Microgrant Request: Semantic Memory Upgrade for ENTAERA (TF-IDF → Embeddings)

[SaurabhCodesAI]

Hi everyone 👋,

I’m Saurabh Pareek, the maintainer of ENTAERA, an open source AI agent system built to help developers learn real multi provider orchestration, memory systems, async patterns, and fallback logic without relying on heavy frameworks.

Over six months, I integrated:

Ollama (local)

Google Gemini

Perplexity

Azure OpenAI
into a single async fallback chain with a TF-IDF memory layer and keyword based routing.

The next major upgrade is replacing TF-IDF with semantic embeddings (sentence-transformers + FAISS) to significantly improve context retrieval accuracy.

Why I’m Requesting a Microgrant

Upgrading the memory layer requires:

API credits for testing embeddings against providers

Cloud hosting for a public demo

Time to implement vector storage + migration path

Benchmarking old vs new retrieval

Documentation + community guides

This is realistic, focused work that will make ENTAERA much more useful for learners and contributors.

Requested Amount: $400
Budget Breakdown

$120 → API credits (Gemini Pro + Perplexity testing)

$80 → Cloud hosting (3 months demo)

$200 → Development time (open source rate)

Deliverables (8–10 weeks)

Implement semantic embedding memory layer

Add FAISS vector storage

Provide benchmarks (TF-IDF vs embeddings)

Release v0.2.0 with documentation

Deploy live demo

Write migration guide for contributors

Why This Matters

ENTAERA is intentionally educational.
It’s not an enterprise agent framework it's a transparent, readable Python codebase that shows how AI agents actually work.

Many developers want to learn:

multi-LLM orchestration

async fallback logic

memory mechanisms

routing strategies

…but most tools hide these details.
This project makes them visible.

A microgrant would help me complete the most important upgrade so others can learn from a better system.

Thank you for considering this!
Happy to answer any questions, share architecture details, or explain the roadmap further.

Saurabh Pareek (@SaurabhCodesAI)
Maintainer, ENTAERA