diff --git a/.jules/bolt.md b/.jules/bolt.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..56b824b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.jules/bolt.md
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+## 2026-04-05 - Concurrent multi-repo search\n**Learning:** Sequential async operations in loops (e.g., `for repo in repos: await search(repo)`) create significant linear latency bottlenecks in retrieval pipelines.\n**Action:** Use `asyncio.gather` combined with list flattening to parallelize these calls, reducing multi-repo search latency to the duration of the single slowest namespace query.
diff --git a/src/pipelines/code_retrieval.py b/src/pipelines/code_retrieval.py
index 69e4abc..08e4af2 100644
--- a/src/pipelines/code_retrieval.py
+++ b/src/pipelines/code_retrieval.py
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@
 
 from __future__ import annotations
 
+import asyncio
 import logging
 from typing import Any, Callable, Dict, List, Optional
 
@@ -37,7 +38,6 @@
 from src.scanner.code_store import CodeStore
 from src.schemas.code import (
     annotations_namespace,
-    directories_namespace,
     files_namespace,
     snippets_namespace,
     symbols_namespace,
@@ -589,14 +589,19 @@ async def _search_symbols(
     ) -> List[SourceRecord]:
         if not repo:
             logger.warning("search_symbols called without repo — searching all repos")
-            results = []
-            for r in self.repos:
-                results.extend(await self._search_namespace(
+            tasks = [
+                self._search_namespace(
                     namespace=symbols_namespace(self.org_id, r),
                     query=query,
                     domain="symbol",
                     top_k=top_k,
-                ))
+                )
+                for r in self.repos
+            ]
+
+            # Execute concurrently and flatten results
+            results_list = await asyncio.gather(*tasks)
+            results = [item for sublist in results_list for item in sublist]
             return results[:top_k]
 
         return await self._search_namespace(
@@ -612,14 +617,19 @@ async def _search_files(
         self, query: str, repo: str, top_k: int = 10,
     ) -> List[SourceRecord]:
         if not repo:
-            results = []
-            for r in self.repos:
-                results.extend(await self._search_namespace(
+            tasks = [
+                self._search_namespace(
                     namespace=files_namespace(self.org_id, r),
                     query=query,
                     domain="file",
                     top_k=top_k,
-                ))
+                )
+                for r in self.repos
+            ]
+
+            # Execute concurrently and flatten results
+            results_list = await asyncio.gather(*tasks)
+            results = [item for sublist in results_list for item in sublist]
             return results[:top_k]
 
         return await self._search_namespace(