diff --git a/src/sentry/grouping/ingest/seer.py b/src/sentry/grouping/ingest/seer.py
index c005c51735577e..de50bdb3fcd5f3 100644
--- a/src/sentry/grouping/ingest/seer.py
+++ b/src/sentry/grouping/ingest/seer.py
@@ -1,9 +1,23 @@
+import logging
+from dataclasses import asdict
+
 from sentry import features
+from sentry.api.endpoints.group_similar_issues_embeddings import get_stacktrace_string
 from sentry.constants import PLACEHOLDER_EVENT_TITLES
 from sentry.eventstore.models import Event
+from sentry.grouping.grouping_info import get_grouping_info_from_variants
+from sentry.grouping.result import CalculatedHashes
+from sentry.models.group import Group
 from sentry.models.project import Project
+from sentry.seer.utils import (
+    SeerSimilarIssuesMetadata,
+    SimilarIssuesEmbeddingsRequest,
+    get_similarity_data_from_seer,
+)
 from sentry.utils.safe import get_path
 
+logger = logging.getLogger("sentry.events.grouping")
+
 
 def should_call_seer_for_grouping(event: Event, project: Project) -> bool:
     """
@@ -23,3 +37,59 @@ def should_call_seer_for_grouping(event: Event, project: Project) -> bool:
     return features.has("projects:similarity-embeddings-metadata", project) or features.has(
         "projects:similarity-embeddings-grouping", project
     )
+
+
+def get_seer_similar_issues(
+    event: Event,
+    primary_hashes: CalculatedHashes,
+    num_neighbors: int = 1,
+) -> tuple[
+    dict[
+        str, str | list[dict[str, float | bool | int | str]]
+    ],  # a SeerSimilarIssuesMetadata instance, dictified
+    Group | None,
+]:
+    """
+    Ask Seer for the given event's nearest neighbor(s) and return the seer response data, sorted
+    with the best matches first, along with the group Seer decided the event should go in, if any,
+    or None if no neighbor was near enough.
+
+    Will also return `None` for the neighboring group if the `projects:similarity-embeddings-grouping`
+    feature flag is off.
+    """
+
+    # TODO: Once we get rid of hierarchical hashing, we'll be able to make `variants` required in
+    # `CalculatedHashes`, meaning we can remove this check. (See note in `CalculatedHashes` class definition.)
+    if primary_hashes.variants is None:
+        raise Exception("Primary hashes missing variants data")
+
+    event_hash = primary_hashes.hashes[0]
+    stacktrace_string = get_stacktrace_string(
+        get_grouping_info_from_variants(primary_hashes.variants)
+    )
+
+    request_data: SimilarIssuesEmbeddingsRequest = {
+        "hash": event_hash,
+        "project_id": event.project.id,
+        "stacktrace": stacktrace_string,
+        "message": event.title,
+        "k": num_neighbors,
+    }
+
+    # Similar issues are returned with the closest match first
+    seer_results = get_similarity_data_from_seer(request_data)
+
+    similar_issues_metadata = asdict(
+        SeerSimilarIssuesMetadata(request_hash=event_hash, results=seer_results)
+    )
+    parent_group = (
+        Group.objects.filter(id=seer_results[0].parent_group_id).first()
+        if (
+            seer_results
+            and seer_results[0].should_group
+            and features.has("projects:similarity-embeddings-grouping", event.project)
+        )
+        else None
+    )
+
+    return (similar_issues_metadata, parent_group)