At VAST, we’re working on something groundbreaking.
Imagine an AI agent that doesn’t just answer surface-level questions — but truly understands your enterprise. One that spans your entire business knowledge: documents, reports, tables, graph data. From go-to-market strategies and sales leads to marketing effectiveness, brand positioning, product roadmaps, and more.
An agent that can reason, evolve ideas, collaborate with users and other agents, and surface insights no individual or team could uncover alone.
This isn’t a someday vision. It’s happening now at VAST — and today, we’re excited to share our work on building a new, powerful AI agent purpose-built for the enterprise knowledge base.
Why Change? The Hidden Cost of Disconnected Knowledge
Today’s enterprises are flooded with information: sales pipelines, marketing campaigns, brand assets, customer feedback, product planning documents, financial projections.
Yet this data is often too vast to effectively correlate and reason against, it contains deep insight that is disconnected from the teams who could use it most. The knowledge that could spark the next breakthrough — a new campaign, a critical product pivot, a better customer experience — often remains hidden simply because it’s too complex, too abstract, or too vast for traditional tools to surface.
Existing systems can answer predefined questions, but they can’t reason. They can retrieve, but they can’t converse, challenge assumptions, or propose new ideas.
We don’t just need better ways to search documents or visualize tables. We need an intelligent agent that can read, reason, and converse over our enterprise knowledge base, treating it not as static content, but as a living, evolving map of insights.
Why Now? Why Enterprise AI is Ready for Reasoning
The time to make this leap is now, because for the first time, the technological foundations are nearing enterprise readiness.
Advanced reasoning models can now handle complex, multi-domain queries, evolving ideas dynamically rather than following fixed rules. Enterprises are embedding AI deeper into operations, demanding real-time insights and proactive collaboration.
As enterprise data complexity accumulates, organizations that can extract insights more efficiently and reason across broader knowledge domains will be better positioned to make informed, strategic decisions.
Moreover, the convergence of structured and unstructured data management, real-time analytics, and scalable AI tools means that the barriers that once made such an agent a dream are falling away.
We are standing at the threshold of the next generation of enterprise intelligence.
Why VAST? The Only Platform Designed for Real-Time, AI-Driven Enterprise Intelligence
VAST is uniquely positioned to make this vision a reality — through the unmatched strengths of the VAST InsightEngine platform:
Unprecedented Scalability and Unification At the core of InsightEngine is the VAST DataStore, a highly scalable, data foundation capable of managing petabytes to exabytes of unstructured data with zero compromise. Coupled with the VAST DataBase, the platform unifies structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data — including vector embeddings for AI-native search and reasoning — into a single, performant namespace. No more silos. No more extract-transform-load delays. Just one cohesive, enterprise-wide knowledge platform.
Real-Time Responsiveness at Hyperscale Unlike legacy architectures retrofitted for AI, the VAST platform was built for it. Our disaggregated, shared-everything (DASE) architecture delivers low latency and massive parallelism, enabling AI agents to reason across complex, distributed datasets without bottlenecks. InsightEngine’s AI queries run at machine speed — because insights delayed are opportunities lost.
Enterprise-Grade Security, Identity, and Access Control AI-driven reasoning demands trust and control. VAST provides a fully integrated security and governance framework with role-based access, audit logging, encryption, and multi-tenant policy management. AI agents operate securely and compliantly, respecting enterprise permissions while surfacing insights only to the right users at the right time.
Built-In Data Services for Always-On AI Workflows Features like instant snapshots, geo-replication, native encryption, multi-tenancy, quality of service (QoS), and continuous availability aren’t optional — they’re embedded in the core of the platform. This ensures AI workloads are resilient, protected, and operationally seamless as they scale.
In short, VAST doesn’t just power data. We power insight, intelligence, and innovation from that data, at a scale and speed the enterprise needs to run its AI practices to effectively take the business forward.
The future isn’t about teaching people to find insights. It’s about building agents that find insights for you, and even suggest the ones you never thought to ask.
Imagine if your enterprise had a partner that could think as fast as your market moves. Imagine if your ideas could evolve at machine speed. Imagine if your data could finally speak.
With VAST InsightEngine, that future isn’t just possible, it’s being built right now. And we are the only company with the architecture, the platform and the vision to make it real.
