---
title: "Why Latent Space Isn't Enough — and What We're Building Instead"
description: "Everyone's talking about the next generation of Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) platforms. Latent Space is one of the most polished contenders, offering streamlined tools for building LLM-powered apps. But here's the problem: RAG as we know it is incomplete."
date: "2025-02-25"
publishDate: "2025-02-25T10:00:00.000Z"
author:
  name: "Anthony Rawlins"
  role: "CEO & Founder, CHORUS Services"
tags:
  - "Retrieval Augmented Generation"
  - "Gen AI"
  - "rag"
featured: false
---

**The Latent Space Value Proposition**
Latent Space provides a developer-friendly way to stitch together embeddings, retrieval, and workflows. If you’re building a chatbot or a knowledge assistant, it helps you get to “Hello World” quickly. Think of it as an **accelerator for app developers**.

**The Limits**
But once you go beyond prototypes, some cracks show:

* Context is retrieved, but it isn’t structured in a reproducible or queryable way.
* Temporal information — what was true *when* — isn’t captured.
* Justifications for why something was retrieved are opaque.
* Context doesn’t move fluidly between agents; it’s app-bound.

**What We’re Doing Differently**
Our approach (Chorus + BZZZ + UCXL) starts from a different premise: **context isn’t an app feature, it’s infrastructure**.

* We treat knowledge like an addressable space, not just an embedding lookup.
* Temporal navigation is first-class, so you can ask not only “what’s true” but “what was true last week” or “what changed between versions.”
* Provenance is baked in: retrieval comes with citations and justifications.
* And most importantly: our system isn’t designed for a single app. It’s designed for a network of agents to securely share, query, and evolve context.

**Conclusion**
Latent Space is a great product for teams shipping today’s RAG-powered apps. But if you want to build **tomorrow’s distributed AI ecosystems**, you need infrastructure that goes beyond RAG. That’s what we’re building.
Why Latent Space Isn’t Enough — and What We’re Building Instead