diff --git a/packages/shared/src/config/constants.js b/packages/shared/src/config/constants.js
index 3a8f9c0..b0c285f 100644
--- a/packages/shared/src/config/constants.js
+++ b/packages/shared/src/config/constants.js
@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ const ENTITIES = {
 const RETRIEVAL = {
     RRF_K:              60,     // Reciprocal Rank Fusion smoothing constant, softens rank-1 advantage, not exposed in settings
     SEMANTIC_WEIGHT:    1.0,    // Weight applied to semantic (QDrant) results
-    KEYWORD_WEIGHT:     0,    // Weight applied to keyword (SQLite) results, 0 = disables, set >0 to enable and tune balance between semantic vs keyword matches
+    KEYWORD_WEIGHT:     0.5,    // Weight applied to keyword (SQLite) results, 0 = disables, set >0 to enable and tune balance between semantic vs keyword matches
 }
 
 module.exports = {