ONE PLATFORM FOR EVERY RECOMMENDER

NSL sits between your product and the messy world of recommendation models. Understand your audience, test what works, see why recommendations happen and control what gets shown.

Train leading architectures on your own data, switch models or embedding providers without changing your integration, and safely promote better models when they prove themselves.

The control layer for recommendations

Train and compare different architectures, bring your own embeddings, inspect user interests and recommendation logic, then safely promote, roll back or override models without changing your application integration.

GET /v1/recommendationsOne integration
NeuronSearchLab
  • Collaborativelive
  • Content-basedlive
  • Sequentiallive
  • Graphlive
  • Generativelive

Deployed across media, commerce, and publishing

  • Streaming
  • Marketplace
  • Publishing
  • Retail media
  • Music
  • Games
  • Classifieds
  • News
  • Podcasts
  • Grocery
  • Fashion
  • Learning

The control layer

Understand, test, explain, control

Audience map

3 communities
  • Long-form documentary
  • Weeknight comedy
  • Live sport

The control layer

NSL does not replace the recommender - it is what sits above it. Every leading architecture trained on your own data and compared on the same footing, the winner promoted only while it keeps winning, and one API in front of all of it that does not change when the model underneath does.

  • Understand

    A living map of your audience

    Users, content, interests and behavioural clusters in one space you can actually look at. The communities in your data are found rather than defined, so the groups you did not know to look for turn up beside the ones you did.

    Audience map

    3 communities
    • Long-form documentary
    • Weeknight comedy
    • Live sport
  • Interests that change over time

    Follow one person's interests as they move, and tell a settled taste apart from a single unusual session. Fragmented signals become one profile that keeps up - not an average of everything they have ever done.

    Interests · user u_41902

    12 weeks
    • Established tasteNature documentary
    • This sessionMotorsport · 41 min

    One odd evening does not rewrite a profile

  • Deep understanding of the content

    Multimodal embeddings - TwelveLabs' Marengo, OpenAI, or your own - let ranking read scenes, actions, dialogue, sound, objects and themes rather than titles and tags. A new item can be placed the day it is published, with no interaction history at all.

    Content · ep_4417

    42:18 · published today
    • Scenecoastal cliff · dusk
    • Actionclimbing, rope work
    • Dialogueexpedition planning
    • Soundwind, no score
    • Objectsharness, sea, gull
    EmbeddingsTwelveLabs · MarengoOpenAIYour own

    Rankable before it has a single view

  • Test

    The best model for your data

    Collaborative, content-based, sequential, graph and generative recommenders, trained on your actual behaviour and evaluated the same way on the same split. Replayed over your history first, and scored towards your outcome - watch time, completion, retention, purchases - not a fixed list of generic signals.

    Candidates · your data

    Optimising watch time
    • Sequentialpromoted · 0.92
    • Graph0.86
    • Two-tower0.81
    • Generative0.77
    • Content-based0.68
    • Collaborative0.61

    No architecture wins every catalogue · this one wins yours

  • Automated promotion and rollback

    A candidate only goes live when it beats the incumbent on the agreed metrics and stays inside your quality, diversity, latency and cost guardrails. Shadow first, then a canary on a slice of traffic, with automatic rollback if the live numbers move the wrong way.

    Release · sequential v5

    Day 2 of 3
    • Shadow24h · no traffic served
    • Canary5% of homepage_rail
    • Promoteheld · awaiting day 3
    Relevance+4.8%
    Diversity−0.4%
    p95 latency41 ms
    Cost / 1k+2%

    Rolls back on its own if live performance drops

  • Explain

    A reason attached to every result

    Any position decomposes into the interests, interactions, similarities and rules that produced it, with confidence attached. When a feed changes, see what changed it - and where the candidate models disagree about the same user.

    Why · position 2

    ep_5120 · confidence 0.81
    • Watched 3 by this director0.34
    • Interest · long-form documentary0.27
    • Similar to ep_44170.19
    • Rule · boost new-season0.12
    • Popularity0.08
    Candidates disagreesequential 2 · graph 7 · two-tower 11

    The same question asked of every model in the running

  • Control

    The final say over what is shown

    Boost, suppress, exclude, pin, guarantee or quota content, and set how hard an editorial decision pushes against personalisation. Simulate the change against real traffic before it ships, so exposure across the catalogue is a decision rather than a side effect.

    Control · homepage_rail

    4 rules
    • Ifstock = 0exclude
    • Iftag = new-seasonboost ×1.4
    • Ifcreator = in-houseguarantee 2
    • Ifmargin < 8%suppress
    Editorial override0.35 of ranking

    Simulated against real traffic before it ships

Ranking that works on behalf of catalogues

Can your recommender do this?

Not a different recommender - the layer above whichever one you run.

CapabilityWith NSLOff-the-shelf engine

Content it can see

Scenes, dialogue, sound and objects read from the item itself, so a new one is rankable before it has a single view.

Model selection

Collaborative, content-based, sequential, graph and generative architectures trained on your behaviour and compared like for like, rather than one fixed model for every catalogue.

Safe releases

Shadow, then canary, then promotion - and automatic rollback the moment live performance drops.

Editorial control

Boost, suppress, pin or guarantee at request time, with the strength of the override set by you.

A traceable result

Every position decomposed into the interests, similarities and rules that produced it, with confidence attached and model disagreement shown.

Serving, not reporting

Built for the request path

Recommendations need to arrive while the experience is still happening. NSL is designed for low-latency serving, with behavioural signals continuously feeding back into what a user sees next.

One API can sit behind your homepage, feed, search, related content, product pages or any other recommendation surface - without your application needing to know which model, embedding provider or ranking pipeline is running underneath.

Respond in real time

Use live session behaviour to adjust ranking while the user is still browsing, watching or shopping.

One interface everywhere

The same recommendation contract across products, surfaces and model architectures.

Change the model, not your code

Rules resolve at request time and models sit behind the same call, so what surfaces can change with no retrain, redeploy or release on your side.

Adaptive relevance, in the open

Most engines guess.
NSL measures.

This sandbox is a real feed. A cursor hovers, adds to cart, and favourites items, emitting weak and strong signals that re-rank the grid as they land. Switch between two users to see the same catalogue resolve to two different front pages.

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Personalised home
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Operate the whole system in natural language

An MCP server over the same control surface the console uses. An AI operator can inspect analytics and catalogue data, or work with pipelines, rules and training runs directly - no separate, weaker API to fall back on.

Read the docs

Recommender Performance Index · v3.1

Put your catalogue to work

23 systems, scored against a frozen field on the same datasets and the same budget. Every number below is reproducible, and the ones we did not measure ourselves say so.

Find the next one

Eight histories.
One next item each.

Every clue is what somebody did. The answer is what they reached for next, hidden in the grid, and the history is enough to work it out: the rest of a director’s run, the writer behind the last three, the tool the previous purchases were building towards. Drag across a word to claim it, or mark its first letter and its last.

0 of 8 found
  • Watched

    Breaking Bad · Better Call Saul (8)

  • Watched

    Arrival · Blade Runner 2049 · Sicario (4)

  • Watched

    Black Mirror · Devs · Mr. Robot (9)

  • Watched

    Planet Earth · Blue Planet II · Frozen Planet (9)

  • Purchased

    Espresso machine · Burr grinder · Milk jug (6)

  • Watched

    The Wire · Generation Kill · Show Me a Hero (5)

  • Read

    Dune · Neuromancer · Snow Crash (8)

  • Purchased

    Cast-iron skillet · Carbon steel chef's knife · Dutch oven (9)

Running at scale across media, commerce, and publishing

Index frozen 06 September 2026 · 23 systems measured