diff --git a/rust/worker/src/execution/orchestration/hnsw.rs b/rust/worker/src/execution/orchestration/hnsw.rs
index d8d4d14fcda..97c0f3512d4 100644
--- a/rust/worker/src/execution/orchestration/hnsw.rs
+++ b/rust/worker/src/execution/orchestration/hnsw.rs
@@ -1,6 +1,12 @@
 use super::super::operator::{wrap, TaskMessage};
 use super::super::operators::pull_log::{PullLogsInput, PullLogsOperator, PullLogsOutput};
+use crate::distance;
+use crate::distance::DistanceFunction;
 use crate::errors::ChromaError;
+use crate::execution::operators::brute_force_knn::{
+    BruteForceKnnOperator, BruteForceKnnOperatorInput, BruteForceKnnOperatorOutput,
+    BruteForceKnnOperatorResult,
+};
 use crate::execution::operators::pull_log::PullLogsResult;
 use crate::sysdb::sysdb::SysDb;
 use crate::system::System;
@@ -12,7 +18,6 @@ use crate::{
 use async_trait::async_trait;
 use num_bigint::BigInt;
 use std::fmt::Debug;
-use std::fmt::Formatter;
 use std::time::{SystemTime, UNIX_EPOCH};
 use uuid::Uuid;
 
@@ -118,7 +123,7 @@ impl HnswQueryOrchestrator {
         let end_timestamp = SystemTime::now().duration_since(UNIX_EPOCH);
         let end_timestamp = match end_timestamp {
             // TODO: change protobuf definition to use u64 instead of i64
-            Ok(end_timestamp) => end_timestamp.as_nanos() as i64,
+            Ok(end_timestamp) => end_timestamp.as_secs() as i64,
             Err(e) => {
                 // Log an error and reply + return
                 return;
@@ -173,8 +178,45 @@ impl Handler<PullLogsResult> for HnswQueryOrchestrator {
         self.state = ExecutionState::Dedupe;
 
         // TODO: implement the remaining state transitions and operators
-        // This is an example of the final state transition and result
+        // TODO: don't need all this cloning and data shuffling, once we land the chunk abstraction
+        let mut dataset = Vec::new();
+        match message {
+            Ok(logs) => {
+                for log in logs.logs().iter() {
+                    // TODO: only adds have embeddings, unwrap is fine for now
+                    dataset.push(log.embedding.clone().unwrap());
+                }
+                let bf_input = BruteForceKnnOperatorInput {
+                    data: dataset,
+                    query: self.query_vectors[0].clone(),
+                    k: self.k as usize,
+                    distance_metric: DistanceFunction::Euclidean,
+                };
+                let operator = Box::new(BruteForceKnnOperator {});
+                let task = wrap(operator, bf_input, ctx.sender.as_receiver());
+                match self.dispatcher.send(task).await {
+                    Ok(_) => (),
+                    Err(e) => {
+                        // TODO: log an error and reply to caller
+                    }
+                }
+            }
+            Err(e) => {
+                // Log an error
+                return;
+            }
+        }
+    }
+}
 
+#[async_trait]
+impl Handler<BruteForceKnnOperatorResult> for HnswQueryOrchestrator {
+    async fn handle(
+        &mut self,
+        message: BruteForceKnnOperatorResult,
+        ctx: &crate::system::ComponentContext<HnswQueryOrchestrator>,
+    ) {
+        // This is an example of the final state transition and result
         let result_channel = match self.result_channel.take() {
             Some(tx) => tx,
             None => {
@@ -184,18 +226,29 @@ impl Handler<PullLogsResult> for HnswQueryOrchestrator {
         };
 
         match message {
-            Ok(logs) => {
-                // TODO: remove this after debugging
-                println!("Received logs: {:?}", logs);
-                let _ = result_channel.send(Ok(vec![vec![VectorQueryResult {
-                    id: "abc".to_string(),
-                    seq_id: BigInt::from(0),
-                    distance: 0.0,
-                    vector: Some(vec![0.0, 0.0, 0.0]),
-                }]]));
+            Ok(output) => {
+                let mut result = Vec::new();
+                let mut query_results = Vec::new();
+                for (index, distance) in output.indices.iter().zip(output.distances.iter()) {
+                    let query_result = VectorQueryResult {
+                        id: index.to_string(),
+                        seq_id: BigInt::from(0),
+                        distance: *distance,
+                        vector: None,
+                    };
+                    query_results.push(query_result);
+                }
+                result.push(query_results);
+
+                match result_channel.send(Ok(result)) {
+                    Ok(_) => (),
+                    Err(e) => {
+                        // Log an error
+                    }
+                }
             }
-            Err(e) => {
-                let _ = result_channel.send(Err(Box::new(e)));
+            Err(_) => {
+                // Log an error
             }
         }
     }