AI agents are no longer theoretical. They are rapidly becoming operational realities — driving insights, automating decisions, and interacting with enterprise systems at machine scale. But their effectiveness depends entirely on the quality, governance, and discoverability of the data they consume.

In this session of Nextdata technical support recently recorded, Jörg Schaad digs into the technical challenges of enabling agent-based architectures — and shows how autonomous data products, powered by Nextdata OS, solve critical barriers to scale.

“Your models — and your agents — are only as good as the data you can feed them.” — Jörg

In the discussion, we cover:

• Why traditional data architectures fail AI agents: Without fine-grained quality guarantees, semantic models, and real-time metadata, agents can produce inaccurate results, leak sensitive information, or act on stale datasets.
  
  
• How autonomous data products encapsulate trust: Each data product standardizes access through APIs, embeds semantic meaning, enforces computational policies, and exposes freshness and quality metadata — enabling agents to reason safely at runtime.
  
  
• Scaling beyond a single product: Nextdata OS provides cross-product discovery APIs that allow agents to dynamically find, evaluate, and consume new autonomous data products as they emerge, without manual rewiring.
  
  
• Supporting standards-based interoperability: By embracing the emerging MCP protocol and layering on permission and governance models, Nextdata OS ensures safe, permissioned access at scale — critical for regulated industries.
  
  

The demo from the Nextdata OS launch event brings these concepts to life:

• First, showing how an individual autonomous data product exposes a complete, agent-friendly interface — with metadata, guarantees, and semantic APIs.
  
  
• Then, demonstrating how Nextdata OS automatically surfaces new data products to agents, enabling continuous adaptation to evolving data ecosystems without human intervention.
  
  

This is just the start. In upcoming releases, we’ll extend deeper into autonomous lifecycle management, fine-grained access control, and even agent-driven data product generation.

👉 Watch the full discussion and see the demo.
👉 Explore how Nextdata OS enables safe, autonomous data consumption for the AI-first enterprise.

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