Airweave
AI
agent search infrastructure
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How HN took it
5 positive, 27 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 2 critical, out of 35 comments about the project. Thread score +0.12.
Idea: 3 for, 2 againstPerformance: 1 for, 0 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Retrieval accuracy better than other MCP server providers
From 1 comment
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.…
renesultan on HN
Team is responsive and supportive
From 1 comment
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.…
renesultan on HN
Objections
Connector business is a slog with many failures
From 1 comment
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.…
swyx on HN
Copies customer data and runs RAG over it, raising privacy concerns
From 2 comments
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.
thawab on HNHow 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…
mike_d on HN
Role-based access control is not yet built
From 1 comment
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…
raufakdemir on HN
Requests
Support for Snowflake and Fabric data lakes
From 1 comment
Looks like a great product! Do you integrate with datalakes (Snowflake/Fabric?)
om0agarwal on HN
Ability to take actions such as creating tickets or sending messages
From 1 comment
How about acting? Can your platform have a chat window create a ticket or send a message? I feel there is so much search already.
andes314 on HN
Deletion of data by user identifier for compliance
From 1 comment
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…
mike_d on HN
Questions
How is it different from regular MCP servers
From 1 comment
How is this different from regular MCP servers?
bartjanjorna on HN
How the LLM is made aware of the data store beyond a generic search function
From 1 comment
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,…
smattiso on HN
Whether it can run inside a VPC and connect to private databases
From 1 comment
Pretty cool stuff. How does it deal with self-hosted data sources? can it run inside a VPC and talk to my RDS instances directly?
brene on HN
How the product makes money and where data is stored
From 1 comment
Looks really cool! I had slight trouble understanding whether the repo is the complete codebase or if it connects to a separate backend. Does one host the server or is it…
beecasthurlbow on HN
How incremental sync and diffing work across integrations
From 1 comment
Are integrations hooked into via their MCP implementation? Or are you hooking in more traditionally and then exposing MCP on top of that? Also, are these one-time/event-based…
throwaway314155 on HN
Alternatives named
Glean, Onyx, Moveworks, Dashworks
From 1 comment
Is chat always the best interface for all of these apps? I feel like search is the natural first step, but chat-based search has been around for a while. Feel like an MCP-based…
valianter on HN
Zapier
From 1 comment
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.…
renesultan on HN
n8n
From 1 comment
Pretty cool – when does it make sense to use this vs n8n?
pomarie on HN
AWS Bedrock knowledge bases
From 1 comment
Used to work at AWS bedrock knowledge bases — love the way yall are thinking about this can't wait to try it out.
rohanv23 on HN