diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index e5ae1c17..aa6c3d55 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ WORKDIR /app/backend
 
 COPY ./backend/requirements.txt ./requirements.txt
 RUN pip3 install -r requirements.txt
+RUN python -c "from sentence_transformers import SentenceTransformer; model = SentenceTransformer('all-MiniLM-L6-v2')"
 
 COPY ./backend .