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Retrieval is plumbing.

Why the interesting work in a legal-review copilot was everything that happened before the model saw the prompt.

By — Blazen LabsRead — 11 minDate — May 2026

A draft note on the legal-review engagement — retrieval quality dominated output quality. The rest of the system was plumbing in the best sense of the word. Publishing this properly in early May.

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