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**Date:** 2026-07-27
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**Status:** 🟢 **Decided**
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**Decision Owner:** Amadou
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**People Involved:** Amadou, Mohammed B
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## Context
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New policy is forcing us to look at Canadian alternatives first. They needed to justify if they were American or not. If American and no employees in Canada, then I must submit an exception for this.
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## Problem
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Determine whether the procurement requirements and ongoing cost of Algolia justify replacing it with an alternative search platform.
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Replacing Algolia would affect multiple websites and require significant integration work, including a review and reimplementation of the synchronization between Directus and Algolia.
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## Options Considered
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### Option 1
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**Description:** Leaving them
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**Pros:** Could probably be cheaper using services like mielesearch or typesense
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**Cons:** Very expensive on integration of all websites and full review of the sync code between Directus and Algolia
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### Option 2
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**Description:** Stay with them
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**Pros:** Nothing changes
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**Cons:** Still expensive.
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## Decision
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What did we decide?
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Decision is to stay with Algolia
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## Why
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Why was this option chosen? Cheaper long term and less disruptive
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## Risks / Trade-offs
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What are we accepting by making this decision?
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- We continue accepting Algolia's current recurring cost.
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- We may need to maintain a procurement exception.
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- This decision delays exploring potentially cheaper alternatives.
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## Next Steps
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- [ ]
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## Outcome
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_To be completed later._
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What actually happened after the decision? Keeping the same stability in place. No need to redo and force a new system.
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## Lessons Learned
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What would I do differently next time? N/A
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## Related
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- [[Algolia - 2024-2026]] |