# How predori uses Weaviate

**80%**: “they reduced their operational costs by over 80%”

As published on [weaviate.io](https://weaviate.io/case-studies/predori). Captured by usedby on 2026-10-08.

- Company: [predori](https://www.usedby.ai/companies/predori.md)
- Tool: [Weaviate](https://www.usedby.ai/tools/weaviate.md)
- Industry: [Artificial Intelligence](https://www.usedby.ai/companies/industry/artificial-intelligence.md)
- Teams: Engineering
- Customer since (as the page says): they chose Weaviate Cloud in 2021

## What the story says

predori runs a patent intelligence platform whose semantic search and retrieval run on Weaviate Cloud's managed vector database, replacing a previous Lucene-based AWS service. It is also used as the foundation for building agentic RAG systems.

Summary written by usedby from the source page, in English. The figures are those of Weaviate and predori, not ours.

> By switching to Weaviate's managed vector database, they reduced their operational costs by over 80%, freed their team to innovate, and cleared the path for building advanced agentic RAG systems that will define their future.

- **factor of 10**: “By moving away from the Lucene-based AWS setup, predori immediately cut their operational costs by a factor of 10.”

> We were trying to squeeze a vector database into what is not really a vector database, and it was super expensive and just not good. It was just the wrong technology, a complete overkill for the mathematical problem of approximate nearest neighbor search.
>
> Konstantin Schmitz, Co-founder of predori

Source: [weaviate.io](https://weaviate.io/case-studies/predori), captured 2026-10-08.

## What usedby checked

We compared the story with its live page on 2026-10-08.

- Checked: the figure 80% is printed word for word on the page, near the name of predori.
- Checked: the passage quoted above is copied word for word from the page, near the name of predori.
- Checked: predori uses Weaviate. Confirmed line. Latest check across sources: 2026-10-08.
- Not checked: the result itself. We quote it; we did not measure it.

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