Colin VanLang

Colin is a product engineer at Sierra. Previously, he led engineering teams at Watershed, Lattice, and Dropbox. He studied Structural Engineering at Stanford University.

Posts by Colin VanLang

Meet Linnaeus and Darwin: Search models that drive higher resolution rates

Our purpose-built retrieval and reranking models outperform off-the-shelf ones, driving up to 16 percentage point improvements in resolution rates.

3 April 2026

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