{"slug": "motherduck-acquires-tower-agents-can-answer-now-they-can-build", "title": "MotherDuck Acquires Tower: Agents Can Answer. Now They Can Build.", "summary": "MotherDuck has acquired Tower Computing Inc., a provider of runtime infrastructure for data engineering tasks, to enhance its Flights feature and enable AI agents to build data pipelines and APIs. The acquisition will allow MotherDuck to evolve Flights into data agents and custom data APIs, combining with its Dives visualization technology to build full applications via prompts. MotherDuck co-founder and CEO Jordan Tigani announced the deal, highlighting Tower's role in providing sandboxing, scheduling, and observability for LLM-written pipelines.", "body_md": "I’m excited to announce that MotherDuck has acquired Tower Computing Inc. Tower provides runtime infrastructure for data engineering tasks, and is ideally situated to help AI agents and vibe-coded pipelines run data engineering tasks. Tower powers MotherDuck Flights, our mechanism that makes rich data pipelines only a prompt away. The acquisition will enable MotherDuck to give Flights wings, by turning them into Data APIs and orchestrating data agents.\n\nI’ve known Tower co-Founder Serhii Sokolenko since we worked together at Google. He was one of the most impressive PMs I had ever met. Serhii went on to Snowflake, where he met his Tower co-founder, Brad Heller. When I heard Serhii was starting Tower, initially I was disappointed because that meant I wouldn’t be able to hire him to work at MotherDuck. But I kept tabs on what Tower was up to. Brad was equally impressive as a technology leader and put together a strong technical team who proved they could move fast and ship.\n\nThe choice to use Tower’s technology for MotherDuck actually goes back before Flights; we were originally looking to whitelist a tool to help our customers ingest data more easily into MotherDuck. After all, if you can’t get your data in, it doesn’t matter how great the data warehouse is.\n\nWhen AI suddenly became relevant for data teams, we realized we were thinking about the data-ingestion problem incorrectly. We didn’t need canned connectors; Claude can write the code to move data from one place to another. We shipped the ability to host, orchestrate, and schedule your LLM-written data pipelines as our Flights feature.\n\nThe parts that Claude didn’t provide-- the sandboxing, scheduling, and observability-- were exactly the functionality that Tower provided. By building on top of Tower, we were able to launch Flights in only a matter of weeks without compromising on features like observability and reliability.\n\nTower’s runtime will also allow us to evolve our Flights to provide flexible and robust data agents to our customers. Running a data ingestion pipeline isn’t fundamentally different from running a data cleaning or data investigation agent, so it feels like a natural next step to use Tower as an agent orchestrator. The infrastructure the Team has built will make it faster and simpler to launch these new capabilities.\n\nThe Tower feature that I’m especially excited about is the ability for a Tower job to expose a stable URL, making it callable from anywhere. What this means is that a MotherDuck Flight can become a custom data API. Moreover, if you combine this with MotherDuck Dives, our hosted data visualization technology, you can build a full-blown application with a single prompt.\n\nTo make it concrete, imagine that you’re building an app that lets you visualize user restaurant recommendations on a map; you can build a great Dive for that. But then let’s say you want your users to be able to add their own recommendations; you’d create a Flight that allows creation and modification of their own recommendations. By putting Flights and Dives together, you can build rich, secure, scalable applications.\n\nEarlier this year, I predicted a future in which data engineering becomes an agent supervision problem. Tower will let us surf the wave of data agents by providing the platform on top of which the agents run. Then our customers can go further, faster, funner, and with more ducks.\n\nIf you’d like to give MotherDuck a try, you can sign up yourself on the site, or direct your favorite agent to https://new.motherduck.com/.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/motherduck-acquires-tower-agents-can-answer-now-they-can-build", "canonical_source": "https://motherduck.com/blog/motherduck-acquires-tower", "published_at": "2026-08-25 00:00:00+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-25 14:43:57.302336+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-agents", "ai-infrastructure", "ai-products"], "entities": ["MotherDuck", "Tower Computing Inc.", "Serhii Sokolenko", "Brad Heller", "Jordan Tigani", "Claude", "Snowflake", "Google"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/motherduck-acquires-tower-agents-can-answer-now-they-can-build", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/motherduck-acquires-tower-agents-can-answer-now-they-can-build.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/motherduck-acquires-tower-agents-can-answer-now-they-can-build.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/motherduck-acquires-tower-agents-can-answer-now-they-can-build.jsonld"}}