Distyl AI

Distyl AI is an enterprise artificial intelligence company that builds and operates agent systems for the largest companies in regulated industries. Its model mirrors Palantir, where the founders and much of the team previously worked. Rather than selling software and walking away, Distyl forward deploys its own engineers and researchers alongside a customer's teams and shares accountability for the outcome. Founded around 2022 by Arjun Prakash and Derek Ho, the company raised one hundred seventy five million dollars at a valuation near one point eight billion dollars, with backing from Khosla Ventures, ServiceNow, and Dell Technologies Capital, and serves Fortune 500 clients across telecom, healthcare, insurance, manufacturing, and finance.

The core product is Distillery, a platform that turns a company's organizational knowledge into production agent workflows the team calls AI Routines. These routines reason over complex states, execute generated code, spawn sub agents, and operate deep inside sensitive internal systems, coordinating many agents across both success paths and failure cases. The platform is designed for long running enterprise assistants that persist across interactions, accumulate context over time, and continuously reason over evolving enterprise data rather than answering a single question and forgetting it. Distyl reports moving a very high share of its engagements into real production, a rate that is unusual in enterprise artificial intelligence.

Distyl treats enterprise controls as the hard part of the work, not an afterthought. When routines run in production, the platform captures every input, output, tool call, and reasoning step for complete auditability, and analysts can download execution traces. Failed tasks trigger alerts or human review, and feedback from subject matter experts flows back through prompt adjustments and structured testing to improve the system. A workbench lets those business experts configure and refine the agents directly. Security includes role based access, multi tenancy, and SOC 2 compliance, aimed at buyers who must satisfy strict governance and emerging regulation.

The platform is deliberately model agnostic. Distyl supports different runtimes and models for different jobs, from a reasoning agent with full tool calling autonomy for open ended work to a deterministic deep research pipeline for grounded investigation, and it has integrated offerings from providers including OpenAI, Anthropic, and NVIDIA. It connects to enterprise data through SQL, application programming interfaces, and document repositories. Commercially, Distyl is not a self serve product. Engagements are direct, priced against business outcomes rather than seats or usage, and often reach tens of millions of dollars over multiple years. It is best understood as an enterprise transformation partner for organizations that need auditable agents running in core operations.