Introducing Tapestry: Share Insights. Not Data.
By Benjamin Buswell, Founder & CEO
Ben Buswell, DatumSure CEO
Ben Buswell opens this series with the story and stakes behind Tapestry - DatumSure’s AI Data Insights Platform that delivers real-time answers without moving or exposing data.
If you lead in a regulated, data-heavy world, this is a must-read: Ben explains how governed, permissioned access unlocks cross-silo questions while keeping policy and provenance intact.
The result is faster decisions with less manual cleanup, answers you can trace end-to-end, and meaningful AI outcomes without expanding your infrastructure or risk surface.
For most of my career I’ve watched a strange paradox play out: the aspects of our life that matter most - our money, our health, our schools - offer the worst data experiences. Meanwhile, ad platforms and social networks deliver eerily precise personalization. The gap isn’t a lack of data. It’s a lack of governed access to use it with confidence.
Most organizations don’t struggle with storage or compute. They struggle with governance and trustworthy.
Tapestry is our answer. It’s a new way to get real-time answers from distributed, sensitive data (or even the siloed datasets within your organization) without moving or exposing the underlying data. Think of it as an insight layer that lives above your existing systems - policy-enforced, auditable, and fast. Our goal isn’t to ship raw data around; it’s to let authorized questions reach the data where it already lives and return only the answer. Datumsure is a platform for insights, not infrastructure.
Why Tapestry - and why now
I started DatumSure in 2017 while looking at a rising risk no one knew how to underwrite: data risk. If software and data increasingly determine outcomes - from underwriting to autonomous vehicles - how do you measure integrity, provenance, and accountability across sprawling ecosystems? We initially explored cryptographic ways to track provenance without peering into private data. That journey revealed a bigger truth: most organizations don’t struggle with storage or compute. They struggle with governance and trustworthy access. Tapestry was born to solve that.
We chose healthcare as the first proving ground precisely because it’s the hardest: high-stakes, high-regulation, and deeply fragmented. If you can enable compliant access there, you can enable it anywhere.
What makes Tapestry different
No data movement. With Tapestry, the question travels - not the data. Authorized “agents” inside our VaultDS application operate inside your governed boundaries. They locate only the fields needed for a calculation, return the answer to the secure vault, and leave the source data in place. Answers can be retained with a full audit trail; raw data never becomes a stray copy.
Governance first. Every interaction is permissioned, transparent, and auditable by design. When you can see who asked what, when, and which sources contributed, trust goes up and duplication goes down. I often say transparency is the simplest form of audit - make it visible, and you make it governable.
AI without exposure. Traditional AI centralizes data into models; that’s powerful - and risky. The real value sits behind firewalls, where leakage is unacceptable. Tapestry lets models perform the thinking (e.g., which formula to use), then permission just-in-time access to compute an answer, without ingesting the sensitive data into the model. It’s how you get AI value with enterprise-grade control.
Answers across silos. Tapestry unblocks cross-domain questions - finance to operations, payer to provider, brand to partner - without building another lake or copy chain. That’s how you cut cost, latency, and “data janitorial” work while improving accuracy.
Why this is revolutionary for business
Today’s status quo asks teams to create yet another copy of data for every new analysis, project, or partner - then to trust that copies won’t multiply, leak, or go stale. The operational waste is staggering - in many organizations, highly trained analysts and even nurses spend most of their time cleaning, reconciling, and re-keying data instead of improving outcomes. That’s not innovation; that’s entropy. Answers should flow; raw data shouldn’t.
By placing an insight layer within your stack, Tapestry lets you:
Ask governed questions across sources in real time
Keep policy, permissions, and provenance intact
Prove where answers came from—and what didn’t move to produce them
Reduce duplicate pipelines and shadow copies that bloat cost and risk
The result: better decisions now, without re-platforming.
Why I built DatumSure
I believe people and institutions deserve agency over their data: clarity about how it’s used, the ability to grant and revoke access, and the right to expect transparency that builds trust.
Legally, many of us “own” our data; practically, we often lack control. DatumSure exists to close that gap - not by hoarding data, but by enabling responsible access and verifiable answers.
Legally, many of us “own” our data; practically, we often lack control. DatumSure closes that gap.
That philosophy shapes everything about Tapestry: permissioned by default, auditable end-to-end, and designed so organizations can collaborate without giving away their lifeblood. When sharing is required or beneficial, it should be measured, minimal, and monitored.
How Tapestry changes how we “own” and share data
Ownership without control is a myth. Tapestry makes control practical:
Access without copies. Authorize the question—not a dataset export.
Provenance you can trust. Every answer carries its sourcing record.
Privacy by design. Sensitive fields remain where they belong; only computed results move.
Transparent collaboration. Partners can contribute intelligence without breaching custody.
This is how businesses will see the unseen: not by centralizing everything, but by aligning meaning across systems and letting governed questions reach the right data at the right moment. The world opens up when you can unite context across silos safely.
Ownership without control is a myth.
Where we go from here
In Q4 we’re publishing a series that puts this philosophy to work - how regulated industries can get AI-level gains without moving data, and how to replace risky copy-sprawl with auditable answers.
Next up: “Unlocking the Unseen” - examples of insights you can access today when the question travels, not the data.
Share Insights. Not Data.
About DatumSure
DatumSure is the technology company behind Tapestry, the AI-native Data Insights Platform that enables real-time AI intelligence from siloed, regulated, and distributed data without ever moving or copying it. Founded by industry veterans with deep expertise in finance, healthcare, defense, and technology, the DatumSure team has built and scaled mission-critical systems where privacy and compliance are non-negotiable. Today, we help leaders unlock faster innovation, reduce risk, and transform data from a bottleneck into a growth engine.