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Data Infrastructure for
AI-Native Apps

The foundation layer that scales with frontier-model powered products — collapsing warehouse, lake, stream processor, feature store, and queue into one system.

Built for teams like Lovable · Cursor · HeyGen · Synthesia · Tome — and every team building with GPT-4o, Claude, Mistral, or Llama 3.

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Growth Challenges That Limit Your Potential

Every day these remain unaddressed, you’re forced to compromise between speed, cost, and user experience.

  • Post-launch surge → cloud-bill shock. GPU + warehouse pay-per-query fees can grow faster than ARR, threatening unit economics before you find product-market fit.
  • Latency = UX. Every additional millisecond in context building or retrieval directly impacts user retention and conversion.
  • Personalisation infrastructure complexity. Per-user memory and event logs outgrow traditional feature stores at scale.
  • Context window management. Efficiently building and maintaining the right context for each interaction becomes increasingly difficult as your user base grows.
  • Usage analytics blindness. Understanding which features and patterns drive engagement and cost requires data infrastructure most startups lack.
  • Compliance & privacy requirements. SOC 2 and emerging AI regulations demand data governance capabilities beyond what typical startups build in-house.

How MinusOneDB Transforms Your AI Infrastructure

Not another point solution. A foundation layer rebuilt from first principles — where indexed storage, not compute, bears the bulk of the query workload. 100–1,000x more efficient per query on a price/performance basis.

Constant-time queries

Our rebuilt distributed search architecture traverses petabytes through optimised index structures. Predictable latency regardless of data volume.

Real-time streaming

User interactions and model outputs become queryable within ~2 seconds of ingestion, enabling real-time personalisation and safety features.

Hybrid retrieval for RAG

Unified keyword and structured metadata search in a single query. No performance penalty for combining boolean logic with text relevance — critical for production RAG pipelines.

Capacity-based pricing

You lease infrastructure, not queries. ~5M queries/mo on base capacity. Costs 80–95% lower than pay-per-query warehouses at scale. No surprise bills when your app goes viral.

From $1,575/mo base + $1,200/TB/mo

Deterministic rebuild

Any dataset at any scale can be rebuilt from object store in ~3 hours. Essential for disaster recovery, DevOps at scale, and data sovereignty.

REST API + JS SDK

Your web engineers and full-stack devs integrate directly. No specialist data engineering team required to get started.

Our architecture delivers eventually consistent semantics (typically ~2 seconds write visibility), which is sufficient for most AI application workloads. For true ACID requirements, we offer integration with transactional stores while maintaining our performance advantages for query-driven workloads.

RAG That Actually Scales

Current architectures force you to choose between retrieval speed and hybrid filtering capabilities. MinusOneDB eliminates that trade-off.

Hybrid search, one query

Combine keyword matching and structured metadata filters in a single request. No separate indices, no fan-out, no result merging in application code.

Real-time corpus updates

New documents are searchable within ~2 seconds of ingestion. Your RAG pipeline always returns current results, not stale snapshots.

Fine-grained lineage tracking

Every piece of data maintains its complete provenance. Know exactly which sources contributed to each retrieval result — essential for evaluation and debugging.

~2s
Write visibility
80–95%
Cost reduction at scale

From Pain to Performance

CapabilityCurrent State30 Days90 Days
Context retrieval latency P95500–700 ms180–250 msConstant-time, sub-100 ms
Traffic spike handlingPre-provisioned or failDynamic, 2× overheadDynamic, minimal overhead
Privacy request fulfilmentManual, daysSemi-automated, hoursAutomated, minutes
User memory qualityGeneric, limited scopePersonalised, sessionPersonalised, persistent
Content safety coverageBasic, high latencyComprehensive, mediumComprehensive, real-time

Implementation Approach

Designed for resource-constrained teams that need impact without overhead.

  • Discovery (Days 1–3) — Lightweight technical assessment and cost modelling specific to your application.
  • Pilot deployment (Week 1) — Deploy MinusOneDB with a subset of your traffic to validate performance and integration.
  • Initial blueprint integration (Weeks 2–3) — Implement highest-impact blueprint components with your engineering team.
  • Performance validation (Week 4) — Comprehensive benchmarking and user experience testing.
  • Scale & optimise (Months 2–3) — Full deployment with continuous optimisation for your specific traffic patterns.
First measurable improvements typically visible within 1–2 weeks, with significant business impact realised in 4–6 weeks.

Built for These Workloads

Context Retrieval

Assemble the right context for each LLM interaction in seconds, combining user history, domain knowledge, and real-time signals in a single query.

User Memory

Persistent, per-user memory that scales from early adopters to millions. Session context, preferences, and interaction history — queryable instantly.

Real-Time Personalisation

~2 seconds from event to queryable data. Adapt recommendations, content, and behaviour in real time as users interact with your product.

Model Evaluation

Token-level logging with lineage tracking. Trace which data influenced which outputs. Run evaluation queries across your entire interaction history without query-cost anxiety.

What We Need to Get Started

  • Access to your data layer code (can be temporary, read-only)
  • Sample user interaction patterns (anonymised)
  • Current performance metrics and pain points
  • Target cost and performance goals
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