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About

Good data
comes 1st.

We're building the data lake rebuilt for the AI era — a single place to connect every source, query everything in plain language, and hand the keys to your agents.

01 / mission

The problem we're solving

Modern teams are drowning in data sprawl. Databases, SaaS tools, data warehouses, spreadsheets — all siloed, all requiring different skills to query, none of them ready for AI agents that need clean, fast, structured access to everything at once.

The old answer was to build a data warehouse and hire an analytics team. The new answer is 1stli: a unified query layer that connects directly to your sources, speaks plain language, and plugs straight into the AI tools and agents you're already building.

02 / how it works

A pass-through data layer

1stli is intentionally thin. We connect to your data sources — Snowflake, BigQuery, Postgres, Salesforce, Google Sheets, and dozens more — and translate natural-language or structured queries into the native dialect of each source in real time.

We don't copy your data. We don't index it. Your data stays exactly where it already lives, governed by your existing permissions and security controls. We just make it universally queryable.

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Zero data duplication

Query at source. Nothing leaves your infrastructure without your say-so.

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Agent-ready

MCP-compatible so your AI agents can query data with the same access controls as any human.

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Plain-language queries

Ask a question in English. Get back structured data. No SQL expertise required.

03 / principles

What we believe

  • Data quality is a prerequisite, not a nice-to-have. AI is only as good as the data it sees. Garbage in, garbage out — at every scale.
  • You own your data. We are a tool, not a destination. Your data lives where you choose and we never take custody of it.
  • Simplicity scales. The best data layer is one you barely notice. Fast, reliable, and invisible when working correctly.
  • AI should augment, not replace, human judgement. We build tools that make people more capable, not tools that make people redundant.

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