Dataiku launches governed AI workflow builder inside Snowflake

Dataiku Inc. today announced a deeper integration with Snowflake Inc. aimed at simplifying the creation of enterprise AI agents while preserving governance and operational controls, a growing concern as organizations move experimental generative AI projects into production.

The new offering, called Cobuild on Snowflake, combines Snowflake Cortex AI services with Dataiku’s orchestration platform to enable business and technical users to create AI workflows and agents using natural-language prompts. The companies said the integration is designed to turn business intent into production-ready workflows that can be reviewed, governed and deployed entirely within Snowflake environments.

The announcement reflects Dataiku’s broader strategy to position itself as an orchestration and governance layer for enterprise AI systems rather than simply a data analytics platform. Over the past year, the company has steadily expanded its focus on agentic AI, introducing capabilities that help enterprises manage large numbers of AI agents, coordinate workflows and maintain visibility into how automated systems behave.

Dataiku said governance, observability and cost management will become essential differentiators as agentic AI moves beyond isolated pilots into large-scale operational environments.

Cobuild on Snowflake attempts to address some common concerns by exposing workflow logic visually before deployment rather than relying solely on generated code. Users can describe a business objective in natural language, and the system automatically generates a Dataiku workflow for data preparation, machine learning models, AI agents and applications. Teams can then inspect, validate and modify the workflow before it is deployed.

The integration builds on a lonstanding partnership between the two companies. Snowflake is an investor and the firms share more than 350 customers globally. Existing collaborations include integrations around visual data preparation, machine learning training on Snowpark Container Services, real-time and batch inference, Apache Iceberg catalog support and Snowflake Cortex AI services.

Snowflake Cortex AI is a managed AI service inside the Snowflake Data Cloud that provides direct access to large language models, vector search and related AI services. Under the new arrangement, code generation and workflow execution remain inside customers’ Snowflake environments and are accessed through secure application programming interfaces.

The announcement also highlights a growing industry trend toward typing AI processing directly to existing governance and security controls without requiring extensive data copies and transfers.

Dataiku is framing itself as a control layer for those environments. Last year the company introduced AI agents designed to unify enterprise agent deployments and later launched Agent Hub, a centralized management framework intended to give organizations more oversight into how autonomous workflows are built and operated.

The software will initially be available to joint Snowflake and Dataiku customers, with broader access planned later for Snowflake customers evaluating Dataiku.

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