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Pinecone Nexus runs in your own cloud account. This quickstart deploys Nexus with bring-your-own-cloud (BYOC), then builds a context from your own documents and queries it from your deployment’s console.

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Prerequisites

  • A Pinecone Enterprise plan (required for BYOC).
  • A dedicated cloud account (AWS, GCP, or Azure) with admin access, plus the install tooling. See the deploy prerequisites for the full list.

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1. Deploy Nexus

Nexus runs in your own cloud, so deploying it comes first.
1

Install Nexus

Follow Deploy Nexus BYOC to install Nexus in your own cloud account with the Pulumi installer.
2

Open your deployment's console

When the install finishes, it prints your workspace console URL. Open it to reach your deployment’s console, where the rest of this quickstart happens.

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2. Add a context

Build a context from your own documents.
1

Create a context

In your deployment’s console sidebar, next to Contexts, click + New. On the New context tab, enter a Name (the URL slug is generated from it) and a Description, then click Create context.
2

Import sources

On the Sources tab, click + Import, then bring in your documents one of these ways:
  • Upload files or an archive.
  • Pull from a public Hugging Face or GitHub repository URL.
  • Connect a Box or Google Drive account and import from it.
3

Design the manifest

On the Design tab, pick a manifest template that fits your sources (for example, General knowledge base). The template describes the artifacts and edges it will build and shows an estimated cost and time.
4

Curate

Apply the template to curate. Nexus chunks your sources and distills them into the artifacts the manifest defines, then indexes everything. Follow progress on the Sources and Knowledge tabs, and under Activity.
Have a .context.zip pack? In the New context dialog, open the Restore tab, drop the pack (or click choose a file), then click Restore context. Packs come from a context’s Packs tab.

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3. Query your context

Once curation finishes, ask your context a question and get a grounded, cited answer.
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Open the Query tab

Open your context’s Query tab, and optionally pick the answering model.
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Ask a question

Type your question in the Search this context box and run it. Nexus returns a grounded, cited answer with suggested follow-up topics, and saves it as a session you can reopen from Sessions.
To query several contexts at once, start a session from Sessions with + New session, click each context in the Query across row, and ask.
You can also query from your own code, using the KnowQL query endpoint or an MCP server.