diff --git a/src/transform-sdk/go/transform/ai/model.go b/src/transform-sdk/go/transform/ai/model.go
index 7686053cc3960..8e1187fe3e978 100644
--- a/src/transform-sdk/go/transform/ai/model.go
+++ b/src/transform-sdk/go/transform/ai/model.go
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ func LoadLargeLanguageModel(m HuggingFaceModel) (*LargeLanguageModel, error) {
 }
 
 // LoadEmbeddingsModel from hugging face
-func LoadEmbeddingsModel(m HuggingFaceModel) (*LargeLanguageModel, error) {
+func LoadEmbeddingsModel(m HuggingFaceModel) (*EmbeddingsModel, error) {
 	r := loadHfEmbeddings(
 		unsafe.Pointer(unsafe.StringData(m.Repo)),
 		int32(len(m.Repo)),
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ func LoadEmbeddingsModel(m HuggingFaceModel) (*LargeLanguageModel, error) {
 	if r < 0 {
 		return nil, errors.New("unable to load model, errorcode: " + strconv.Itoa(int(r)))
 	}
-	return &LargeLanguageModel{modelHandle(r)}, nil
+	return &EmbeddingsModel{modelHandle(r)}, nil
 }
 
 // Wrapper around LLM
diff --git a/src/transform-sdk/go/transform/internal/testdata/build_all.sh b/src/transform-sdk/go/transform/internal/testdata/build_all.sh
index f5202d4e99bce..f0718322088ac 100755
--- a/src/transform-sdk/go/transform/internal/testdata/build_all.sh
+++ b/src/transform-sdk/go/transform/internal/testdata/build_all.sh
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ PKGS=(
   wasi
   dynamic
   llm-prompt-forward
+  make-embeddings
 )
 
 for PKG in "${PKGS[@]}"; do
diff --git a/src/transform-sdk/go/transform/internal/testdata/make-embeddings/transform.go b/src/transform-sdk/go/transform/internal/testdata/make-embeddings/transform.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..0b330d5d412cb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/transform-sdk/go/transform/internal/testdata/make-embeddings/transform.go
@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+package main
+
+import (
+	"encoding/json"
+	"unsafe"
+
+	"github.com/redpanda-data/redpanda/src/transform-sdk/go/transform"
+	"github.com/redpanda-data/redpanda/src/transform-sdk/go/transform/ai"
+)
+
+var model *ai.EmbeddingsModel
+
+func main() {
+	m, err := ai.LoadEmbeddingsModel(ai.HuggingFaceModel{
+		Repo: "leliuga/all-MiniLM-L12-v2-GGUF",
+		File: "all-MiniLM-L12-v2.Q8_0.gguf",
+	})
+	if err != nil {
+		panic(err)
+	}
+	model = m
+	transform.OnRecordWritten(myTransform)
+}
+
+func myTransform(e transform.WriteEvent, w transform.RecordWriter) error {
+	// zero copy compute embeddings
+	val := e.Record().Value
+	str := unsafe.String(&val[0], len(val))
+	resp, err := model.ComputeEmbeddings(str)
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	// Turn the embeddings into JSON
+	b, err := json.Marshal(resp)
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	return w.Write(transform.Record{
+		Key:   e.Record().Key,
+		Value: b,
+	})
+}