AI agents are missing all the discussions your team is having. SageOX has an answer: agentic context infrastructure
Why this matters: a development in AI with implications for how people work, create, and decide.
As AI model providers increasingly move downstream, launching products and agents for specific enterprise applications and sectors like finance, one big question still remains: how will said AI agents be equipped with the proper context surrounding a task — who assigned it, which other stakeholders are involved, what data or discussions have taken place about it and how it should be done? This practice of "context engineering" remains one of the great unsolved problems of the AI era. But Sage Ox, a Seattle-based startup founded by the veterans who built the original AWS EC2 and EBS infrastructure, believes it has the answer: a new systems layer it calls "agentic context infrastructure."Using a combination of small hardware recording devices and the existing applications enterprises already rely on — Slack, email, documents, files — and applying new, open-source frameworks and instructions atop it all, SageOX has developed a system by which enterprises can keep agents as "in-the-loop" and updated on the enterprise's tasks as their human employees are, and prevent them from "drifting" off their assigned tasks and the firm's larger goals. “We are capturing all of this context where it happens," said Ajit Banerjee, founder and CEO of SageOX and a former Hugging Face, Meta, Amazon and Apple engineer said in a recent video call interview with VentureBeat. "Product development is a team sport, and the context doesn’t just come from people typing on a keyboard. It happens in conversations.”By capturing the "why" behind the "what"—the intent that lives in Slack threads, whiteboarding sessions, and water-cooler conversations—SageOx aims to provide a "hivemind" that ensures agents don't drift and humans stay in flow."The way people have to work is not old-school coordination, where I write down an issue and then it goes through a sequence. It has to be almost like playing jazz," Banerjee added.Today, the company emerged from stealth to announce its $15 million se