Sphinx

Sphinx (sphinx.ai) develops AI products that interface with structured and semi-structured business data. Its platform functions as a governance and reliability layer that sits between a customer's AI tools and its underlying data stack: it connects to existing databases, warehouses and data tools, builds a shared knowledge base from schemas, metrics, business logic and institutional knowledge, and validates AI-generated queries before outputs are released. The system is designed to catch drift, inconsistencies and hallucinations, correct them on a continuing basis, and trace every output back to its source data, logic and reasoning. It also provides access controls, audit logs and configurable human approval steps.

The company also ships a copilot product for data professionals. Announced as generally available in September 2025, Sphinx Copilot combines autocomplete with agentic reasoning and is integrated into environments where data teams already work, including Jupyter notebooks and VSCode. The company positions the copilot as purpose-built for data work rather than code generation, emphasizing accurate representations of data, verification of models, and grounding of responses in quantitative evidence. Stated application areas span forecasting, operations optimization, supply chain analysis and sports analytics.

Sphinx describes itself as an applied AI research firm whose work centers on representation learning and reinforcement learning applied to the interpretation of tabular and semi-structured information, balancing data exploration against extraction of commercially relevant insight.

Founding story

Sphinx was founded by Rohan Kodialam, an AI research leader at Citadel, and Jamie Bloxham, an early technology lead at MosaicML. While leading AI research and data science teams, they encountered the problem that frontier models were isolated from the data-science tooling and structured datasets used to inform commercial decisions, and started the company to close that gap.

Business model

Sphinx sells software to enterprises: a copilot product for data practitioners and a governance/reliability layer that connects to a customer's existing data stack. The website markets through booked demos rather than self-serve signup.

Traction

The copilot became available at launch in September 2025. Oats Overnight CEO Brian Tate stated that Sphinx helped its data scientists uncover shopper-behavior patterns in minutes rather than hours or days and that the company intends to deepen the partnership. Additional unnamed customer testimonials on the website come from a consumer packaged goods firm, a DTC retail brand and a hedge fund.

Latest developments

In September 2025 Sphinx launched publicly with a $9.5 million Seed round and released its copilot product, stating that proceeds would fund continued development of agentic AI that natively interacts with data and data science workflows. The company subsequently positioned the product as a continuous governance and correction layer for data and AI outputs across a customer's AI tools.