diff --git a/.changeset/four-lizards-grin.md b/.changeset/four-lizards-grin.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..6fa5f57243
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.changeset/four-lizards-grin.md
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+---
+'@backstage/plugin-catalog-backend': patch
+---
+
+Fix export of `defaultCatalogCollatorEntityTransformer`.
diff --git a/plugins/catalog-backend/src/search/index.ts b/plugins/catalog-backend/src/search/index.ts
index c2a23e5132..3603ab2e60 100644
--- a/plugins/catalog-backend/src/search/index.ts
+++ b/plugins/catalog-backend/src/search/index.ts
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
 export { DefaultCatalogCollatorFactory } from './DefaultCatalogCollatorFactory';
 export type { DefaultCatalogCollatorFactoryOptions } from './DefaultCatalogCollatorFactory';
 export type { CatalogCollatorEntityTransformer } from './CatalogCollatorEntityTransformer';
-export type { defaultCatalogCollatorEntityTransformer } from './defaultCatalogCollatorEntityTransformer';
+export { defaultCatalogCollatorEntityTransformer } from './defaultCatalogCollatorEntityTransformer';
 
 /**
  * todo(backstage/techdocs-core): stop exporting this in a future release.