About Us - Sease

IMPROVE YOUR ABILITY TO MEET USERS' INFORMATION NEEDS!

If you are struggling with an information retrieval project or want to integrate AI technology into your systems, we are the best solution for you!

OUR COMPANY

Sease is a tech company specialising in Information Retrieval founded in 2016 by Alessandro Benedetti.

The main focus of the company is to provide R&D projects guidance and implementation, search consulting services, training and search solutions using open source software such as Apache Lucene/Solr, Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, Vespa, Apache ManifoldCF, Apache Stanbol, Apache open NLP.

OUR MISSION

Sease mission is to make research in Information Retrieval more accessible to an industry audience, transforming the best research principles, ideas and implementations from academia into real-world products.

OUR VISION

Firmly believing Open Source is the way, Sease puts strong efforts into contributing code back to the community, supporting public mailing lists and evangelising R&D at world-class conferences.

OUR SERVICES

OUR TRAINING

We are constantly educating the search experts of tomorrow!
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Artificial Intelligence
in search

Learn how to design and implement intelligent natural language search leveraging Open Source software.

Learning to Rank

Solve a ranking problem integrating machine learning system with your search engine. Learn how to build a training set, train your model and test it both online and offline.

Search Relevance

Satisfy the user information needs. Learn how to develop and configure your open source search engine to maximize how well the search results fit the user information need.

Search Quality Evaluation

Go deep into online/offline search quality evaluation and learn how to integrate these technologies/tools with your ecosystem.

OUR TEAM

At Sease we are an extended family, we deeply care about each other and the personal well-being of our employees is an adamant priority. We are a tech company but we never forget that human beings do Science: so to guarantee our level of excellence we value our people, encourage their development, and reward their performance.

ALESSANDRO BENEDETTI

DIRECTOR @ SEASE

ANDREA GAZZARINI

PARTNER @ SEASE

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// OUR TESTIMONIALS

We are trusted worldwide

Alessandro is an extremely knowledgeable search developer, with a rare level of deep insights into the inner workings of Apache Lucene and Apache Solr. Furthermore, his passion and dedication is exemplary, attending meetups, taking time out of work to attend conferences, and working on open source contributions in his own time. It has been a pleasure working with him, and I would definitely hire Alessandro again if the opportunity arose.

Canva solicited Sease’s guidance when we were facing some challenging scale and performance problems with our Solr clusters. Specifically, we had issues with our Solr7 cluster configuration & high latencies on tail queries. They worked with us to understand the key challenges with Canva's implementation of Solr & its various collections. They also worked with us to understand how we were operating our Solr clusters at the scale of 1000 RPS to deeply investigate any fundamental operational mistakes. As a result of this partnership, they provided a very comprehensive report of suggestions for improvement. These suggestions allowed us to smoothly upgrade the major version of Solr to 8. We have also seen improved stability of the service, with a reduction in latency spikes under heavy load.

Strong experience!
Very strong experience, they got the job and worked fast! Most definitely would collaborate again. Andrea is definitely a Solr expert, we really enjoyed having him help us!

I had the pleasure to work with Alessandro and Sease team for over a year and a half. His team was contracted to Search and Discovery team at Alfresco. As a team lead I was very lucky to get such support. Without their input we would not be able to achieve the business goals in the time limits. Their diligent and highly professional work helped not only to make the Search project successful, but also to grow the skills and expertise inside the team. They were able to coach and mentor the developers, provide internal training. Their deep knowledge of Solr and Elasticsearch helped to overcome a lot of complexity and deliver the necessary features and improvements to our customers in a timely manner.

I recently took the course on Apache Solr Neural Search and I must say it was really good. Alessandro and Ilaria were very knowledgeable and presented the material in a clear and concise manner. They went over the contents at a reasonable pace giving enough time for questions at the end of each section. The training was extremely helpful in understanding the concepts and implementation of vector-based search in Solr. I highly recommend this course to anyone looking to avail of Solr neural search capabilities to improve search experience.