Activate your unstructured file data with the AI data solution built for enterprises
Most AI can’t reach the unstructured file data that runs your business. Give your AI apps a governed, permission-aware access to your enterprise knowledge in your files with AI Activate, an AI data solution that requires no copies or pipelines to build.
Nasuni AI Activate
One governed file estate.
Reachable by any AI app.
AI Activate is a hosted add-on to the Nasuni File Data Platform. It turns the file data you already consolidate on Nasuni into a governed source any MCP-compatible AI app or agent can query. No separate AI copy of your data and no AI-specific pipeline to build or maintain.
Connect any AI app.
A managed MCP server wraps your Nasuni file estate. Claude, Microsoft Copilot, ChatGPT, and other MCP-compatible apps connect straight to it with no per-app integration.
Enforce every query.
Each request is scoped to what the signed-in user is already allowed to see, before retrieval, not after.
Answer from real data.
AI works from your actual specs, records, and contracts, governed from the first query and continuously updated as your files change.
Pilots don’t move the business. Deployment does.
Every enterprise is piloting AI, yet few make it work at scale. The models are more capable than ever, but the blocker between AI and real results is data access. The gap between an AI pilot and enterprise-wide AI isn’t strategy. It’s data access.
Source: State of Enterprise File Data, Nasuni, 2026
Here’s what closes that gap: governed access to the file data, the 90%+ of enterprise data that AI needs to do real work.
Weeks, not quarters.
Building a governed AI data pipeline from scratch takes dedicated engineers and months of work. AI Activate delivers the same result as a hosted add-on that’s live in weeks with no pipeline to build.
Up to $400K–$600K in avoided build cost.
That’s how much it could cost to build an equivalent governed AI data-access layer before ongoing maintenance.
Governance stops being the blocker.
43% of enterprises name security and governance as the #1 barrier to scaling AI. AI Activate clears it — no new infrastructure, no new security architecture, no reopened review cycle.
What your teams can ask on day one.
Reach the full project archive, including RFIs, specs, submittals, prior projects, from the AI apps teams already use.
“Reference the latest issued structural submittals for our active healthcare facility project.”
“Identify scope gaps between the mechanical and structural submittals that haven’t been resolved in the RFI log.”
“Draft a proposal section for the new district headquarters using comparable projects from the last five years.”
See AI Activate in Action
What matters when you’re accountable for AI data solutions.
No second copy of your data.
AI reaches the file data on your Nasuni platform in place. Nothing duplicated into a separate AI store, nothing for your team to keep in sync.
Permissions enforced before the query.
Access is checked at the identity layer using your existing Active Directory and NTFS controls before AI touches data, not filtered after.
Petabyte scale, every site.
Content and metadata indexed across the whole distributed estate. Edge, regional, and central all in one AI-accessible index.
Continuously updated and kept current.
DIY pipelines ingest once and drift. AI Activate stays synced, so answers reflect the latest revision, not last quarter’s snapshot.
How it works
Five steps. No AI pipeline to build.
Start with the platform
Your file data is unified, governed, and protected on the Nasuni File Data Platform — the foundation AI Activate builds on.
Wrap it with a managed MCP server
The index builds from your existing content, metadata, and AD permissions — and stays synced as files change.
Connect any MCP-compatible app
Claude, Copilot, ChatGPT, or a custom agent — no per-app integration work.
Enforce permissions on every query
AD and NTFS ACLs are applied before retrieval, so AI surfaces only what the user may see. Before, not after.
Stay current automatically
The index updates as files change — no manual reprocessing.
Why security teams approve AI Activate
Security teams don’t block AI programs out of caution. They block them because most ways of giving AI access to file data can’t be defended architecturally.
Post-query filtering lets the model retrieve content first, then filters. The data is already exposed. Copy-based ingestion creates ungoverned duplicates outside of the control perimeter. DIY MCP builds inherit whatever identity model the developer happened to wire up.
AI Activate checks permissions before any query reaches data.
Uses your existing Active Directory and NTFS ACLs. If a user can’t open a file, AI can’t surface it — enforced pre-query, not post-retrieval.
Files are never copied or replicated into a separate AI platform. The estate stays in place under current policy.
Vendor access follows defined policies. SOC 2 Type II coverage applies to AI Activate infrastructure.
Everything a security team needs to evaluate AI Activate (architecture, controls, and audit evidence) can be found at trust.nasuni.com.
Additional resources
Nasuni AI Activate Overview
More than 90% of enterprise data lives in files AI can’t reach. See how Nasuni gives AI governed access to it.
Read the data sheetNasuni AI Activate Security Overview
Governed AI access to enterprise files, with existing user permissions enforced before the AI ever reads the content.
Read the data sheet
McKim & Creed
From File Servers to AI-Powered Project Intelligence with Nasuni
View the case study