Snowflake has introduced a research preview of Project SnowWork, a new autonomous AI platform aimed at handling complex business tasks from start to finish with minimal human input.
The system is designed to let business users simply describe what they need using conversational prompts. From there, the platform can plan, analyze, and execute entire workflows on its own—producing outputs such as reports, presentations, and actionable insights without requiring manual effort.
According to CEO Sridhar Ramaswamy, the company sees this as a shift toward what he calls the “agentic enterprise,” where AI systems don’t just assist but actively carry out work. The goal, he suggested, is to enable teams to move quickly from asking questions to getting results.
Project SnowWork is currently being made available to a limited group of customers. It operates within Snowflake’s secure and governed data environment, allowing it to run tasks like forecasting, customer churn analysis, and supply chain evaluations while maintaining strict data controls.
The platform is built to independently manage multi-step processes, generate insights along with recommended actions, and coordinate tasks across different enterprise systems—all while ensuring compliance with governance and security standards.
This launch reflects a broader industry shift, as companies move beyond AI tools that only provide insights toward systems capable of taking direct action based on data. Snowflake says SnowWork brings together enterprise data, intelligence, and applications into a unified framework that can execute tasks at scale.
Project SnowWork also builds on the company’s wider AI ecosystem, including Snowflake Intelligence and tools like Cortex Code, with a focus on helping users go from data queries to real execution without relying heavily on technical teams.
The announcement follows Snowflake’s $200 million collaboration with OpenAI, which is focused on embedding advanced AI models into enterprise data workflows as part of its broader push into automation-driven solutions.
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