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If data is everywhere, it’s expected that it’s not always in a table-shaped format. Beyond the tables and structured data, you can have important information on PDFs, images, videos, and so on. Through Volumes, Nekt supports the storage and manipulation of them too so you can integrate it all in a single place and make sense out of it.
Volumes feature is only available for Growth or Custom plans.
From the catalog, select the layer where you want to store your volumes and click on “Add Volume”. You’ll have your files on the catalog and can reference them directly in your transformations just as you do with the tables.

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Populated by source connectors

You don’t always have to upload files by hand. Some source connectors can push files straight into a volume as part of the extraction, and emit a metadata table that links each row to the stored file. Point the connector at a volume in its configuration and it stays in sync with the source. A few examples of connectors that support this today:
  • Pipefy: card attachments
  • Gmail: email attachments
  • SharePoint: raw files, when the connector is set to Unstructured mode
Check the individual Sources pages to see whether the connector you need writes to a volume.

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Quick example

Upload a folder of PDFs to a volume, then run a Notebook that reads each file, summarizes it with an LLM, and writes the results to a table. From there you can query the summaries in the Explorer or push them to Slack, email, or a warehouse through a Destination. Contact support to discuss your use case.

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API & MCP

Platform API

Read the Volume object.

MCP tools

list_volumes, list_files, read_file, and the upload tools.