Pinecone Nexus

You point Nexus at your sources and curate them into a context. Agents then query that context with a single call and get back a structured, grounded answer with citations, instead of re-assembling context from raw chunks on every request. Traditional RAG hands an agent ranked chunks and leaves it to search, stitch, and re-search. Nexus does that work once, upstream, so agents spend their budget on reasoning instead of re-orienting.

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What you can do

With Pinecone Nexus, you can:

• Turn raw sources into queryable knowledge. Upload documents or connect a data source, then curate them into a searchable context, without building a chunking pipeline or an eval set by hand.
• Get an answer in one call. Agents issue a KnowQL query (ask plus scope, optionally a typed shape) and get back a grounded, cited answer. Each query is a turn, and multi-turn conversations are sessions.
• Query across domains. A single query can span multiple contexts, so your knowledge forms a graph of contexts instead of one large index.
• Keep answers grounded and scoped. Every answer carries citations, and access is scoped to your Pinecone project.

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Why Nexus

The most expensive part of an agent is knowledge acquisition. Agents built on raw retrieval burn tokens re-orienting on every call and loop through retrieve, evaluate, and re-retrieve cycles. Nexus compiles the knowledge once and serves it on every call:

• It’s cheaper than agentic RAG. The expensive work happens once at curation time instead of on every query, so agents spend far fewer tokens.
• It’s faster than a retrieval loop. A single query replaces the multi-step retrieve, evaluate, and re-retrieve cycle.
• Its answers are trusted and grounded. Each answer carries citations and is scoped to your Pinecone project, with Pinecone Database running underneath.

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What Nexus is not

Nexus is sometimes confused with other kinds of AI tools. Here’s how it differs:

• Nexus isn’t a vector database. Pinecone Database sits underneath Nexus as its retrieval layer, and Nexus is the engine layer above it.
• Nexus isn’t RAG. RAG returns ranked chunks for a human to read, while Nexus compiles typed, grounded artifacts for agents and returns answers.
• Nexus isn’t an agent framework. Your agent sends Nexus a query, gets back an answer, and decides what to do with it.

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