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Re: Show HN: Airweave – Let agents search any app

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Post by raufakdemir »

risyachka wrote: post #27
renesultan wrote: post #3

Had meetings with a ton of MCP-server providers, no one came close to Airweave’s retrieval accuracy. I even tried Zapier and similar large companies, didn’t come near airweave. Highly highly recommend if you need third party integrations to your AI agents or workflows. Love the team too, cracked, cool, kind, and always there to support their customers (they even took one of their customers dog on a walk when they cou…

Noob here - why would mcp providers have a good accuracy? Don’t they just adjust existing apis to mcp protocol basically just wrapping them?

This is exactly the reason we started building Airweave! The “context” in MCP is a bit deceiving, as it actually provides very little context.

Re: Show HN: Airweave – Let agents search any app

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Post by raufakdemir »

mike_d wrote: post #28
raufakdemir wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I assume you're talking about the data layer (not the control plane)? We are currently in PoC phase for mapping the role graphs from source systems (Asana, Google Drive) to our internal role model, but this is still in the works. The way developers work around this atm is by configuring a connection on a subset of the source info. Example: only make Airweave sync info from the `Shared Drive/Marketing/Branding` path

How do you handle data retention? For example say that you suck in the information of a California resident and the company is obligated by law to delete it on request. How do you ensure no derivative data exists within your model?

So you would like to delete information for a specific user identifier? Currently that means resyncing excluding that user profile (which would have to be removed from the source system) but happy to hear more about this use case. Would a desired feature be a “delete by user email” for example?

Re: Show HN: Airweave – Let agents search any app

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Post by raufakdemir »

howmayiannoyyou wrote: post #26

If we want to integrate our SAAS apps into airweave, is there an appexchange or directory for doing so?

Yes, we create service accounts on the source platforms which can then be used to do an OAuth or key based integration. What would you like to do specifically?

Re: Show HN: Airweave – Let agents search any app

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Post by thawab »

risyachka wrote: post #27
renesultan wrote: post #3

Had meetings with a ton of MCP-server providers, no one came close to Airweave’s retrieval accuracy. I even tried Zapier and similar large companies, didn’t come near airweave. Highly highly recommend if you need third party integrations to your AI agents or workflows. Love the team too, cracked, cool, kind, and always there to support their customers (they even took one of their customers dog on a walk when they cou…

Noob here - why would mcp providers have a good accuracy? Don’t they just adjust existing apis to mcp protocol basically just wrapping them?

Yes, a lot MCP servers are just api wrappers. Airweave looks like it copies the data and has a RAG that is processing your queries.

Re: Show HN: Airweave – Let agents search any app

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Post by smattiso »

This is a great idea. I have a question:

Typically speaking an LLM is the code driving the control flow and the MCP servers are kind of dumb API endpoints (find_flights, search_hotels, etc) say for a travel MCP.

With your product, how is the LLM made aware of the underlying data store in a more useful way than “func search(query)”?

It seems to be that if you could expose some precomputed API structure into the MCP for a given data store then the LLM could reason more effectively about the data rather than throwing search queries into the void and hoping for the best?

Re: Show HN: Airweave – Let agents search any app

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Post by behindsight »

smattiso wrote: post #37

This is a great idea. I have a question: Typically speaking an LLM is the code driving the control flow and the MCP servers are kind of dumb API endpoints (find_flights, search_hotels, etc) say for a travel MCP. With your product, how is the LLM made aware of the underlying data store in a more useful way than “func search(query)”? It seems to be that if you could expose some precomputed API structure into the MCP fo…

From what I have gathered their main differentiator is taking the approach of assigning each discrete data point its own "entity" definition that is independent but can be extended for each data provider.

So since its all represented by entities, you could treat them like any other vectorised data in your vector data store and use vector search.

It's a nice technique, but probably tricky if they ever venture into encapsulating endpoints in realtime for rapidly changing b2c applications (ratelimits/cronjob latency)

Re: Show HN: Airweave – Let agents search any app

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Post by swyx »

i think before you guys spend the next 2 years building this startup, you should carefully study the connector business and the many carcasses along the way. YC itself has a few. it is probably one of the sloggiest businesses i know and while the success cases like fivetran are great, there is a lot of pain behind the failures. dont ask how i know. good luck and i hope you prove me wrong if you choose to ignore this.
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