without modifying core code.