Entries by Aparavi

Smarter Copilot Starts With Smarter Data: A Practical Blueprint From the Field

If Copilot is your AI co-pilot, your unstructured data is the runway. If it’s cluttered, inconsistent, or overexposed, you won’t get liftoff – you’ll get mistrust, policy risk, and “why did it show that?” moments. What follows is a field-tested blueprint for getting Microsoft 365 environments Copilot-ready fast, drawn from a recent professional-services deployment we […]

Lessons from Our Palo Alto Session on Data Engineering Summit

On August 21, 2025 in Palo Alto, CA, we shared a live, code-forward session at the Data Engineering Summit. Rather than recap the event blow-by-blow, this post distills the practical takeaways teams can apply now, especially if you’re preparing unstructured data for AI, tightening data privacy, and building multimodal workflows. Alongside vector database leaders Pinecone […]

When Permissions Become the Weak Link in AI Success

Microsoft Copilot is quickly becoming the crown jewel of enterprise productivity. It promises to unlock the knowledge inside your data, make work faster, and surface insights that matter. But here’s the catch: if your data isn’t clean, structured, and permissioned correctly, Copilot doesn’t just speed up productivity, it speeds up risk (basically giving your out […]

Munich Coding Vibes — Windsurf × Aparavi Workshop Recap

We teamed up with Windsurf at Aparavi’s Munich office on 07/31/2025 for a fast, hands-on night of building production-ready, natural-language apps. Using Windsurf’s agentic IDE and Aparavi’s MCP server, attendees turned raw PDFs, videos, and spreadsheets into working AI apps, then battle-tested them in a friendly code challenge. Workshop highlights Aparavi intro — How MCP […]

Hacking Agents AI Meetup w/ Langflow — July Edition Recap

We brought the Hacking Agents community together at AWS Builder Loft in San Francisco on 07/31/2025 for fast demos, real use cases, and hands-on learning with AI agents. The highlight: how Aparavi’s Data Toolchain and MCP server connect to Langflow for natural-language workflows on unstructured data. Speaker highlights Mansi More (Aparavi) — Unlocking legacy archives […]

When Can AI Make Good Decisions? Only When Your Data Can, Too.

There’s a lot of buzz about AI decision-making and for good reason. The promise of AI is massive: faster operations, sharper predictions, smarter automation. But here’s the truth few are eager to admit: AI is only as good as the data feeding it. A recent McKinsey article dives into the concept of AI as a […]

The Unstructured Data Challenge: Turning Information into Intelligence

Ever feel overwhelmed by the sheer volume of unstructured data? With 80 to 90% of all new enterprise data being unstructured, businesses face the challenge of transforming this unorganized data into something valuable.  Unstructured data exists in various forms, from emails and documents to social media posts, yet it’s often siloed and disconnected from actionable […]

Why GenAI Programs Fail: It’s Not the Model—It’s the Data

Generative AI is everywhere right now. The possibilities are exciting: tailored customer experiences, faster workflows, new revenue streams. But here’s the problem no one wants to say out loud: most GenAI programs are failing. A recent McKinsey article, “Overcoming two issues that are sinking GenAI programs,” highlights the common stumbling blocks—companies don’t know how to […]