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In today’s data-driven world, businesses are swimming in an ocean of information. By 2025, the global data sphere is expected to reach 175 zettabytes, up from just 33 zettabytes in 2018 (IDC, 2018). Data is everywhere - streaming in from apps, devices, websites, and countless other sources. But here’s the catch: while data is abundant, actionable insights are not. Studies show that only 32% of companies report being able to realize tangible and measurable value from their data (AWS, 2021). The journey from raw data to meaningful decisions is often long, complex, and riddled with inefficiencies. 


This is why we founded Brighthive, the first and leading end-to-end agentic AI platform for enterprise complex data workflows. Our mission is to make work become data informed work by making everyone, across the enterprise, a data analyst.


The Age Old Problem - A Fragmented Data Workflow

It’s a known fact. Data is HARD. The challenge of working with data is an age old problem: data is dirty, fragmented, locked up in homegrown systems and enterprise workflows around data are complex and nuanced. The older the organization, the harder the issues. This fragmented, manual, and time-consuming nature of data work has left us feeling overwhelmed and intimidated when asked about our comfort level in working with data. Plus, very few of us are actually trained and skilled at the technical aspects of data science. Here’s what a typical workflow might look like:


  1. Data Connection and Ingestion: Teams spend weeks setting up pipelines to pull data from various sources.

  2. Data Governance: Managing who has access to what data, while staying compliant with regulations, can be a daunting task.

  3. Data Exploration: Analysts waste hours just trying to understand what’s in the data.

  4. Data Transformation: Cleaning and preparing data for analysis is a tedious, repetitive task.

  5. Data Engineering: Building scalable infrastructure requires specialized skills and significant resources.

  6. Data Analysis: By the time insights are generated, they’re often outdated.


To add to this complicated workflow, today’s Modern Data Stack (MDS) marketplace is comprised of thousands of tools for every specific data task in the workflow, offering plenty of choices - but none are comprehensive enough to support an entire workflow on their own. As a result, teams are forced to spend valuable time stitching together multiple tools just to create a complete process. And that’s not all - there’s the added challenge of ensuring these tools integrate seamlessly with one another.

The outcome? Steeper learning curves, slower time-to-insight, missed opportunities, delayed decisions, and ultimately, frustrated teams.





Meet Brighthive - The Leading Agentic AI platform for complex data workflows

We started solving this age-old problem of “data is hard” well before the arrival of ChatGPT on our cell phones in November 2022. We saw the power of agentic AI in 2020, two years before the world met OpenAI and it’s brainchild ChatGPT. Brighthive believes in the power of custom AI agents , each assigned to specific singular tasks and the agentic AI orchestration layer to ensure they work in unison to deliver an end-to-end data workflow. Just as human data engineering and data science teams are multi-faceted and nuanced in the specialized roles across a human team, a team of AI powered data agents mimics those data skills with each agent having a unique and distinct focus area. Together, they work in unison to carry out all the necessary data tasks for quality data workflows, just as a human data team would deliver valuable data workflows to their enterprise function teams. Brightbot is the supervisor agent that ensures all six agents are working together in perfect harmony and that the AI orchestration of all the tasks is delivering in the same way as human teams.


A FULL TURNKEY “DATA TEAM IN A BOX” FOR EVERYONE

Instead of relying only on those human data teams to have full capacity in support of all functions across the enterprise, you can think of the Brighthive platform as a "data team in a box" - a fully equipped, AI-powered team that handles every aspect of the data workflow, making everyone become a data analyst immediately and driving more insight sharing across the enterprise.


Brighthive takes the drudgework out of data, automating tedious tasks and freeing your team to focus on strategy and innovation. With Brightbot acting as the supervising agent, the six other specialized data agents work on the entire data workflow like a well-oiled machine. No more silos. No more bottlenecks. Just seamless, intelligent collaboration.


Why the World Needs Brighthive

The world is moving faster than ever, and businesses need to finally move from feeling they are lacking insight from their data to feeling propelled in their work where it is always data informed work. Always starting from a data point of view, rooted in evidence. Data is the key to staying competitive, but only if it is free flowing in the enterprise, accessible by all, easy to understand, and seamless to work with. Brighthive is not just another tool - it’s a paradigm shift. It’s a work transformation where the future of work, for everyone, starts with answering the question “what does the data show?” and for anyone to be able to answer that question for themselves. Simply stated, Brighthive’s agentic AI platform is re-skilling and empowering everyone to be a data analyst.


By leveraging the power of AI, we’re enabling organizations to:

  • Save Time: Automate repetitive tasks and focus on what truly matters.

  • Reduce Costs: Eliminate inefficiencies and maximize the value of your data.

  • Drive Innovation: Empower teams to experiment, iterate, and innovate without being bogged down by technical hurdles.

  • Make Better Decisions: Access real-time insights that drive smarter, faster decision-making.

  • Increase Data Maturity: By equipping everyone in the enterprise with a full data workflow and analysis capabilities, we’re accelerating company culture to be more data informed and enlightened.


At Brighthive, we’re not just building a product - we’re building a future where data fuels everyone’s work and changes it to become data informed work. Our hope and goals is to make work more interesting because it will start from a place insights. Data assets no longer have to continue to remain stale, untapped and intimidating. The future that Brighthive is trying to create is one where no single data asset is left not unlocked and the acceleration of time to insight is a KPI that all companies will care to measure on their AI adoption journey . Whether you’re a startup looking to scale or an enterprise aiming to finally unlock all the insights in your abundant and rich data assets, Brighthive is your singular partner in success.





Join the Agentic AI Revolution

The world doesn’t need more data. It needs better ways to benefit from it. Brighthive is here to lead the charge, and we’re just getting started. If you’re ready to transform your data workflow and unlock the full potential of your organization, join us on this journey.


The future of working with data is BRIGHT. Let Brighthive show you the way to accelerating time to insights from your data. Get a free trial and demo at www.brighthive.ai.


About Brighthive

Brighthive is a venture backed AI data management and analysis startup headquartered in downtown Chicago. Brighthive's pioneering approach to agentic AI enterprise data management is powered by seven specialized data agents. Each agent is designed to specialize in mission critical data tasks and is assigned to execute those specific tasks with performance evaluations that mimic the performance of human data engineers, ensuring an end to end data management workflow for enterprise teams. Brightbot orchestrates the collaboration between the seven ensuring they work together seamlessly and powering users with the full data management workflow. The company's goal is to equip every team inside the enterprise with a complete platform that mimics the full technical capabilities of human data teams, empowering everyone in the enterprise to visualize data insights faster and the organization as a whole increases its data capacity.


For more information visit www.brighthive.ai for a product tour, free trial and signing up.


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In today’s data-driven world, businesses are swimming in an ocean of information. By 2025, the global data sphere is expected to reach 175 zettabytes, up from just 33 zettabytes in 2018 (IDC, 2018). Data is everywhere - streaming in from apps, devices, websites, and countless other sources. But here’s the catch: while data is abundant, actionable insights are not. Studies show that only 32% of companies report being able to realize tangible and measurable value from their data (AWS, 2021). The journey from raw data to meaningful decisions is often long, complex, and riddled with inefficiencies. 


This is why we founded Brighthive, the first and leading end-to-end agentic AI platform for enterprise complex data workflows. Our mission is to make work become data informed work by making everyone, across the enterprise, a data analyst.


The Age Old Problem - A Fragmented Data Workflow

It’s a known fact. Data is HARD. The challenge of working with data is an age old problem: data is dirty, fragmented, locked up in homegrown systems and enterprise workflows around data are complex and nuanced. The older the organization, the harder the issues. This fragmented, manual, and time-consuming nature of data work has left us feeling overwhelmed and intimidated when asked about our comfort level in working with data. Plus, very few of us are actually trained and skilled at the technical aspects of data science. Here’s what a typical workflow might look like:


  1. Data Connection and Ingestion: Teams spend weeks setting up pipelines to pull data from various sources.

  2. Data Governance: Managing who has access to what data, while staying compliant with regulations, can be a daunting task.

  3. Data Exploration: Analysts waste hours just trying to understand what’s in the data.

  4. Data Transformation: Cleaning and preparing data for analysis is a tedious, repetitive task.

  5. Data Engineering: Building scalable infrastructure requires specialized skills and significant resources.

  6. Data Analysis: By the time insights are generated, they’re often outdated.


To add to this complicated workflow, today’s Modern Data Stack (MDS) marketplace is comprised of thousands of tools for every specific data task in the workflow, offering plenty of choices - but none are comprehensive enough to support an entire workflow on their own. As a result, teams are forced to spend valuable time stitching together multiple tools just to create a complete process. And that’s not all - there’s the added challenge of ensuring these tools integrate seamlessly with one another.

The outcome? Steeper learning curves, slower time-to-insight, missed opportunities, delayed decisions, and ultimately, frustrated teams.





Meet Brighthive - The Leading Agentic AI platform for complex data workflows

We started solving this age-old problem of “data is hard” well before the arrival of ChatGPT on our cell phones in November 2022. We saw the power of agentic AI in 2020, two years before the world met OpenAI and it’s brainchild ChatGPT. Brighthive believes in the power of custom AI agents , each assigned to specific singular tasks and the agentic AI orchestration layer to ensure they work in unison to deliver an end-to-end data workflow. Just as human data engineering and data science teams are multi-faceted and nuanced in the specialized roles across a human team, a team of AI powered data agents mimics those data skills with each agent having a unique and distinct focus area. Together, they work in unison to carry out all the necessary data tasks for quality data workflows, just as a human data team would deliver valuable data workflows to their enterprise function teams. Brightbot is the supervisor agent that ensures all six agents are working together in perfect harmony and that the AI orchestration of all the tasks is delivering in the same way as human teams.


A FULL TURNKEY “DATA TEAM IN A BOX” FOR EVERYONE

Instead of relying only on those human data teams to have full capacity in support of all functions across the enterprise, you can think of the Brighthive platform as a "data team in a box" - a fully equipped, AI-powered team that handles every aspect of the data workflow, making everyone become a data analyst immediately and driving more insight sharing across the enterprise.


Brighthive takes the drudgework out of data, automating tedious tasks and freeing your team to focus on strategy and innovation. With Brightbot acting as the supervising agent, the six other specialized data agents work on the entire data workflow like a well-oiled machine. No more silos. No more bottlenecks. Just seamless, intelligent collaboration.


Why the World Needs Brighthive

The world is moving faster than ever, and businesses need to finally move from feeling they are lacking insight from their data to feeling propelled in their work where it is always data informed work. Always starting from a data point of view, rooted in evidence. Data is the key to staying competitive, but only if it is free flowing in the enterprise, accessible by all, easy to understand, and seamless to work with. Brighthive is not just another tool - it’s a paradigm shift. It’s a work transformation where the future of work, for everyone, starts with answering the question “what does the data show?” and for anyone to be able to answer that question for themselves. Simply stated, Brighthive’s agentic AI platform is re-skilling and empowering everyone to be a data analyst.


By leveraging the power of AI, we’re enabling organizations to:

  • Save Time: Automate repetitive tasks and focus on what truly matters.

  • Reduce Costs: Eliminate inefficiencies and maximize the value of your data.

  • Drive Innovation: Empower teams to experiment, iterate, and innovate without being bogged down by technical hurdles.

  • Make Better Decisions: Access real-time insights that drive smarter, faster decision-making.

  • Increase Data Maturity: By equipping everyone in the enterprise with a full data workflow and analysis capabilities, we’re accelerating company culture to be more data informed and enlightened.


At Brighthive, we’re not just building a product - we’re building a future where data fuels everyone’s work and changes it to become data informed work. Our hope and goals is to make work more interesting because it will start from a place insights. Data assets no longer have to continue to remain stale, untapped and intimidating. The future that Brighthive is trying to create is one where no single data asset is left not unlocked and the acceleration of time to insight is a KPI that all companies will care to measure on their AI adoption journey . Whether you’re a startup looking to scale or an enterprise aiming to finally unlock all the insights in your abundant and rich data assets, Brighthive is your singular partner in success.





Join the Agentic AI Revolution

The world doesn’t need more data. It needs better ways to benefit from it. Brighthive is here to lead the charge, and we’re just getting started. If you’re ready to transform your data workflow and unlock the full potential of your organization, join us on this journey.


The future of working with data is BRIGHT. Let Brighthive show you the way to accelerating time to insights from your data. Get a free trial and demo at www.brighthive.ai.


About Brighthive

Brighthive is a venture backed AI data management and analysis startup headquartered in downtown Chicago. Brighthive's pioneering approach to agentic AI enterprise data management is powered by seven specialized data agents. Each agent is designed to specialize in mission critical data tasks and is assigned to execute those specific tasks with performance evaluations that mimic the performance of human data engineers, ensuring an end to end data management workflow for enterprise teams. Brightbot orchestrates the collaboration between the seven ensuring they work together seamlessly and powering users with the full data management workflow. The company's goal is to equip every team inside the enterprise with a complete platform that mimics the full technical capabilities of human data teams, empowering everyone in the enterprise to visualize data insights faster and the organization as a whole increases its data capacity.


For more information visit www.brighthive.ai for a product tour, free trial and signing up.


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Brighthive Makes All Work Become Data-Informed Work

Brighthive is on a mission to make all work across the enterprise become data-informed work. We see a future where everyone can start by unlocking insights from rich data assets, to inform all work streams across all teams, making your company culture more data-informed and driven. Our platform is the solution to more data-driven work. Seven pre-built AI agents for data workflows, plus your own custom agents for any enterprise workflow. Give everyone on your team their own data team. 

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