diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 1ecd207d01171d23ea03f8ffd974a020cead72a1..ca05b4f531e4fd1e9933d794442183cd33a3486e 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [tool.poetry]
 name = "semantic-router"
-version = "0.0.54"
+version = "0.0.55"
 description = "Super fast semantic router for AI decision making"
 authors = [
     "James Briggs <james@aurelio.ai>",
diff --git a/semantic_router/__init__.py b/semantic_router/__init__.py
index bd7f093236b6f45cd64bf2d3cd17b31d9ae92158..a7071fc2ec205e7b089c6a63da4f9298112fde06 100644
--- a/semantic_router/__init__.py
+++ b/semantic_router/__init__.py
@@ -4,4 +4,4 @@ from semantic_router.route import Route
 
 __all__ = ["RouteLayer", "HybridRouteLayer", "Route", "LayerConfig"]
 
-__version__ = "0.0.54"
+__version__ = "0.0.55"
diff --git a/semantic_router/index/pinecone.py b/semantic_router/index/pinecone.py
index 97777df50109757e841323f736ede343825e7f57..0557b8ee4ab91543f279efb37d4be8b135dc5664 100644
--- a/semantic_router/index/pinecone.py
+++ b/semantic_router/index/pinecone.py
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ from pydantic.v1 import BaseModel, Field
 
 from semantic_router.index.base import BaseIndex
 from semantic_router.utils.logger import logger
+from semantic_router.route import Route
 
 
 def clean_route_name(route_name: str) -> str:
@@ -209,6 +210,7 @@ class PineconeIndex(BaseIndex):
             self.index = self._init_index(force_create=True)
 
         remote_routes = self.get_routes()
+
         remote_dict: dict = {route: set() for route, _ in remote_routes}
         for route, utterance in remote_routes:
             remote_dict[route].add(utterance)