Product Decisions This Supports

Evaluating whether to build in-house search vs. adopt a lightweight Laravel package for model search.
Roadmap planning around PHP version upgrades: this release (1.1.0) requires PHP 8.5, which may force a platform upgrade before adoption.
Risk assessment for dependency freshness: a single-change release that only bumps the PHP requirement signals maintenance but also a narrow compatibility window.

When to Consider This Package

Your production and CI environments already run PHP 8.5 (or you are planning to upgrade imminently).
You need basic searchable behavior on Eloquent models and want a small, focused package rather than a full search engine.
You can tolerate a very new PHP baseline with limited community validation.
Look elsewhere if you are on PHP 8.4 or older, need long-term support across PHP versions, or require advanced search features (facets, ranking, typo tolerance) that likely exceed this package’s scope.

Executives: This package could accelerate search feature delivery, but only if we are ready to standardize on PHP 8.5—an upgrade that carries cost and risk.
Engineering: Version 1.1.0 is a hard compatibility break—it requires PHP 8.5. Confirm our runtime and deployment pipeline support it before committing. If not, defer adoption or evaluate alternatives.