Let’s be blunt: AI is moving faster than most enterprise data architectures can keep up. Enterprises are betting big on GenAI. Boards are demanding transformation. And yet, the moment a business user asks a question — everything grinds to a halt. Why? Because the architecture that we use to get data-driven answers weren’t designed for this new world.
Modern Data Architecture is Already Outdated
When business users or agents ask questions, data teams face three bad choices:
- Centralize everything. This is the promise most vendors make. Move all your data into one cloud, one warehouse, one stack. But this simply doesn’t reflect reality. Useful data will always live across SaaS applications, on-premises systems, and multiple clouds. Centralization takes time, breaks governance, and ultimately doesn’t deliver the flexibility business teams need.
- Build a dashboard. Self-service dashboards sound great on paper. But in practice, answering new questions requires weeks of ETL, data modeling, and coordination across multiple teams. Add in a flood of questions from AI agents and LLMs, and the bottleneck becomes unmanageable.
- Ask an agent or copilot. A new generation of agents and copilots promises to make it easier to get answers. But they are too limiting since they are restricted to specific platforms or tools, without access to the full context across all your data platforms.
The result? Business questions go unanswered. Data teams burn out. AI investments stall.
This is not a tooling problem. It’s an architectural one.
A New Data Architecture for AI in the Enterprise
Today, I’m excited to announce the next agentic version of Promethium’s Instant Data Fabric™ with an open architecture purpose-built for self-service data at AI scale. To experience the full power of this platform, we are also announcing Mantra™, a self-service data agent that gives data teams a powerful new way to answer business and agent-driven questions — instantly, accurately, and at scale. Mantra is currently available in private preview. To learn more or join the waitlist, visit https://promethium.ai/mantra.
The Instant Data Fabric represents the next evolution of data architecture — moving beyond traditional data fabrics focused on virtualization to agentic platforms built specifically for real-time, ad hoc data access, context and consumption at AI-scale.
This architecture brings together three key capabilities:
- Fast, unified data access across enterprise data platforms. Promethium provides real-time, zero-copy access to data across cloud, on-premises, and SaaS platforms. Fine-grained, enterprise-grade access controls ensure speed, security, and compliance.
- Accurate answers through deep context. There is often a disconnect between business questions and the underlying data. Promethium’s 360° Context Engine bridges this gap by aggregating technical and business metadata to generate relevant, contextual responses.
- Self-Service collaboration with Data Answers. Mantra enables data teams to build, and share contextual data products called Data Answers.
Mantra: A New Superpower for Your Data Team
Mantra gives your data team a new strategic capability: the ability to instantly generate Data Answers in response to business or agent queries — complete with SQL, metadata, lineage, visualizations, and built-in governance.
Data Answers are contextual for dynamic questions in the era of AI. They’re versioned, shareable, reusable and explainable — and they can be:
- Published into BI tools and dashboards
- Integrated into workflows and pipelines
- Shared between agents via MCP, APIs or Promethium’s data marketplace
Mantra assists your team to move 10x faster — while maintaining full control, context, and trust.
As one enterprise put it: “What used to take three teams and three weeks now happens in one place in minutes.”
Open vs. Closed: The Agentic Bet
As platforms consolidate agentic capabilities around data, catalogs, and business tools, forming their own “AI is the new BI” vertically oriented stacks, enterprises are struggling to leverage these offerings without getting locked into any one platform.
Promethium’s open agentic architecture provides the freedom from lock-in, while accelerating value from integrating with diverse data platforms, BI tools, catalogs and AI models.
Come meet with us
We are super excited to team up with innovative data teams in enterprises that are leaning into AI at scale. With the Instant Data Fabric and Mantra, you can:
- Enable true self-service data delivery across the enterprise — not just dashboards, but high velocity data answers that are scalable
- Support both human and agent-driven queries — with full context and trust
- Maintain governance and control — while matching the agility of the business
If you’re a data or AI leader ready to move beyond the limitations of traditional architectures, let’s talk. Reach out to me or my team for a demo or to see how Mantra looks like in action in your enterprise — let’s explore how we can partner to deliver self-service data.
Prat Moghe
CEO, Promethium
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