Richie CottonSenior Data Evangelist, DataCamp · Ask me about data and AI upskilling

The Real Reason Your AI Agent Sucks

Name: The Real Reason Your AI Agent Sucks
Uploaded: 2025-08-07T14:01:36+00:00
Duration: 33 s
Channel: Richie Cotton
Description: Most AI agents fail in companies because they can't access the unstructured data they need. Without a dedicated data layer to connect and structure…

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Most AI agents fail in companies because they can't access the unstructured data they need. Without a dedicated data layer to connect and structure enterprise information, agents can't leverage what the company actually knows.

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One piece that we're specifically excited about that I think a lot of developers and also companies tend to not think about as much is really the data problem. I think for a lot of these agents, they need access to massive amounts of unstructured enterprise data that they don't necessarily. They're not necessarily trained on at the beginning. And for them to actually access this data and interact with it in the right way, there has to be some sort of data layer to actually process, connect, ingest this data, structure it in the right ways, and then also serve it up as tools to an AI agent.