diff --git a/deps.edn b/deps.edn
index ba45ae7..6897257 100644
--- a/deps.edn
+++ b/deps.edn
@@ -7,6 +7,10 @@
         ;; db
         com.datomic/local    {:mvn/version "1.0.291"}
 
+        ;; http client
+        clj-http/clj-http {:mvn/version "3.13.1"}
+        cheshire/cheshire {:mvn/version "5.11.0"}
+
         ;; logging
         com.taoensso/telemere {:mvn/version "1.0.0"}
 
diff --git a/src/snippets/infra/db.clj b/src/snippets/infra/db.clj
index e89dc52..260fbae 100644
--- a/src/snippets/infra/db.clj
+++ b/src/snippets/infra/db.clj
@@ -6,11 +6,6 @@
    [snippets.infra.config :as config]
    [taoensso.telemere :as t]))
 
-;; Initialize the Datomic Local client
-;; :system "dev" groups your databases in the "dev" system
-;; In production, you'd set :storage-dir to a persistent path
-;; TODO: add save file location for prod
-
 (def datomic-config (:datomic (config/get-config)))
 
 (def client (d/client (merge {:server-type :datomic-local
@@ -117,6 +112,16 @@
       (throw (ex-info "Invalid snippet entity" {:entities entities})))))
 
 ;; read
+(defn slug-to-db-id
+  "Get the database ID of a snippet given a slug."
+  [slug]
+  (let [conn (get-conn)
+        db (d/db conn)
+        query '[:find ?e
+                :in $ ?slug
+                :where [?e :snippet/slug ?slug]]]
+    (ffirst (d/q query db slug))))
+
 (defn- get-snippet-by-slug-from-db
   "Get a single snippet by its slug."
   [slug]
diff --git a/src/snippets/infra/text_embed.clj b/src/snippets/infra/text_embed.clj
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6be3143
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/snippets/infra/text_embed.clj
@@ -0,0 +1,64 @@
+(ns snippets.infra.text-embed
+  (:require [clj-http.client :as http]
+            [clojure.string :as str]
+            [snippets.infra.db :as db]
+            [snippets.infra.config]
+            [taoensso.telemere :as t]))
+
+(defn config []
+  (let [c (snippets.infra.config/get-config)]
+    (hash-map
+     :qdrant-host (get-in c [:qdrant :host])
+     :qdrant-api-key (get-in c [:qdrant :api-key]),
+     :mistral-api-key (get-in c [:mistral :api-key]))))
+
+(defn- parse
+  "Turn a snippet into a vector of strings to embed."
+  [snippet]
+  (vector
+   (:title snippet)
+   (:slug snippet)
+   (str/join "," (:tags snippet))
+   (:markdown snippet)))
+
+(defn- gen-embed
+  "Call Mistral API to generate embeddings for the given input.
+   Args:
+     input - string or vector of strings to embed
+   Returns:
+     Embedding response from Mistral API
+   Requires mistral.api-key to be configured."
+  [input]
+  (let [api-key (:mistral-api-key (config))
+        url "https://api.mistral.ai/v1/embeddings"
+        body {:model "codestral-embed"
+              :output_dimension 1536
+              :output_dtype "float"
+              :input (if (string? input) [input] input)}]
+    (http/post url
+               {:headers {"Authorization" (str "Bearer " api-key)}
+                :content-type :json
+                :form-params body
+                :cookie-store false
+                :as :json})))
+
+(defn get-embed [snippet]
+  (t/log! {:level :info :data {:slug (:slug snippet)}} "Getting embedding for snippet")
+  (let [res (gen-embed (parse snippet))
+        embed (get-in res [:body :data 0 :embedding])]
+    (if (not= (count embed) 1536)
+      (throw (ex-info "Unexpected embedding size" {:embed embed}))
+      embed)))
+
+(defn save-embed
+  "Save an embedding to Qdrant"
+  [snippet embed]
+  (let [api-key (:qdrant-api-key (config))
+        id (db/slug-to-db-id (:slug snippet))]
+    (t/log! {:level :info :data {:slug (:slug snippet) :api-key api-key :id id}} "Saving embedding for snippet")
+    (http/put  (str (:qdrant-host (config)) "/collections/snippets-dev/points")
+               {:headers {"api-key" api-key}
+                :content-type :json
+                :form-params {:points [{:id id :vector embed :payload {:slug (:slug snippet)}}]}
+                ;; :cookie-store false
+                :as :json})))
diff --git a/src/snippets/use_cases/create.clj b/src/snippets/use_cases/create.clj
index 6f0b494..33a41ba 100644
--- a/src/snippets/use_cases/create.clj
+++ b/src/snippets/use_cases/create.clj
@@ -6,4 +6,6 @@
 (defn create-snippet [{:keys [title slug markdown tags]}]
   (let [pub-date (java.util.Date.)]
     (t/log! {:level :info, :data {:title title :slug slug}} "Creating snippet")
-    (db/create-snippets [{:title title :slug slug :markdown markdown :tags tags :pub-date pub-date}])))
+    (db/create-snippets [{:title title :slug slug :markdown markdown :tags tags :pub-date pub-date}])
+    ;; TODO: caculate text embed vector
+    ))