'Gold In, Gold Out': Small Specialized Models, Ensembles and the Technical Philosophy Behind the Answers

OpenEvidence's engineering identity started with a 2023 best-paper award arguing small in-domain models beat giant general ones, and grew into an ensemble of retrieval and ranking models trained only on peer-reviewed literature. This module explains the architecture philosophy, the citation-first product rules, and the 2026 model family so you can talk shop credibly.