Wisdom AI debuts agentic data analysts to deliver a continuous stream of business insights
Artificial intelligence-native data insights startup Wisdom AI Inc. is expanding its platform today with the launch of Proactive Agents.
The agents act like automated data analysts and work around the clock to proactively learn, prepare analyses and reports and make decisions based on the insights they surface. WisdomAI first came to attention in May when it closed on $23 million in funding and has wasted little time in putting that money to use, expanding its AI insights platform to encompass new "agentic" capabilities.
The new agents are able to carry out data analysis work without human supervision, freeing up human workers to focus on more strategic work, the company said. The startup uses AI "reasoning" models in combination with a knowledge fabric, which acts like a connective tissue among different data sources, such as data lakes, data warehouses and databases. It unites these disconnected resources for deeper analysis with added context in order to generate more meaningful insights.
The Proactive Agents utilize the knowledge fabric to find answers to questions from human workers, such as marketing or sales team personnel. Alternatively, they can simply wait in the background, keeping a watchful eye on key business metrics, and issue alerts when certain milestones, thresholds or targets are met. They're a key part of the company's vision to make AI data analysts available to every business, regardless of size, designed to handle tasks such as repetitive monitoring, key performance indicator checks and reporting.
Wisdom AI said its agents are intelligent, always-on AI analysts that deeply understand business context. They work by autonomously scanning and analyzing KPIs to detect meaningful deviations. When this happens, they'll carry out an in-depth analysis to explain why it occurred, and then provide a simple, natural language summary for human decision-makers.
The idea is that it can help businesses to make decisions faster, because they won't have to wait until a human data analyst finds the time to perform the necessary investigation, said Wisdom AI co-founder and Chief Executive Soham Mazumdar. That's a big advantage, he believes, because no company can hire unlimited data analysts, and many smaller firms operate without them.
"Data analysts have long been the gatekeepers of insights," Mazumdar explained. "Proactive Agents change that, acting as AI teammates that scale the data team's capacity, democratizing access to analyst-grade work.
One of the main advantages of Wisdom AI's Proactive Agents is their ability to learn continuously as they perform their work, remembering earlier analyses they've carried out, including what caused certain anomalies to occur. They're programmed to flag any meaningful shifts in business metrics and then dig deeper into the reasons why by carrying out exhaustive root cause analysis.
As part of this, they'll identify which segments of the business were affected, over how long a time frame. And they'll dig up evidence to support their findings, so they can be verified by any human worker. Once the agents are ready to report their findings, they'll transform the patterns they've identified into a concise, actionable alert, complete with any useful charts, SQL queries and recommendations, the company said.
Early adopters say Wisdom AI's Proactive Agents have had a tremendous impact on their productivity. Victor Garate, director of business intelligence at HomeStory Real Estate Services Inc., said human capital has always been his company's biggest bottleneck. "With Proactive Agents, those limits disappear and insights scale automatically, giving us leverage we simply couldn't achieve before," he said.
