THE ALATION INTELLIGENCE OPERATING SYSTEM
When you have to get your AI right.
Everyone can stand up an intelligent data app or agent. Almost no one can keep it right. AIOS is the operating system to keep your agents, context, and data current, governed, and improving — so everything holds up long after the initial pilot.
WHAT’s inside
What it actually looks like
to “get your AI right.”
One system of agents, context, and data. Governance wraps every layer.
The platform stays open at every edge. And feedback loops run through all of it.
01 •THE FOUNDATION
Data
Know your data
The trusted record of what data you have and what it actually means. The foundation every other layer stands on.
CATALOG
One system of record for every data asset across the enterprise. Search ranks by trust and real usage, so the right starting point surfaces first, not just the closest name match.
LINEAGE
Every figure traces back to its source, column by column, through every transformation. When someone asks where a number came from, the answer is already on the screen.
Quality
Trust is scored automatically and surfaced at the moment of decision, so a deprecated source can't quietly end up in a board deck.
CURATION
Documentation that keeps pace with the data. Alation drafts descriptions and surfaces what your best analysts already rely on, so curation runs at the speed of your data estate.
01 •THE FOUNDATION
Data
Know your data
The trusted record of what data you have and what it actually means. The foundation every other layer stands on.
CATALOG
One system of record for every data asset across the enterprise. Search ranks by trust and real usage, so the right starting point surfaces first, not just the closest name match.
LINEAGE
Every figure traces back to its source, column by column, through every transformation. When someone asks where a number came from, the answer is already on the screen.
Quality
Trust is scored automatically and surfaced at the moment of decision, so a deprecated source can't quietly end up in a board deck.
CURATION
Documentation that keeps pace with the data. Alation drafts descriptions and surfaces what your best analysts already rely on, so curation runs at the speed of your data estate.
02 •THE REASONING
Context
Make it meaningful
Context turns cataloged data into business intelligence that agents can reason over. Definitions, rules, and relationships tell agents how your organization actually works.
PRODUCTS
Governed data packaged into certified, reusable products. The Data Product builder helps you create them with lineage, contracts, and policy baked in before anything publishes.
Marketplace
Discover, consume, govern, and manage data products all in one place. People browse, agents connect programmatically. Same governance, same products, same trust.
ONTOLOGIES
The relationships between your business concepts are governed so "customer" or "active account" means one thing across the whole company.
SEMANTICS
Your semantic layer, wherever it lives. Alation ingests semantic models from your existing BI tools and platforms, rather than forcing a rewrite.
02 •THE REASONING
Context
Make it meaningful
Context turns cataloged data into business intelligence that agents can reason over. Definitions, rules, and relationships tell agents how your organization actually works.
PRODUCTS
Governed data packaged into certified, reusable products. The Data Product builder helps you create them with lineage, contracts, and policy baked in before anything publishes.
Marketplace
Discover, consume, govern, and manage data products all in one place. People browse, agents connect programmatically. Same governance, same products, same trust.
ONTOLOGIES
The relationships between your business concepts are governed so "customer" or "active account" means one thing across the whole company.
SEMANTICS
Your semantic layer, wherever it lives. Alation ingests semantic models from your existing BI tools and platforms, rather than forcing a rewrite.
03 •THE ACTION
Agents
Put it to work
Our Agent Studio lets you build agents that take action and prove they’re acting correctly with evals before they ever reach production.
NATIVE
Pre-built agents are grounded in certified metadata from the start, without requiring configuration steps. These agents do the work that used to slow teams down. More are being added every day.
CUSTOM
The logic, connectors, and prompts are yours to configure, grounded in the same certified metadata that governs every native agent.
FLOWS
Orchestrate agents into a deterministic flow, with policies and access controls carried through every handoff.
03 •THE ACTION
Agents
Put it to work
Our Agent Studio lets you build agents that take action and prove they’re acting correctly with evals before they ever reach production.
NATIVE
Pre-built agents are grounded in certified metadata from the start, without requiring configuration steps. These agents do the work that used to slow teams down. More are being added every day.
CUSTOM
The logic, connectors, and prompts are yours to configure, grounded in the same certified metadata that governs every native agent.
FLOWS
Orchestrate agents into a deterministic flow, with policies and access controls carried through every handoff.
04 •THE WRAPPER
Governance
Trust that travels
Policies enforced across every layer — not bolted on at the end. Control travels with the data wherever it goes.
AI GOVERNANCE
Register every model, agent, and AI tool. Map each to the applicable regulations. Get live executive compliance posture updates, generate model cards, and route approvals through regulation-aware workflows.
CRITICAL DATA
Your highest-stakes data elements get dedicated governance: agent-assisted identification, automated mapping, continuous quality monitoring, and audit-ready evidence.
POLICIES
Define standards once and enforce them everywhere the data goes, whether a person or agent is asking.
WORKFLOWS
Approvals, reviews, and stewardship tasks automatically route to the right people. Governance keeps pace with the business instead of chasing it.
04 •THE WRAPPER
Governance
Trust that travels
Policies enforced across every layer — not bolted on at the end. Control travels with the data wherever it goes.
AI GOVERNANCE
Register every model, agent, and AI tool. Map each to the applicable regulations. Get live executive compliance posture updates, generate model cards, and route approvals through regulation-aware workflows.
CRITICAL DATA
Your highest-stakes data elements get dedicated governance: agent-assisted identification, automated mapping, continuous quality monitoring, and audit-ready evidence.
POLICIES
Define standards once and enforce them everywhere the data goes, whether a person or agent is asking.
WORKFLOWS
Approvals, reviews, and stewardship tasks automatically route to the right people. Governance keeps pace with the business instead of chasing it.
05 •THE FLYWHEEL
Self-improving
In every layer
Corrections, evals, and decision traces flow back into data, context, and agents constantly, across apps. Every interaction makes the next answer better.
FEEDBACK LOOPS
When an agent gets something wrong, the correction routes to the right layer. Fixes improve every agent that touches that context, not just one output.
INTELLIGENT TRIAGE
All feedback, approvals, and issues go to one place, to help you prioritize what needs attention and direct AI to do better work on your behalf.
05 •THE FLYWHEEL
Self-improving
In every layer
Corrections, evals, and decision traces flow back into data, context, and agents constantly, across apps. Every interaction makes the next answer better.
FEEDBACK LOOPS
When an agent gets something wrong, the correction routes to the right layer. Fixes improve every agent that touches that context, not just one output.
INTELLIGENT TRIAGE
All feedback, approvals, and issues go to one place, to help you prioritize what needs attention and direct AI to do better work on your behalf.
06 •THE GATEWAY
Open
Open by design
Your stack connected. 120+ connectors and open standards let Alation read across everything you run and push governed context back into the tools your teams already work in. Nothing moves or locks you in.
CONNECTORS
Any model, any warehouse, any semantic layer, any storage. Open interfaces and standards. Your data stays where it lives.
STANDARDS
MCP, OSI, OpenLineage, OWL, RDF, SHACL, SCIM, SAML, OAuth, OAS and ODPS — and more — do the connecting, even to the platforms you're invested in elsewhere.
BRING YOUR OWN MODEL
GPT, Claude, open source, or custom. You can use any model, yes even your own, to do the work.
IN YOUR APP
Do the work in the apps your team already lives in, Slack, Teams, or email.
06 •THE GATEWAY
Open
Open by design
Your stack connected. 120+ connectors and open standards let Alation read across everything you run and push governed context back into the tools your teams already work in. Nothing moves or locks you in.
CONNECTORS
Any model, any warehouse, any semantic layer, any storage. Open interfaces and standards. Your data stays where it lives.
STANDARDS
MCP, OSI, OpenLineage, OWL, RDF, SHACL, SCIM, SAML, OAuth, OAS and ODPS — and more — do the connecting, even to the platforms you're invested in elsewhere.
BRING YOUR OWN MODEL
GPT, Claude, open source, or custom. You can use any model, yes even your own, to do the work.
IN YOUR APP
Do the work in the apps your team already lives in, Slack, Teams, or email.
ALATION
Data isn’t software, and it isn’t built once.
GET IT RIGHT
Build, Observe, Improve, Repeat
Build any intelligent data app you want — on AIOS.
With AIOS™, all of your intelligent chat apps, embedded applications, agentic dashboards, and automations remain open, governed, and self-improving so you can trust them. Every time.
01_ Governed Trust that travels with your data.
02_ Open Your systems connected. Your knowledge stays yours.
03_ Self-Improving Every interaction improves accuracy over time.
What you can do with it
Our solutions compound your business intelligence.
You can solve your highest-stakes business problems with AIOS.
Agentic Compliance
Prove it on demand, not when the auditor calls.
Conversational Analytics
Ask in plain language. Get answers you can defend.
Agentic Data Governance
Control, context, and lineage — so every decision holds up.
Agentic Automation
With Agent Studio, automate processes with data you can trust.
AI Governance
Govern AI by use case, with proof already assembled.
PROOF, NOT PROMISES
Trusted in production. By hundreds of the Fortune 1000.
More than 500 enterprises — manufacturers, gaming platforms, and research houses — depend on Alation and AIOS every day, well after Day 90.
AIOS LEARNS, GOVERNS, AND ACTS
Data gets up-leveled for AI advantage.
AIOS is what the data catalog was building toward: continuously governed and improving intelligent applications. Now, your agents can truly trust your data — and you can trust your agents.
Do I have to build all my agents in AIOS?
No. AIOS is an operating system, not a walled garden. Build agents where you already work — Claude Code, n8n, Microsoft 365 — and connect them through open interfaces and standards. AIOS gives every one of them the governed data and context to stay right.
How is AIOS different from a “context layer?”
A context layer hands a model better information once, then calls the job done. But context, data, and prompts drift — and a static layer can’t tell you what broke. AIOS runs data, context, agents, and governance as one system, with feedback across all of it.
I have a data catalog. Do I still need AIOS?
Yes, because they solve different problems. Your catalog gives you the foundation: lineage, metadata, and ownership. AIOS sits on top of that foundation and turns your governed data into AI agents you can trust, keeping those agents accurate even as your data changes.
How is this different from what Snowflake offers?
Snowflake governs data inside Snowflake. But your data estate isn't just Snowflake, it's NoSQL databases, APIs, BI tools, and platforms like Databricks and SAP, too. AIOS is built to span all of it. Instead of governing each platform separately, it gives your agents one governed context across the entire enterprise, not a patchwork of vendor silos.