How Metal AI Built an Agent-Driven Intelligence Platform on Vespa Cloud

“95% of our retrieval is done by AI agents.” - Sergio Prada, Co-Founder & CTO, Metal Metal needed a retrieval foundation that could evolve as fast as their product, without hitting a wall. Introduction Private equity firms manage vast amounts of unstructured data, including deal documents, expert call transcripts, financial statements, CRM records, and more. The challenge isn’t simply accessing th