AI assistants and agents can now work directly from live file shares, with existing permissions checked before any content is exposed. The capability is in a file data platform from Nasuni called AI Activate, alongside Resilio 6.0. A third product, Enterprise Search, rolls out to customers later this quarter.
Nasuni says the additions, combined with its recent acquisition of DryvIQ, create an "operational file data platform". It manages, protects and activates unstructured data from a single global namespace.
AI Activate, generally available since 30 September, connects AI to enterprise file data through the open Model Context Protocol (MCP).
It is powered by a metadata and content index, so AI spends less time and fewer tokens searching for relevant data. Permissions are enforced before AI sees any content.
That allows MCP-compatible AI platforms and agents to work from live operational files rather than a separate copy.
"With AI Activate, we can now use a front end that everyone already has, whether it's Copilot, ChatGPT or Claude, and it can reach in and actually perform these functions for our users," said Jamie Alberts, CISO and VP of IT at engineering firm Wood.
DryvIQ extends Nasuni's reach to more than 40 repositories, including Microsoft 365, Google Drive, Box, Amazon S3 and on-premises NAS.
It classifies content across 550 file formats and more than 75 languages. It identifies personal, health and payment card data and scans hundreds of terabytes a day.
Organisations can identify content that is valuable, risky, redundant, obsolete or trivial, then apply automated governance policies across the wider data estate.
Enterprise Search will add fully hosted, permission-aware full-text search across the file environment.
Resilio 6.0 uses peer-to-peer distribution to deliver governed file data to remote sites at up to 200 Gbps on commodity hardware. It needs no VPN or caching appliances.
"Every architectural decision we have made comes back to one principle: one governed copy of the data, wherever the business needs it," said Nick Burling, Chief Product Officer at Nasuni.
Burling said customer-owned object storage lets enterprises meet sovereignty and residency requirements without splitting their environment into regional silos.
Nasuni has also published PSYCHIC, a vendor-neutral framework defining seven properties of AI-ready data: proprietary, secure, yours, current, hybrid, indexed and continuous.