Snowflake Cortex Agents

What you get

the numbers that matter

Starting price

Priced on scope

starting price

Ready in

≈ 2 weeks

signed to first PR

Retention

96%

engagements renewed

Match

96%

to your stack & domain

Enterprise agents from Snowflake that orchestrate access to structured and unstructured data and tools inside the Snowflake platform.

How this operator works

every way of working, already decided

A · capability focus

Owns the system, not the ticket

Takes end-to-end ownership of a service or surface. Design, delivery, on-call. And is measured on outcomes, not hours.

B · ways of working

Embedded, async-first, instrumented

Works inside your repos, your CI and your rituals. Daily written standups, decisions logged. No status-meeting tax.

C · reliability posture

Runbooks, canaries, reversible deploys

Every change gated and reversible. Incidents get a timeline and a postmortem; nothing ships without a rollback.

D · comms & cadence

Plugged into your Slack & rituals

Joins standups and retros, reports weekly against the goal. You get an operator, not a queue.

E · tooling

Brings a pre-wired stack or adopts yours

Infrastructure and observability as code by default. No bespoke setup tax to absorb.

F · onboarding

Scoped, gated, reversible

Week-1 shadow, week-2 ownership, swap on request inside the trial window. No long-tail handover risk.

Overview

Snowflake Cortex Agents are enterprise agents that run inside Snowflake. They orchestrate access to structured and unstructured data and to tools, so users and applications can ask questions and trigger work against governed Snowflake data without moving it out of the platform.

Through Scrums.com, Snowflake Cortex Agents is listed on the catalog and deployed by Scrums.com delivery teams. They integrate it into your stack, apply your governance rules, and track its operation on the SEOP.

What it does

Structured-data querying

Agents answer questions over structured data in Snowflake, translating requests into governed data access.

Unstructured-data retrieval

Agents also draw on unstructured content managed in Snowflake, combining it with tabular data in one response.

Tool orchestration

Agents plan across data access and tools, sequencing the steps needed to complete a request.

Snowflake-native governance

Access follows Snowflake's existing role-based access controls, so agents only see what the querying user is allowed to see.

Deploying it with Scrums.com

Scope. Scrums.com runs a fit assessment against your workflows and governance requirements, including which datasets and roles agents should serve.
Integrate. Scrums.com engineers wire it into your repos, pipelines and tools with guardrails, building the agents against your Snowflake account, semantic definitions and access roles.
Operate. The deployment runs under governance, with usage and outcome reporting via the SEOP.

Commercial availability

Cortex Agents are a commercial capability of the Snowflake platform, billed on Snowflake's consumption model. Procurement runs through your Snowflake agreement; Scrums.com supports the commercial process as part of a deployment.

FAQs

How is this different from a BI dashboard?

Dashboards answer pre-built questions. Cortex Agents take open requests, plan across structured and unstructured data and tools, and return grounded answers - inside Snowflake governance.

What does deployment need?

A Snowflake account with Cortex features enabled in your region, plus roles, warehouses and data definitions for the agents to work against.

How is data access controlled?

Agents operate inside Snowflake and inherit its access controls; data does not leave the platform for the agent to use it. Scrums.com maps agent scopes to your roles and records usage on the SEOP.

What's included

in every engagement · no add-ons

✓Structured-data queryingincl.

✓Unstructured-data retrievalincl.

✓Tool orchestrationincl.

✓Snowflake-native governanceincl.

Track record

deployments on real systems · anonymized

SectorSystemOutcomeSpanStatus

Fintechpayments-core ledger99.97% achieved14 mocomplete

Commercecheckout platform−38% incident rate9 mocomplete

Health SaaSdata plane0 SEV1 in 6 mo11 moactive

Logisticsrouting enginezero-downtime cutover7 mocomplete

AI infrainference clusterp99 −120 ms5 moactive

Works inside your stack

surfaces this operator binds to

SurfaceBindingDirectionAuth

Source controlgithub.com/<org>reviews + writesOIDC

CI / CDscm-flow · deploy-servicegates deploysOIDC

Observabilityotlp://collector:4317metrics + alertsmTLS

Commsslack://<workspace>standups, incidentsSSO

Secretsvault://scrums/op/<id>short-lived credsSPIFFE

On-callpagerduty://<org>primary / secondaryAPI token

Boundaries

what to deploy instead

Scoped to this discipline. For an adjacent capability, compose a second operator into the squad. compose →

Not a fractional advisory engagement. For advisory-only, contact platform@scrums.com.

Deployments

the only social proof we publish

402deploys

across 38 organizations

+24 last 30 days · median age 11.4 mo · retention 96%

Live telemetry

this operator's system surface

system map

signals · last 24h

deploys18

p99 latency112 ms

error rate0.02%

incidents0

Pricing

one number · one footnote

starting price

Priced on scope

All-in: the operator, delivery manager and replacement guarantee. No recruiter fee, no markup surprises.

Final pricing computed at deploy from your committed envelope, region and account tier.

FAQ

common questions

How is Snowflake Cortex Agents priced?+

Priced on scope. Request a quote and pricing is computed from the work envelope.

Is Snowflake Cortex Agents available now?+

Yes. It is published and deployable directly from the Scrums.com catalog.

Can a Snowflake Cortex Agents deployment be reversed?+

Yes. Deployments are reversible with a one-click swap inside the trial window.

Who provides Snowflake Cortex Agents?+

Snowflake, vetted by the Scrums.com platform.

How it compares

vs other agents

Option	From	Stack	Status
Snowflake Cortex Agents · this one	Priced on scope	agent · ai-agents · data-agents	● available
Qdrant MCP Server	Priced on scope	mcp · qdrant · vector database	● available
Pinecone MCP Server	Priced on scope	mcp · pinecone · vector database	● available
Databricks SQL MCP Server	Priced on scope	mcp · databricks · sql	● available

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