Over the years, we’ve built dozens of RAG and Agentic AI applications for our customers. While it’s exciting work, it often feels repetitive — every project begins with setting up the same foundational infrastructure to support state-of-the-art retrieval of proprietary information using advanced AI solutions and AI systems.
Building this kind of system from scratch is no small task. You need to configure data stores like vector databases, graph databases, and object or structured storage. On top of that, you have to implement ranking and retrieval algorithms, clean data, and remove sensitive information like PII. The process can take weeks if not months.
Artificial intelligence plays a crucial role in enhancing productivity by enabling sophisticated reasoning and problem-solving capabilities.
But let’s be honest — most of us want to skip straight to building the agent or AI project itself, not spending countless hours on the supporting architecture. What if you could bypass all that groundwork and create the agent or other AI application?
Starting today, you can!
We’re excited to announce the launch of Raindrop SmartBuckets - built by developers for developers.
Our take on cloud storage combines the simplicity of object stores with powerful AI capabilities designed with developers in mind.
Sign up for your account today →SmartBuckets go beyond traditional object storage by automatically adding intelligence to your data through intelligent agents. While they work seamlessly with any file type, they offer enhanced capabilities for:
PDF documents
Images (PNG, JPG)
Audio files (MP3, WAV)
Raw text files (TXT)
With more formats coming soon! Let us know which formats you are most interested in.
Large language models (LLMs) further enhance these capabilities by enabling AI agents to understand and interact using natural language, facilitating more meaningful conversations and autonomous decision-making based on complex data analysis.
When you store supported file types in a SmartBucket, they’re automatically prepared for consumption and enhanced to build AI-powered agents. Here’s what you can do with that.
SmartBuckets revolutionize how you interact with your stored data through natural language processing and natural language queries. Ask direct questions about your content, like “what animals are in this picture?” or search across your entire bucket with queries like “find all pictures with a cat in them.” Our advanced audio processing lets you search through recordings to find specific moments, such as “find all calls where the customer expressed frustration”.
raindrop query search "What animals are in this picture?" -b <your-smartbucket-name>
SmartBuckets are designed to be the perfect foundation for AI-powered applications. Our advanced retrieval system ensures your AI agents can quickly find and understand the most relevant information across all your stored data, showcasing how AI agents work to enhance efficiency. Whether you’re building a customer service bot, a research assistant, or any other AI agent, SmartBuckets provide:
Intelligent context retrieval that helps AI agents better understand user queries and customer queries.
Automatic ranking of content relevance to ensure that the most appropriate data is used with state of the art ranking algorithms.
Entity extraction and graph modeling for even better contextual understanding.
Multi-modal support. Extracting context from images and other formats for rich data understanding.
curl -X POST https://api.raindrop.run/v1/document_query \
-H "Authorization: Bearer lm_apikey_..." \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"bucket": "my-bucket",
"object_id": "document.pdf",
"input": "What are the key points in this document?",
"request_id": "123e4567-e89b-12d3-a456-426614174000"
}'
{
"answer": "The key points in this document are..."
}
We prioritize your security with utmost seriousness. Your data is encrypted both in transit (SSL/TLS) and at rest, ensuring its confidentiality and integrity. We also protect your applications against DDoS attacks with enterprise-grade security measures. Beyond safeguarding your data, we enable security-focused use cases and offer tools to easily comply with regulatory requirements.
Our platform empowers you with tools for explainability and lineage/governance, ensuring seamless transparency and adherence to data protection regulations. Security is embedded at the core of SmartBuckets, featuring robust content detection capabilities across all your documents and images. Our AI-powered scanning, driven by autonomous agents, automatically identifies Personally Identifiable Information (PII).
These systems manage tasks with minimal or no human intervention, demonstrating their ability to handle complex processes traditionally reliant on human intelligence.
Our content scanning tracks sensitive information across all file iterations, ensuring comprehensive oversight.
raindrop query search "Retrieve all objects with PII" -b <your-smartbucket-name>
Applications and their data change over time, and SmartBuckets are built to adapt like an intelligent agent. With soon to arrive features like built-in versioning and lineage tracking, every version of every object will be recorded and available when you need it. Lineage will allow you to see exactly where your data is being used, helping you understand which applications rely on it and how new changes might impact your system.
Make a mistake updating your data? No problem. Our versioning will allow you to roll back changes easily to restore your data to a previous working state.
SmartBuckets include PII scanners to help identify sensitive data before it becomes an issue. If sensitive data accidentally makes its way into your applications, you will soon be able to instantly disable access with a kill switch. Think of it as a feature flag for your data—toggle it off, and SmartBuckets ensures the data is no longer accessible until you’re ready to re-enable it. This lets you quickly mitigate risks and control data availability with ease.
Stay tuned for more updates by joining our Discord community!
Ready to make your data smarter with your own AI agents? We’re offering:
✨ Free 2 million tokens and 10GB of storage per month
💰 Pay-as-you-go for additional tokens and storage
🎯 No egress fees
Want to learn more? Check out our detailed documentation, where you’ll find examples and SDKs for popular front-end, back-end, and other programming languages, plus detailed use case guides for integrating SmartBuckets into your stack.
Want to explore costs first? Take a look at our pricing here. To get in contact with us or for more updates, join our Discord community.