Snowflake plans to buy Natoma, a startup that provides a gateway for managing AI agent permissions across enterprise applications. The acquisition supports an “agentic control plane” where AI agents can take actions across business systems while remaining within organizational security controls. Natoma enables actions such as sending emails, summarizing Slack conversations, checking calendars, and opening Jira tickets from Snowflake’s AI products. Natoma functions as a gateway for Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers and connectors that let agents interact with external tools. It enforces identity verification, access policies, and audit controls at the level of individual tool calls, tracking who requested actions, what permissions they have, and whether actions are allowed. It also brings SaaS application context into AI products for synthesis and instant action.
"With Natoma, users can do things like send emails, summarize Slack conversations, check calendars, and open Jira tickets without ever leaving Snowflake Intelligence or Coco. The important point is not just convenience. It is control. These actions happen from a governed environment with enterprise security, permissions, observability, and policy enforcement built in."
"Natoma's software acts as a gateway for Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers, connectors that allow AI agents to interact with external software tools. The platform enforces identity verification, access policies, and audit controls at the level of individual tool calls, tracking who requested an action, what permissions they hold, and whether the system should allow the action to proceed."
"The reason MCP and Natoma are a big deal is they now bring the entirety of SaaS application context into these products, and so I've done deep research reports, for example, that can now look for information from Snowflake, from the web, from Google Docs, also from Slack, and synthesize that into something that is astoundingly meaningful. And these also let you take action instantly."
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