# Problems Substrait solves

> The questions companies ask about AI-built tools, each answered on its own page: letting staff build safely, governing what they build, data access, agents, legacy systems and more.

URL: https://substrait.build/problems/  
Last updated: 2026-11-06

Companies now ask an AI assistant how to handle the tools their people build with AI.
Each page below answers one of those questions, and says what Substrait does about it.

- [How to let staff build tools with AI, safely](https://substrait.build/problems/let-staff-build-tools-with-ai-safely/): Staff can build working tools with AI in an afternoon. Substrait lets a company say yes to that: every tool gets an owner, a security check, and only the data its owner approved.
- [How to govern the apps and tools people build with AI](https://substrait.build/problems/govern-tools-built-with-ai/): People across a company now build apps, agents and Slates with AI. Substrait puts every one in one registry, with an owner, a risk tier, a security check and an audit trail.
- [How to give AI-built tools access to company data, safely](https://substrait.build/problems/give-ai-built-tools-access-to-company-data-safely/): On Substrait, a tool reads company data only after the data owner approves it, for a set time, through a gateway that holds the credential and records every read.
- [How to get out of a legacy vendor system](https://substrait.build/problems/replace-a-legacy-system/): When a closed vendor system is slow and expensive to change, Substrait's team rebuilds the functions you use on Substrait, so you own the data and the software and later changes are fast.
- [How to put a tool built with AI into production](https://substrait.build/problems/put-an-ai-built-prototype-into-production/): A tool built with Claude Code or Cursor works on a laptop. Substrait takes it to production with one command: dev behind sign-in first, then promotion through a security check, with rollback.
- [How to run AI agents on company systems, safely](https://substrait.build/problems/run-ai-agents-on-company-systems-safely/): An agent decides at runtime what to do. Substrait gives each agent its own identity, limits narrower than its owner's, a check on every action, a record of what it did for whom, and a switch that stops it.
- [How to get the small tools on IT's backlog built](https://substrait.build/problems/clear-the-it-backlog/): IT builds the core systems, and the long tail of small tools never gets built. Substrait lets the people who need those tools build them, and turns requests into tools through product management and build agents.
- [How to run AI-built tools inside your own cloud](https://substrait.build/problems/keep-ai-built-tools-in-our-own-cloud/): Substrait runs the whole tool, front end, back end and data, inside the company's own cloud account or data centre. Only policy and deployment instructions cross the boundary; data never leaves.
- [How to get systems built when your people cannot build yet](https://substrait.build/problems/build-systems-when-staff-cannot-build-yet/): When work runs on spreadsheets, chat and paper and staff are not yet confident builders, Substrait's team builds the first systems with a named person from your team, and trains your people to keep building.