diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 959825d..37523aa 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -335,15 +335,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "tokio",
 ]
 
-[[package]]
-name = "async-convert"
-version = "1.0.0"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "6d416feee97712e43152cd42874de162b8f9b77295b1c85e5d92725cc8310bae"
-dependencies = [
- "async-trait",
-]
-
 [[package]]
 name = "async-executor"
 version = "1.13.2"
@@ -431,30 +422,41 @@ dependencies = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "async-openai"
-version = "0.24.1"
+version = "0.29.3"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "c6db3286b4f52b6556ac5208fb575d035eca61a2bf40d7e75d1db2733ffc599f"
+checksum = "d4fc47ec9e669d562e0755f59e1976d157546910e403f3c2da856d0a4d3cdc07"
 dependencies = [
- "async-convert",
+ "async-openai-macros",
  "backoff",
  "base64 0.22.1",
  "bytes",
  "derive_builder",
  "eventsource-stream",
  "futures",
- "rand 0.8.5",
+ "rand 0.9.1",
  "reqwest",
  "reqwest-eventsource",
  "secrecy",
  "serde",
  "serde_json",
- "thiserror 1.0.69",
+ "thiserror 2.0.12",
  "tokio",
  "tokio-stream",
  "tokio-util",
  "tracing",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "async-openai-macros"
+version = "0.1.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "0289cba6d5143bfe8251d57b4a8cac036adf158525a76533a7082ba65ec76398"
+dependencies = [
+ "proc-macro2",
+ "quote",
+ "syn 2.0.101",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "async-recursion"
 version = "1.1.1"
@@ -5011,9 +5013,9 @@ checksum = "1c107b6f4780854c8b126e228ea8869f4d7b71260f962fefb57b996b8959ba6b"
 
 [[package]]
 name = "secrecy"
-version = "0.8.0"
+version = "0.10.3"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "9bd1c54ea06cfd2f6b63219704de0b9b4f72dcc2b8fdef820be6cd799780e91e"
+checksum = "e891af845473308773346dc847b2c23ee78fe442e0472ac50e22a18a93d3ae5a"
 dependencies = [
  "serde",
  "zeroize",
diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index a2cebe1..24ca537 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ resolver = "2"
 
 [workspace.dependencies]
 anyhow = "1.0.94"
-async-openai = "0.24.1"
+async-openai = "0.29.3"
 async-stream = "0.3.6"
 async-trait = "0.1.88"
 axum-htmx = "0.7.0"
diff --git a/composite-retrieval/src/answer_retrieval.rs b/composite-retrieval/src/answer_retrieval.rs
index be705c0..64c3782 100644
--- a/composite-retrieval/src/answer_retrieval.rs
+++ b/composite-retrieval/src/answer_retrieval.rs
@@ -154,8 +154,6 @@ pub fn create_chat_request(
 
     CreateChatCompletionRequestArgs::default()
         .model(&settings.query_model)
-        .temperature(0.2)
-        .max_tokens(3048u32)
         .messages([
             ChatCompletionRequestSystemMessage::from(settings.query_system_prompt.clone()).into(),
             ChatCompletionRequestUserMessage::from(user_message).into(),
diff --git a/composite-retrieval/src/graph.rs b/composite-retrieval/src/graph.rs
index fa22ba4..24bd9ea 100644
--- a/composite-retrieval/src/graph.rs
+++ b/composite-retrieval/src/graph.rs
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 use surrealdb::Error;
-use tracing::debug;
 
 use common::storage::{db::SurrealDbClient, types::knowledge_entity::KnowledgeEntity};
 
@@ -57,8 +56,6 @@ pub async fn find_entities_by_relationship_by_id(
         entity_id
     );
 
-    debug!("{}", query);
-
     db.query(query).await?.take(0)
 }
 
diff --git a/ingestion-pipeline/src/enricher.rs b/ingestion-pipeline/src/enricher.rs
index 8eb918d..e2fc811 100644
--- a/ingestion-pipeline/src/enricher.rs
+++ b/ingestion-pipeline/src/enricher.rs
@@ -110,8 +110,6 @@ impl IngestionEnricher {
 
         let request = CreateChatCompletionRequestArgs::default()
             .model(&settings.processing_model)
-            .temperature(0.2)
-            .max_tokens(6048u32)
             .messages([
                 ChatCompletionRequestSystemMessage::from(INGRESS_ANALYSIS_SYSTEM_MESSAGE).into(),
                 ChatCompletionRequestUserMessage::from(user_message).into(),
diff --git a/ingestion-pipeline/src/utils/image_parsing.rs b/ingestion-pipeline/src/utils/image_parsing.rs
index ac97878..1b3295e 100644
--- a/ingestion-pipeline/src/utils/image_parsing.rs
+++ b/ingestion-pipeline/src/utils/image_parsing.rs
@@ -23,7 +23,6 @@ pub async fn extract_text_from_image(
 
     let request = CreateChatCompletionRequestArgs::default()
         .model(system_settings.image_processing_model)
-        .max_tokens(6400_u32)
         .messages([ChatCompletionRequestUserMessageArgs::default()
             .content(vec![
                 ChatCompletionRequestMessageContentPartTextArgs::default()
diff --git a/ingestion-pipeline/src/utils/pdf_ingestion.rs b/ingestion-pipeline/src/utils/pdf_ingestion.rs
index 62d8b57..9ee1688 100644
--- a/ingestion-pipeline/src/utils/pdf_ingestion.rs
+++ b/ingestion-pipeline/src/utils/pdf_ingestion.rs
@@ -334,12 +334,10 @@ async fn vision_markdown(
 
             let request = CreateChatCompletionRequestArgs::default()
                 .model(settings.image_processing_model.clone())
-                .temperature(0.0)
                 .messages([ChatCompletionRequestUserMessageArgs::default()
                     .content(content_parts)
                     .build()?
                     .into()])
-                .max_tokens(16400_u32)
                 .build()?;
 
             let response = client.chat().create(request).await?;