We’re excited to announce a strategic partnership with Redpanda, the leading streaming data platform for enterprise, to deliver vertically-integrated AI through agents and multi-agent systems across the highest-consequence environments: government, defense and Global 2000 enterprises.
Poolside builds foundation models, agents and orchestration systems to transform how work gets done in the enterprise. Our partnership with Redpanda makes 300+ enterprise data sources instantly and securely available to our agents across every environment.
We’re working towards a future where enterprises can effectively deploy agents at scale: the foundation for the agentic enterprise. Authorized and traceable access to your data, inside your firewall, is a requirement. Poolside is engineered for your most important work—work that demands trust and auditability without compromising the intelligence delivered.
Why access to data is the missing piece
As agents become more capable, they need secure, consistent access to data to solve the hardest problems in the highly-complex environments of modern enterprises. The most intelligent model-agent systems are only as effective as the context they have access to—and only as safe as the authorization framework underneath.
This partnership combines Poolside’s single and multi-agent systems (intelligence), our policy-driven agent orchestration (control) and Redpanda’s streaming data fabric and distributed log (context).
The result is a controllable, observable agent workforce: agents within a reasoning layer powered by Poolside’s foundation models; a flexible, performant query engine (not fixed collections of tools); clear policies for action; and centralized orchestration where complexity is managed in the data plane.
Least-privilege control for humans and agents accessing data across your enterprise, with no compromises on performance or security. Enterprises can feel safe bringing Poolside and Redpanda to their most sensitive data environments with full support for bring-your-own-cloud (BYOC), on-premise and air-gapped environments.
How we're working together
We’re collaborating with Redpanda to build agent-friendly abstractions on top of their data platform, supercharged by Redpanda’s acquisition of Oxla. Redpanda Connect handles ingestion from 300+ sources; Oxla, now part of Redpanda’s Agentic Data Plane (ADP), puts a powerful query engine at an agent’s fingertips, making live data easier to fetch, filter and shape into context.
In our joint architecture, enterprise consumers can subscribe, inspect and approve data access events—enabling human-in-the-loop controls and robust forensics across all agent interactions with critical, proprietary data.
This partnership broadens our reach to knowledge work across the enterprise by unlocking almost every data source imaginable for our agents to act on—with full observability and full control.