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RudderStack Accelerates AI-Native Growth

RudderStack has announced its latest innovation: infrastructure-as-code (IaC) driven governance capabilities for customer data infrastructure. This advancement promises to significantly enhance how organizations operationalize AI through reliable and real-time customer context. In an age where data integrity is paramount, RudderStack is positioning itself as the pivotal player in the customer context engine for the burgeoning AI landscape.

In a remarkable surge of growth, RudderStack reported delivering an astonishing 3.3 trillion events across 4,000 organizations in 2025 alone. Among its growing clientele are numerous AI-native companies, such as AssemblyAI, Otter.ai, and Warp, indicating RudderStack’s expanding influence in the AI sector.

The Importance of Trustworthy Data in AI

As companies implement AI systems, the reliability of these systems hinges on the quality of the customer context they utilize. With AI agents now moving from experimental prototypes to essential tools in support, sales, and personalization workflows, the demand for accurate and privacy-compliant customer data is unprecedented. RudderStack's recent enhancements seek to empower data teams to provide trustworthy customer information, ensuring that AI applications operate effectively and securely.

RudderStack's offerings surpass traditional customer data platforms in multiple ways. The company provides real-time data pipelines, proactive tools for data quality assurance and compliance, identity resolution, and a robust customer data semantic layer tailored for data warehouses. This comprehensive architecture leverages the existing data warehouse as the leading source of customer information to ensure consistency and freshness at scale.

Empowering Data Teams

With these capabilities, data teams can:

• - Collect and govern data from various channels in real-time.
• - Unify data within the warehouse to construct comprehensive customer profiles.
• - Activate customer context on-demand for analytics, AI, and other applications.

According to Soumyadeb Mitra, the Founder and CEO of RudderStack, “The rise of AI has set new standards for customer data. AI agents necessitate accurate and real-time customer insights, which calls for our innovative approaches to data governance and management.”

The Value of IaC-Driven Governance

One of the standout features introduced by RudderStack is an IaC-driven governance model, addressing primary concerns regarding data quality that many organizations face. This new governance structure allows teams to manage their data catalog and tracking plans in a code-based format.

Some key features of this governance model include:

• - Code-based tracking plans and data catalogs: Organizations can define their tracking requirements through version-controlled configuration files, ensuring that data governance is manageable and efficient.
• - Continuous Integration (CI) validation: All governance changes can automatically be validated against the system to ensure consistency before deployment, mitigating the risks of potential disruptions in production.
• - Developer-friendly workflows: Governance changes can be deployed using code-centric processes, promoting reliability without hampering productivity.

In addition, RudderStack has released incremental performance improvements for its customer 360 product,