diff --git a/services/rag-api/core/settings.py b/services/rag-api/core/settings.py
index 67e53b3..7255112 100644
--- a/services/rag-api/core/settings.py
+++ b/services/rag-api/core/settings.py
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ class Settings(BaseSettings):
 
     # Search defaults
     search_top_k: int = 10
-    search_threshold: float = 0.65
+    search_threshold: float = 0.01  # Low threshold - embeddings seem normalized differently
     rerank_enabled: bool = False
 
     # CORS (comma-separated origins)