Presear builds high-performance recommendation engines — collaborative filtering, content-based, hybrid models, and real-time personalisation — that drive engagement and revenue by surfacing exactly what each user needs, before they ask.
Core Techniques
Six proven approaches — from classic matrix factorisation to knowledge graph-augmented models — that we deploy based on your data profile and scale requirements.
We decompose user-item interaction matrices using SVD, ALS, and neural collaborative filtering to discover latent preference factors. This approach excels at surfacing non-obvious items that similar users engaged with — driving serendipity at scale without requiring item metadata.
We build rich item embeddings from structured metadata, unstructured text, images, and audio features — then match user preference profiles to the most semantically similar items. Particularly effective for new-item onboarding and domains with rich catalogue descriptions.
We combine collaborative and content signals through weighted blending, stacking, or learned mixing networks — capturing the strengths of both approaches while suppressing their individual weaknesses. Hybrid models consistently outperform single-source methods in production benchmarks.
We model user behaviour as an ordered sequence — using GRU4Rec, BERT4Rec, and SASRec architectures — to predict the next item based on the current session context. This approach is essential for anonymous users and high-velocity platforms where intent changes rapidly within a single visit.
We implement Thompson Sampling, LinUCB, and neural bandit models that balance exploiting known preferences with exploring new items — continuously learning from real-time user feedback. This prevents filter bubbles, supports new item discovery, and directly optimises business metrics like revenue or watch time.
We integrate structured knowledge graphs — product taxonomies, entity relationships, clinical ontologies — into recommendation models using KGCN, KGAT, and RippleNet. This enables semantic reasoning beyond interaction data alone, dramatically improving cold-start performance and cross-domain transfer.
Our Delivery Process
A rigorous five-step process that transforms user behaviour data into deployed recommendation engines — with offline evaluation and A/B gating before every production release.
We audit every available signal — explicit ratings, implicit clicks, dwell time, purchases, search queries, and social signals — and construct comprehensive user and item entity models. Data freshness, sparsity, and interaction distribution are profiled to determine which algorithmic approach will perform best for your specific domain.
Raw interaction logs are transformed into dense representation vectors that capture both user intent and item semantics. We construct user embeddings from behavioural sequences, item embeddings from content and metadata, and context features — time of day, device, location, session intent — that modulate recommendations in real time.
Multiple candidate architectures are trained — matrix factorisation baselines, sequential models, hybrid networks — and compared under rigorous temporal hold-out evaluation. We measure Precision@K, NDCG, MRR, and coverage to select the model that maximises engagement-relevant metrics, not just accuracy on historical data.
No recommendation model goes to full production without online validation. We design statistically rigorous A/B experiments — with proper traffic allocation, guardrail metrics, and novelty effect controls — that measure real user engagement uplifts. Shadow mode deployment lets us observe candidate model behaviour safely before any traffic switches over.
We deploy recommendation models behind low-latency APIs — typically sub-50ms p99 — using ANN vector search for candidate retrieval and lightweight re-ranking models. Continuous ingestion of new interaction events keeps user profiles fresh, while automated retraining pipelines retrain the full model on configurable schedules, ensuring recommendations never go stale.
Real-World Impact
Production recommendation engines across e-commerce, media, finance, and education — each delivering measurable engagement and revenue lift from day one.
Core Challenge
Online retailers with catalogues of millions of SKUs struggle to surface relevant products to each shopper — defaulting to bestseller lists that ignore individual intent. Most customers abandon without finding what they need, and cross-sell opportunities are systematically missed because the discovery surface is generic.
Who Benefits
E-commerce platforms, marketplace operators, and D2C brands seeking AI-driven product discovery — from homepage personalisation and similar-item widgets to checkout cross-sell and post-purchase next-purchase prediction.
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Streaming platforms with thousands of titles see users churn when they cannot quickly find content matching their current mood and context. Generic trending-based surfaces drive short-term plays but reduce long-term retention — users leave when the platform feels like it doesn't know them.
Who Benefits
Video streaming platforms, OTT providers, and content networks that need personalised carousels, thumbnail optimisation, and watch-next predictions — across logged-in and anonymous users — to maximise completion rates and subscription retention.
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Banks and wealth platforms struggle to match complex financial products — investment funds, insurance policies, credit products — to each customer's risk profile, life stage, and financial goals. Generic one-size campaigns have low conversion, while over-personalisation raises compliance and mis-selling risks that require careful model governance.
Who Benefits
Retail banks, neo-banks, wealth management platforms, and insurance providers seeking compliant, explainable product recommendation engines that balance conversion optimisation with regulatory fairness requirements and responsible AI guardrails.
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Online learning platforms have vast course libraries but high learner drop-off — students fail to find content at the right difficulty level and relevant to their career goals. Generic course lists overwhelm learners and ignore prerequisite sequences, causing frustration and platform abandonment before learning objectives are achieved.
Who Benefits
EdTech platforms, corporate L&D systems, and professional certification providers that need personalised learning journey recommendations — mapping each learner's current skill gaps to the most effective next content step using knowledge graphs and mastery tracking.
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Purpose-built frameworks, vector databases, and serving infrastructure — chosen for personalisation at scale with sub-50ms latency guarantees.
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