--- title: Building the Contextual Data Layer for Enterprise AI description: Enterprise AI agents often fail not because of model limitations but due to missing or incorrect context at inference time. The post explores building a... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/building-the-contextual-data-layer-for-enterprise-ai-ih8t0h8mv twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Building the Contextual Data Layer for Enterprise AI | daily.dev og:description: Enterprise AI agents often fail not because of model limitations but due to missing or incorrect context at inference time. The post explores building a... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/building-the-contextual-data-layer-for-enterprise-ai-ih8t0h8mv og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/Ih8t0h8mV.png og:image:alt: Building the Contextual Data Layer for Enterprise AI og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Building the Contextual Data Layer for Enterprise AI **[Agentic AI Context Builders](https://daily.dev/sources/agentic_ai_context_builders)** · [@markmilinkovich](https://daily.dev/markmilinkovich) · 1 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Enterprise AI agents often fail not because of model limitations but due to missing or incorrect context at inference time. The post explores building a contextual data layer to ensure AI agents reason from accurate, complete information, featuring insights from Arango's CPO & CTO on how models fail plausibly rather than gracefully. ## Content Your AI agents are answering questions. But are they answering them _correctly_? At inference time, a model only reasons from what you give it. If context is missing, it fills the gap. If context is wrong, it follows it confidently. As Ravi Marwaha, CPO & CTO of Arango, puts it: _“Models don’t fail gracefully. They fail plausibly.”_ Read the full blog with video recording: [https://arango.ai/resources/building-the-contextual-data-layer-for-enterprise-ai/](https://arango.ai/resources/building-the-contextual-data-layer-for-enterprise-ai/) ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [The Missing Layer in Enterprise AI • Arango](https://daily.dev/posts/the-missing-layer-in-enterprise-ai-arango-b3r48xkfo) · ArangoDB · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Why AI Fails Without Context — And Why Multimodel Data Platforms Are Becoming the New Enterprise Standard • Arango](https://daily.dev/posts/why-ai-fails-without-context-and-why-multimodel-data-platforms-are-becoming-the-new-enterprise-sta-szdk4g9mu) · ArangoDB · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [The Agent Context Layer for Trustworthy Data Agents](https://daily.dev/posts/the-agent-context-layer-for-trustworthy-data-agents-ksa3tmdsy) · Snowflake · 1 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#ai](https://daily.dev/tags/ai), [#llm](https://daily.dev/tags/llm), [#context-engineering](https://daily.dev/tags/context-engineering) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/building-the-contextual-data-layer-for-enterprise-ai-ih8t0h8mv) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","mainEntityOfPage":"https://daily.dev/posts/building-the-contextual-data-layer-for-enterprise-ai-ih8t0h8mv","headline":"Building the Contextual Data Layer for Enterprise AI","text":"Enterprise AI agents often fail not because of model limitations but due to missing or incorrect context at inference time. 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