Introduction

Ballast is an AI context retrieval platform that connects your organization’s data sources—databases, cloud storage, SaaS applications—to semantic search and AI agents like Claude.

What Ballast Does

Unified Search: Query all your data sources with natural language. Ballast indexes content from 57+ integrations and returns semantically relevant results.

AI Agent Integration: Each collection exposes an MCP (Model Context Protocol) server that Claude Desktop and other AI tools can connect to directly.

Smart Dashboards: Ask questions about your data and Ballast generates visualizations. Save and share insights with your team.

Key Concepts

• Collections: Searchable indexes containing data from one or more sources
• Sources: Connections to external data (Google Drive, Slack, PostgreSQL, etc.)
• MCP Servers: Per-collection endpoints that AI agents use to search your data

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