diff --git a/src/search_filter/base_filter.py b/src/search_filter/base_filter.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..dc079b45
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/search_filter/base_filter.py
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+# Standard Packages
+from abc import ABC, abstractmethod
+from typing import List, Tuple
+
+# External Packages
+import torch
+
+
+class BaseFilter(ABC):
+    @abstractmethod
+    def load(self, *args, **kwargs):
+        pass
+
+    @abstractmethod
+    def can_filter(self, raw_query:str) -> bool:
+        pass
+
+    @abstractmethod
+    def apply(self, query:str, raw_entries:List[str], raw_embeddings: torch.Tensor) -> Tuple[str, List[str], torch.Tensor]:
+        pass
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/search_filter/date_filter.py b/src/search_filter/date_filter.py
index cab47cbb..54a8b625 100644
--- a/src/search_filter/date_filter.py
+++ b/src/search_filter/date_filter.py
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # Standard Packages
 import re
 from datetime import timedelta, datetime
-from dateutil.relativedelta import relativedelta, MO
+from dateutil.relativedelta import relativedelta
 from math import inf
 from copy import deepcopy
 
@@ -9,8 +9,11 @@ from copy import deepcopy
 import torch
 import dateparser as dtparse
 
+# Internal Packages
+from src.search_filter.base_filter import BaseFilter
 
-class DateFilter:
+
+class DateFilter(BaseFilter):
     # Date Range Filter Regexes
     # Example filter queries:
     #   - dt>="yesterday" dt<"tomorrow"
diff --git a/src/search_filter/word_filter.py b/src/search_filter/word_filter.py
index f47ae6b7..9f46edd2 100644
--- a/src/search_filter/word_filter.py
+++ b/src/search_filter/word_filter.py
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ import logging
 import torch
 
 # Internal Packages
+from src.search_filter.base_filter import BaseFilter
 from src.utils.helpers import LRU, resolve_absolute_path
 from src.utils.config import SearchType
 
@@ -15,7 +16,7 @@ from src.utils.config import SearchType
 logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
 
-class WordFilter:
+class WordFilter(BaseFilter):
     # Filter Regex
     required_regex = r'\+"(\w+)" ?'
     blocked_regex = r'\-"(\w+)" ?'
diff --git a/src/utils/config.py b/src/utils/config.py
index a4de6b81..c163e22f 100644
--- a/src/utils/config.py
+++ b/src/utils/config.py
@@ -2,9 +2,11 @@
 from enum import Enum
 from dataclasses import dataclass
 from pathlib import Path
+from typing import List
 
 # Internal Packages
 from src.utils.rawconfig import ConversationProcessorConfig
+from src.search_filter.base_filter import BaseFilter
 
 
 class SearchType(str, Enum):
@@ -20,7 +22,7 @@ class ProcessorType(str, Enum):
 
 
 class TextSearchModel():
-    def __init__(self, entries, corpus_embeddings, bi_encoder, cross_encoder, filters, top_k):
+    def __init__(self, entries, corpus_embeddings, bi_encoder, cross_encoder, filters: List[BaseFilter], top_k):
         self.entries = entries
         self.corpus_embeddings = corpus_embeddings
         self.bi_encoder = bi_encoder