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Algolia in diligence: the questions you’ll get | Low-Code CTO
A tight list of the questions that come up (cost, ownership, relevance drift, outage blast radius) and the narrative that keeps it defensible.
The top 5 diligence questions (when Algolia is on the critical path)
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What does search cost at today’s volume—and at 3×?
- Show: current monthly spend, query volume, and the pricing lever you’re most exposed to.
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Who owns relevance—and how do changes ship?
- The investor risk is “only one person can tune this.” Define ownership + a repeatable change process.
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What happens when relevance drifts?
- What signals tell you search got worse (CTR, zero-result rate, conversions)? How quickly do you notice?
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What’s the outage blast radius?
- If Algolia is down, what breaks? What’s the degraded experience? What does your fallback look like?
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How do you log and audit search behavior?
- Can you explain: top queries, failed queries, and the product changes you made because of search data?
If you can answer these cleanly, Algolia reads as intentional infrastructure instead of “a magic box we hope keeps working.”