Initial commit: CI Agent competitive-intelligence monitoring app

FastAPI + Celery + Next.js + Postgres/Redis app with company monitoring,
source collection, LLM-based change analysis, enrichment, and account
security (Turnstile, escalating lockout, email verification).

apps/api/app/search/factory.py

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+"""Resolves `SEARCH_PROVIDER` to a concrete provider instance. Never
+imported directly by discovery_service - always go through
+`get_search_provider()` so swapping providers stays a one-line config
+change."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+from app.core.config import Settings, get_settings
+from app.search.base import SearchProvider
+from app.search.mock import MockSearchProvider
+
+
+def get_search_provider(settings: Settings | None = None) -> SearchProvider:
+    settings = settings or get_settings()
+
+    if settings.search_provider == "brave":
+        from app.search.brave import BraveSearchProvider
+
+        return BraveSearchProvider(settings)
+
+    return MockSearchProvider()