This paper argues that genuine enterprise productivity gains require proactive agents: systems that surface relevant, actionable information to workers before they ask, and proposes the Context Graph, a live relational data structure that models enterprise entities, their relationships, and state transitions over time.
Abstract
Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) and agentic frameworks have advanced enterprise AI considerably, yet agents remain fundamentally reactive: they wait for a human query before acting. This paper argues that genuine enterprise productivity gains require proactive agents: systems that surface relevant, actionable information to workers before they ask. We propose the Context Graph, a live relational data structure that models enterprise entities, their relationships, and state transitions over time. Built on this graph, we define a Delta Detection Engine that continuously monitors state changes, a Proactivity Scorer that ranks candidate insights by urgency, relevance, and persona-fit, and a Surfacing Layer powered by an LLM that delivers ranked notifications with grounded explanations. We formalize each component, derive a unified Proactivity Score function, and provide a complete end-to-end Python implementation using NetworkX and the Anthropic Claude API. Evaluation across three generic enterprise case studies (contract lifecycle management, engineering incident response, and sales pipeline hygiene) demonstrates that context-graph-driven proactivity achieves Precision@5 of 0.83, a false positive rate of 0.11, and reduces mean time to surface from 47 minutes (reactive baseline) to under 30 second.
Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) has become a common architecture for connecting large language models to enterprise knowledge. Most RAG systems retrieve unstructured documents (PDFs, wiki pages, support tickets) and feed them to an LLM for summarization or question answering. A growing class of enterprise agents, however, must query structured data: relational databases, data warehouses, and analytics APIs where the answer is a computed result, not a retrieved passage. Structured-data querying forces decisions that a document-RAG pipeline never has to make. We group them into seven dimensions: retrieval semantics, authorization, intent recognition, entity resolution, evaluation, failure modes, and latency. For each dimension, we characterize the baseline assumption, explain its limitation for structured data, and describe a generic architectural pattern. As supporting evidence, a controlled synthetic study shows that a staged agent built on this framework eliminates the authorization violations of a direct translate-and-execute baseline under controlled conditions. The primary result is a design-oriented framework, an evaluation protocol, and a set of open problems for governed structured-data agents.
Temporal graph questions require reliable handling of time, identifiers, and arithmetic. Large language model (LLM) agents often fail on these tasks, especially when a graph records both ordinary evolution and later corrections. We present TGMS, a bi-temporal property graph management system that exposes thirteen verified temporal operators as agent tools. Each operator is typed, deterministic, bounded, cost-guarded, and bi-temporal by default. The LLM plans operator calls and writes the final response, while the system performs all graph computation. Numeric, entity, ordering, and pattern claims are checked against the content-addressed execution trace. TGMS separates valid time from transaction time. It can therefore answer belief-state questions such as ``as of transaction time $T$, what did the system believe?''Standard latest-state snapshots and retrieval pipelines do not preserve enough information to answer such questions. On a development benchmark built from a real communication network, TGMS with a 14B open-source model reaches 0.409 exact match. Vector-RAG, static-graph RAG, and text-to-Cypher reach 0.045--0.182 under the same serving setup. TGMS reaches 0.67 exact match on correction probes, while the three 14B baselines score zero. The claim verifier detects all 500 injected count and entity errors with no false positives on the clean answers. Two implementation findings were especially important. First, operator output contracts prevent plans from referring to fields that do not exist. Second, verification must track whether the cited evidence is complete, because correct arithmetic over a truncated result is still misleading. The code, benchmark, and trace viewer are open source under Apache-2.0.
The database community has repeatedly advanced the state of the art by recognizing that new workloads demand new system architectures. We argue that long-horizon agentic tasks -- code generation, scientific discovery, hardware design -- are such a workload. These agents explore: they generate artifacts, execute tools, observe failures, branch, and repair over hundreds of steps. This search produces a structured object we call an experience graph: executable artifacts, tool outputs, rewards, sibling comparisons, and causal lineage. Yet existing agent frameworks treat this experience as disposable state -- JSON checkpoints and session logs that cannot be recovered after a crash, queried across users, or materialized into training data. We propose Trellis: a data foundation that treats the experience graph as first-class, governed, queryable database state. The core insight is that search over experience graphs is a database access pattern. Frontier selection is a query, cross-session reuse is vector-seeded graph retrieval, training-data extraction is a materialized view, and reconstructing what an agent knew at any past step is a time-travel query. When the database owns the experience graph, agents become stateless compute, and crash recovery, horizontal scaling, and a closed-loop training flywheel emerge as architectural byproducts. We ground the design in KernelEvolve, a production accelerator-kernel optimizer at Meta, where cross-session reuse reaches a target speedup roughly 10x faster at 52% lower token cost. More broadly, Trellis turns inference-time search from disposable computation into a durable institutional asset: logs made databases reliable; experience graphs may make agents cumulative.
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Shared memory helps language-model agents reuse information across long workflows, yet relevant evidence may not be admissible for a particular agent or action. Because restrictions propagate through derivations, summaries can conceal private, poisoned, untrusted, or revoked sources, enabling unauthorized reads or unsafe actions. Existing approaches provide semantic retrieval, scoped access, or lineage tracking, but do not clearly separate hard authorization from graded trust or adapt evidence requirements to action risk. We introduce MAP-Graph, a provenance-aware memory layer that represents agents, sources, memories, claims, and actions in a typed execution graph. It traces ancestry, excludes permission-ineligible records, reranks eligible memories by semantic similarity and multiplicative path trust, and applies a risk-sensitive gate before action execution while retaining affected lineage for audit. On a controlled benchmark of 2,700 synthetic tasks per method across three domains, MAP-Graph achieves 94.96\% overall task success, 72.70\% exact decision accuracy, and 90.22\% in the clean setting, where success requires a correct \textsc{Allow} rather than a safe intervention. Ablations isolate the roles of permission filtering, path trust, and action gating, while transfer tests with two additional backbones preserve the exact-decision and access-control advantages. These results support provenance as an operational control signal, rather than only post-hoc audit metadata, within the evaluated setting.
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In today's fast-paced environment, the ability to swiftly access, understand, and act on data is no longer optional; it is essential. Yet most organizations remain data-rich but insight-poor, constrained by the complexity of querying, interpreting, and explaining enterprise-scale information. We present Polaris, a supervisor-led multi-agent framework for conversational enterprise analytics that bridges this gap. Polaris introduces Dynamic Task Coordination (DTC), a decision-theoretic orchestration layer that models agent-task assignment as adaptive bipartite matching, enabling real-time coordination, recovery, and optimization across specialized agents for querying, visualization, and reasoning. By coupling DTC with reason-first, ReAct-style agents, Polaris transforms natural-language queries into coherent analytical workflows that not only retrieve and visualize data but also explain the underlying"why."Evaluation on structured enterprise datasets demonstrates high semantic fidelity and answer relevancy, underscoring the potential of multi-agent orchestration to deliver trustworthy, end-to-end business intelligence at scale.
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