Enabling the Agentic Enterprise with Redpanda — Poolside

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.