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You start from a vertical template, connect the documents the application should use, and publish a polished consumer experience for your team or customers to ask questions and trust the answers.

Marketplace quickstart

Pick a template, connect a folder of documents, and publish your first knowledge application.

Concepts

Learn the core concepts: deployments, templates, manifests, KAT, layouts, and components.

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What you can do

  • Stand up a domain-specific knowledge application without writing application code.
  • Ground every answer in your documents, with citations to the exact source.
  • Compose multiple knowledge domains into a single application using the Knowledge Agent Toolkit (KAT).
  • Publish in versioned releases with staged edits, automatic evaluation, and rollback.
  • Control access with deployer authentication and per-deployment consumer authentication.
  • Sync from sources you already use, starting with Google Drive.

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Who Marketplace is for

  • Operators are the people who build, configure, and publish a knowledge application. Operators are usually technical program managers, IT leads, solutions architects, or operations managers. They prefer config-driven workflows over custom code.
  • End users are the consumers of a published knowledge application. End users do not need a Pinecone account or knowledge of the underlying infrastructure. They sign in to the application and ask questions.

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What makes a knowledge application different

Every answer in Marketplace traces back to a source. The application knows what it knows and is built to say so when a question falls outside its scope. Operators do not have to assemble ingestion, retrieval, evaluation, authentication, or a consumer interface from scratch.

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How it works

  1. Start from a template. Pick an app designed for a common knowledge application use case (HR Benefits, Customer Support, Sales Enablement, and others). The template ships with a tuned system prompt, recommended layout, and suggested visual components.
  2. Customize behavior. Add your instructions, connect documents, and choose access settings for your use case.
  3. Deploy and iterate. Publish quickly, share with your team, test usage, and improve your app over time.
Under the hood, a knowledge application is built from one or more Pinecone assistants. Marketplace orchestrates them through KAT, a routing and disambiguation layer that selects the right knowledge domain, asks for missing context when a question is ambiguous, and applies guardrails. The result is a multi-domain application that behaves like a single, coherent product.

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Learn more

Templates

Browse the bundled vertical templates and their recommended sources.

KAT

Learn how multi-domain routing, disambiguation, slot filling, and guardrails work.

Pricing and limits

Understand how Marketplace usage is billed and what limits apply.