# The operating system for AI-built tools > Substrait is the operating system for AI-built tools. Your people build with the AI they already use; Substrait puts what they build live in one click, keeps every data flow under your control, secures it to your organisation's own rules, and adds productivity tools for an AI-enabled workforce. URL: https://substrait.build/ Last updated: 2026-11-10 Your people build with the AI they already use. Substrait puts what they build live, keeps every data flow under your control, and secures it to your organisation's own rules. - **Build: go live in one click.** Your people build with the AI model they already use, and one click puts each tool live. [See how](#build-go-live-in-one-click) - **Data: every data flow, under your control.** One gateway, and every flow approved by the data owner. [See how](#data-every-data-flow-under-your-control) - **Security: configured exactly for your organisation.** Your own rules, a check on every release, and a full audit trail. [See how](#security-configured-exactly-for-your-organisation) - **Productivity: your people's AI, working as one team.** Slate, templates, Agentic Builder and the communications centre. [See how](#productivity-your-peoples-ai-working-as-one-team) ## For organisations with an AI-enabled workforce Your people already use AI every day. Substrait helps them turn that into tools for their work, built safely instead of adding to shadow IT. People build five kinds of tool on Substrait, and Substrait governs and runs all five. - **Web apps.** Screens and data for a team's daily work. - **Agents.** They act on company systems for a named person. - **Slates.** Living pages a team builds together. - **Knowledge bases.** Each person sees only what they may see. - **Skills.** They teach the AI how your company works. | Team | What they build | Kind of tool | |---|---|---| | Operations | **A dispatch dashboard.** It shows today's deliveries live from the ERP, flags the late ones, and lets a dispatcher reassign a driver. The data owner approved the read. | Web app | | Sales | **A client portal.** Each key client signs in by a link and sees their own orders, invoices and deliveries, with no company account. | Web app | | Finance | **A month-end reconciliation tool.** It replaces the reconciliation spreadsheet: it matches bank lines to the ledger, lists what does not match, and sends the result to the controller to approve. | Web app | | HR | **A leave agent.** It answers leave questions from the policy and each person's balance, and sends a request to the manager for approval. | Agent | | A programme team | **A programme Slate.** One page for a cross-team project: the plan, the decisions and the status. Each member adds their part through their own AI, which draws on the whole shared project. | Slate | | Customer service | **A service knowledge base.** Policies and past cases that the team's AI answers from. Each person sees only the parts their role allows. | Knowledge base | | Procurement | **A supplier assessment skill.** It teaches everyone's AI how the company assesses a new supplier, using the supplier data the data owner approved, so every assessment follows the same steps. | Skill | ## Build: go live in one click Your people build with the AI model they already use, such as Claude in Claude Code, Cursor or the Claude desktop app. Today, a tool built with AI usually stays on a laptop, runs on someone else's servers outside your security, or waits in IT's queue to be packaged. On Substrait, one click puts it live, through the security check, on your company's own setup. - **Fitted to your company.** Every build carries your design language, your sign-in and your infrastructure stack. - **Everything a tool needs.** A database, file storage, dev and production, monitoring and rollback come with every tool. - **No orphaned tools.** Every tool has a named owner, and ownership moves to someone else when people move on. [How building on Substrait works](https://substrait.build/build/) ## Data: every data flow, under your control Substrait brokers every flow of data between your systems and your AI-built tools. Today, a tool built with AI usually reaches company data through a key pasted into its code, a shared login, or a copy of the data in a spreadsheet. Nobody can then say which tool read what, or who allowed it. On Substrait, every flow goes through one gateway, under a grant the data owner approved.
One grant on Substrait: the Returns tracker may read Orders, read-only, approved by the finance data owner, for 90 days, with every read on record.
- **Approved by the data owner, for a set time.** The person who owns the data decides each flow, from their inbox. - **No keys in the tools.** Substrait holds every credential, so builders never handle one. - **Every read on record.** Each read is recorded with the tool and the person behind it. - **Any flow switched off at once.** A withdrawn grant refuses the tool's very next call, with no redeploy. Your people's tools reach your ERP systems and your data warehouse, and your organisation decides every flow. [How Substrait controls every data flow](https://substrait.build/data/) ## Security: configured exactly for your organisation Today, security either blocks AI-built tools or never sees them, and one fixed rulebook rarely fits a whole company. On Substrait, every release is checked before production, and your organisation decides how strict each check is. - **Your rules, not one rulebook.** Set your own risk tiers, approvers and deadlines, strict where the risk is. - **Checked before production.** Every release is scanned, and high-risk changes go to a person to review. - **Approve once, then change freely.** An approval sets a boundary, and changes inside it need no new review. - **A full audit trail.** Every access, change, approval and agent action is recorded, and nobody can alter it. [How Substrait security works](https://substrait.build/security/)
Substrait console: a tool's release has passed the security check and is cleared for production.
A release, cleared for production. Product UI. Sample data.
## Productivity: your people's AI, working as one team Most companies give each person an AI assistant, and each one works alone, knowing only its own person. Substrait's productivity tools connect them, so your people, their AI and the tools they build plan, start, build and decide together. - **Think together: Slate.** One living page for the whole team, where each person's AI reads the whole project. - **Start from what works: Templates.** Common business software on Substrait's best practice, already wired to your company. - **Ask, and it gets built: Agentic Builder.** A request in plain words joins a board, build agents build it, and the owner takes it live. - **Stay in the loop: the communications centre.** One pre-wired exchange for every alert, approval and message, so no tool builds its own. [How the productivity tools work together](https://substrait.build/productivity/) ## A platform, and the people to stand it up Start on your own, or with Substrait's team beside you. Every way runs on the same Substrait. | Way to start | What you get | |---|---| | **On your own, no setup fee** | A fast setup on Substrait's cloud that you configure yourself. There is no setup fee; you pay only for seats. | | **Set up in your own cloud** | Substrait's forward-deployed team sets up and configures Substrait in your cloud, to your rules | | **The Academy** | Training that teaches your people to build, with Substrait as the lab they learn in | | **Build with us** | Substrait's team rebuilds your existing systems, or builds new modules for you, all on Substrait | ## Questions and answers ### What is Substrait? Substrait is the operating system for AI-built tools, for a company and its employees. People who are not engineers build tools with the AI model they already use. Substrait puts each tool live in one click, keeps every data flow under the company's control, and secures it to your organisation's own rules, on Substrait's cloud or inside the company's own cloud. ### Who is Substrait for? Substrait is for organisations with an AI-enabled workforce: companies whose people use AI every day and want that to become better tools for their work. It fits teams with real company data and real approvals to protect. ### Which AI models does Substrait work with? Substrait works with the AI model your people already use. A plugin connects Claude Code, the Claude desktop app and Cursor to Substrait. Substrait governs what arrives, whichever AI model wrote it. ### What is a Slate? A Slate is a living page that a team builds together, each person through their own AI. Each person's AI draws on the whole shared project, not only on that person's own context. It holds what a deck or a document cannot, such as interactive charts, dashboards, tables to fill in and animated process flows, and it stays behind the company sign-in. ### How is Substrait priced? Substrait charges a monthly seat for each person who builds, approves or administers tools. A team that sets itself up on Substrait's cloud pays no setup fee. When Substrait's team sets it up, there is a one-time setup fee, sized to the scope. There is no platform fee. The tools are free and unlimited, and people who only use the tools are never charged. Prices are set in a conversation, not published.