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by TNWin 756 days ago
Would you mind explaining a little more on what is happening in the background?

- What is your core technical value add?

- Do you have the data sets in your own database and you are using OpenAI to query them?

- Looks like you have your own home built database?

- Are you using LLM Agents?

- I saw that you have Airtable integrations, are you able to do the same for any datasource including Airtable?

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So it's a pretty simple wrapper of LLM model in use (currently gpt-4o), it does not add much technical stuff in it.

It does not use database for any "random search", but yes, columns.ai is a data analytics tool that allows you to connect supported live data sources like Google Spreadsheet, Airtable, Notion Database to create visual stories.

The analytics engine is home built (https://github.com/varchar-io/nebula) but it is not a database. And I don't use LLM agents, just build logic how to purify data returned by LLM, and fit them into an optimized visualization.

Hope I answered your question!