Extremely token-efficient access to all your data sources
-- Introducing Max --
A federated, schematised, open source data query layer for agents and humans alike.
Find the top 10 most common double-barrelled surnames in our HubSpot contacts.
For each, how many Google Drive files mention the surname + "invoice" in the title?
Real-world benchmark. MCP figures extrapolated — terminated mid-run due to repeated recompactions.
How is this possible?
MCP servers are inherently restrictive - most are thin veneers over existing APIs. These APIs all come with their own unique rate limits, throughput speeds and search powers. For agents, these limitations can be debilitating.
The max protocol flips the model - it makes data available right where your
agents need it, in a convenient CLI form; where they can
cut, sed, grep, pipe and redirect at will.
The result is unfettered search, context-free operations and lightning-fast speeds.
Max is designed for...
- Federated data - create, reflect and consume from max nodes in any topology.
- Federated governance - apply access controls and observability at the edges.
- Unified search - a common lingua franca for unfettered search across all connectors.
- Private and public connectors - connect to any source, create any connector.
- Plugin architecture - extend max at
ingest,index,storage,queryanddeliverphases. - Open source - max's core, protocols, library, CLI and platform bindings are fully open source under Apache 2.0.
