diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 3a5c35a..d33c70f 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -313,6 +313,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "ignore",
  "indicatif",
  "predicates",
+ "rayon",
  "regex",
  "reqwest",
  "rusqlite",
@@ -1400,6 +1401,26 @@ dependencies = [
  "rand_core",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "rayon"
+version = "1.12.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "fb39b166781f92d482534ef4b4b1b2568f42613b53e5b6c160e24cfbfa30926d"
+dependencies = [
+ "either",
+ "rayon-core",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "rayon-core"
+version = "1.13.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "22e18b0f0062d30d4230b2e85ff77fdfe4326feb054b9783a3460d8435c8ab91"
+dependencies = [
+ "crossbeam-deque",
+ "crossbeam-utils",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "redox_users"
 version = "0.5.2"
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 6308393..fbdd74a 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -45,6 +45,9 @@ dirs = "6"
 glob = "0.3"
 ignore = "0.4"
 
+# Parallelism (cold-rebuild file parsing)
+rayon = "1"
+
 # Error handling
 anyhow = "1"
 which = "7"
diff --git a/src/index/brain.rs b/src/index/brain.rs
index e1bbfc5..db9d3b2 100644
--- a/src/index/brain.rs
+++ b/src/index/brain.rs
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ use crate::embed::tokens::embed_code;
 use crate::index::symbols::SymbolQuery;
 use crate::index::vector::{CodeVectorIndex, DEFAULT_DIMS, cosine_distance_to_similarity};
 use anyhow::{Context, Result};
+use rayon::prelude::*;
 use rusqlite::Connection;
 use std::collections::{HashMap, HashSet};
 use std::sync::{LazyLock, RwLock};
@@ -78,23 +79,41 @@ pub fn embed_project(conn: &Connection, project_id: i64) -> Result<usize> {
         .filter_map(|r| r.ok())
         .collect();
 
+    // ── Parallel embedding computation (Rayon) ─────────────────────────
+    // embed_code is pure + CPU-bound. usearch insert is serial.
+    let t_compute = std::time::Instant::now();
+    let embedded: Vec<(i64, Vec<f32>)> = rows
+        .par_iter()
+        .map(|(sym_id, name, _kind, signature)| {
+            let text = if signature.is_empty() || signature == name {
+                name.clone()
+            } else {
+                format!("{name} {signature}")
+            };
+            let embedding = embed_code(&text);
+            let vec: Vec<f32> = embedding.as_slice().iter().map(|&v| v as f32).collect();
+            (*sym_id, vec)
+        })
+        .collect();
+    let compute_ms = t_compute.elapsed().as_millis();
+
+    // ── Serial usearch insert ────────────────────────────────────────
+    let t_insert = std::time::Instant::now();
     let mut count = 0;
-    let mut new_ids: HashSet<i64> = HashSet::with_capacity(rows.len());
-    for (sym_id, name, _kind, signature) in &rows {
-        let text = if signature.is_empty() || signature == name {
-            name.clone()
-        } else {
-            format!("{name} {signature}")
-        };
-
-        let embedding = embed_code(&text);
-        let vec: Vec<f32> = embedding.as_slice().iter().map(|&v| v as f32).collect();
-
-        vi.insert(*sym_id, &vec)
-            .context("insert symbol embedding")?;
+    let mut new_ids: HashSet<i64> = HashSet::with_capacity(embedded.len());
+    for (sym_id, vec) in &embedded {
+        vi.insert(*sym_id, vec).context("insert symbol embedding")?;
         new_ids.insert(*sym_id);
         count += 1;
     }
+    let insert_ms = t_insert.elapsed().as_millis();
+
+    tracing::debug!(
+        "embed_compute={}ms, usearch_insert={}ms, symbols={}",
+        compute_ms,
+        insert_ms,
+        count
+    );
 
     if vi.is_dirty() {
         vi.save().context("save vector index")?;
diff --git a/src/index/mod.rs b/src/index/mod.rs
index 31801a2..4d9f1aa 100644
--- a/src/index/mod.rs
+++ b/src/index/mod.rs
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ pub mod vector;
 use std::collections::HashMap;
 use std::path::Path;
 
+use rayon::prelude::*;
 use rusqlite::Connection;
 #[cfg(test)]
 use sha2::{Digest, Sha256};
@@ -322,21 +323,37 @@ fn index_project_with_id(
     }
 
     if !files_to_index.is_empty() {
-        // Single transaction for ALL files — eliminates per-file fsync
+        // ── Phase 1: Parallel extraction (CPU-bound tree-sitter + regex) ───
+        // Rayon par_iter distributes file parsing across all CPU cores.
+        // extract_all is CPU-bound (~4ms/file) and fully thread-safe.
+        let t_extract = std::time::Instant::now();
+        let extracted_files: Vec<(String, extract::ExtractedAll, String, String)> = files_to_index
+            .par_iter()
+            .map(|(rel_str, content, language, cheap_fp)| {
+                let extracted = extract::extract_all(content, language, rel_str);
+                (
+                    rel_str.clone(),
+                    extracted,
+                    language.clone(),
+                    cheap_fp.clone(),
+                )
+            })
+            .collect();
+        let extract_ms = t_extract.elapsed().as_millis();
+
+        // ── Phase 2: Serial SQLite writes (single transaction) ─────────
+        let t_db = std::time::Instant::now();
         let tx = conn.unchecked_transaction()?;
 
         // Disable FTS5 triggers during bulk insert to avoid 3x write amplification.
-        // For a content-sync FTS5 table (content='symbols'), the correct bulk-load
-        // sequence is: drop triggers → insert rows → 'rebuild' command → recreate triggers.
         tx.execute_batch(
             "DROP TRIGGER IF EXISTS symbols_fts_insert;\
              DROP TRIGGER IF EXISTS symbols_fts_delete;\
              DROP TRIGGER IF EXISTS symbols_fts_update;",
         )?;
 
-        for (rel_str, content, language, cheap_fp) in &files_to_index {
-            let extracted = extract::extract_all(content, language, rel_str);
-            match index_file_in_tx(&tx, project_id, rel_str, cheap_fp, language, &extracted) {
+        for (rel_str, extracted, language, cheap_fp) in &extracted_files {
+            match index_file_in_tx(&tx, project_id, rel_str, cheap_fp, language, extracted) {
                 Ok(n) => {
                     stats.files_indexed += 1;
                     stats.symbols_indexed += n;
@@ -382,6 +399,12 @@ fn index_project_with_id(
         )?;
 
         tx.commit()?;
+        tracing::debug!(
+            "extract={}ms (rayon), db={}ms, files={}",
+            extract_ms,
+            t_db.elapsed().as_millis(),
+            files_to_index.len()
+        );
     }
 
     // Update project's last_indexed timestamp