Maker unlimited users vs Business 30 users?

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Hi @Todd_Lichtenwalter ,

As @ThinhDinh mentioned, there is a Pinecone integration with Glide that allows you to use your Student Handbook as RAG source. It is easy to set up at the backend in Pinecone, however creating the layout/saving the data in Glide is not straightforward (I’ve spent a few days & have finally got an interim working solution - it’s not perfect, but fine for a pilot/MVP).

Here are links that helped me: https://www.glideapps.com/docs/automation/integrations/pinecone and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtBsVMx9jVk (thanks @eltintero!) .

A few things to consider:

  • Are the School handbooks public domain information? If not, you would need to get Users to sign in to access them.
  • I’m guessing each school’s handbook is different? If so, you would need to create a separate Pinecone Assistant for each one, and ensure that only relevant Users can chat with the correct handbook.
  • You’ll need to watch your costs in Pinecone as they’ll add up quickly if you have a lot of Q&A.
  • If the questions that will be asked of the handbook(s) are pretty standard across schools e.g. what is the school’s uniform policy, what are the hours, subjects, discipline process etc., then you might be better creating a standard set of questions and answers for each school up front: upload the handbook to ChatGPT and/or Claude and ask it to to help you create a set of Q&A from its content, then load the Q&A sets into a table. This way you avoid the Pinecone/MindStudio costs, and can use Glide’s own AI to ask Q&A of your ‘Student Handbooks’ table.
  • You can allow for scenarios where you don’t have an answer to a User’s questions - in that case, capture that question somewhere e.g. ‘Unanswered Questions’ table, so that you can generate new answers offline, and add the new pairs into your Q&A table.

If you are not set on using Glide for other reasons, you would be better sticking to a platform that’s specifically designed for AI Assistants/Agents such as MindStudio or Voiceflow, that have inbuilt RAG and can be integrated into school’s websites.

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