Unlocking the Unseen: How Tapestry is like X-ray for Distributed Data
By Benjamin Buswell, Founder & CEO
Tapestry gives you the ability to see and interact with data across the enterprise without violating the layers that protect it. Most teams are blind to data they don’t own because it’s siloed, sensitive, or in another business unit. Tapestry gives you X-ray vision: a way to “see through” your architecture to what matters, while leaving every protective layer intact.
Vision for Your Architecture
Picture this. You walk into a pitch-black room with only a flashlight. Wherever the beam lands, you see detail; everywhere else stays unknown. Now imagine viewing the same scene with an X-ray. You aren’t flooding the room with light - you’re revealing the structure that was always there, without cutting anything open, removing anything, or moving it around. That’s the shift leaders need with data. Tapestry isn’t literally an X-ray, but it works like one for distributed data. It reveals where answers live across your organization and your partner’s - without moving or exposing the underlying data.
What the X-ray analogy really means
An X-ray doesn’t rearrange a body to understand it; it produces a governed image of what already exists. Likewise, Tapestry doesn’t centralize or copy raw data. Authorized questions travel to the data, collect only what’s permitted to compute an answer, and return an answer with a complete audit trail. Source data stays put. Policy and permissions remain intact. DatumSure’s Tapestry is a platform for insights, not added IT architecture.
A finance example explains the idea
When several banks team up to issue a large loan, they agree to rules the borrower must follow - like maintaining enough cash to cover debts or keeping leverage within limits. Today, checking those rules usually means chasing quarterly spreadsheets, emailing private statements, and hoping everyone is looking at the same numbers.
With Tapestry, a lightweight application is installed in each database (e.g. borrower, lead bank, and a participant bank), and the lead bank can simply ask, “Are the covenants still met?” Tapestry securely looks at the right figures where they already live, pulls only what’s needed to run the tests, and returns a clear yes/no to the lead bank with any variances - plus an audit trail showing how it was calculated. No one ships raw financials around, no stray copies get created, and all parties see the same, timely answer. It’s like checking the scoreboard instead of passing everyone’s notebooks around.
Why it matters to the business
When you can reveal what was previously hidden, new insights translate directly into revenue gains, cost savings, and risk reduction. Here are some examples:
Revenue
Accelerate fee income and deal velocity by confirming covenant status in near real time.
Improve cross-sell and next-best-action using richer context without exposing PII.
Cost
Retire duplicate pipelines and ad-hoc extracts; cut reconciliation hours across treasury, risk, and lending teams.
Shorten review and remediation cycles with answers that arrive aligned, timestamped, and auditable.
Risk
Keep data inside its governed boundary and comply with residency and consent requirements.
Reduce copy sprawl and breach surface while improving transparency and accountability.
The AI advantage across all your data
Real value arrives when AI can safely engage all relevant data. With Tapestry, models determine the logic (e.g., which formula or policy test to run), while governed agents fetch only the minimal fields needed to compute the answer - without relocating the underlying data. You get faster decisions, sharper customer understanding, and durable advantage while keeping privacy and compliance intact.
Questions for Leaders
If you lead in healthcare, what changes when population models operate across institutions while PHI never leaves custody?
If you are in education, how would funding and student support improve if outcomes could be analyzed across districts without exposing student records?
If you serve in government, how much faster could benefits or safety programs move if agencies could coordinate with policy traveling with every question?
A simple challenge
What would you build if you could see what’s already there – safely - without copying data or waiting on pipelines? The signals are already in your world. You need a way to reveal them, clearly and securely.
That’s the promise of Tapestry: Share insights. Not data.
If this resonates, follow along as we keep “unlocking the unseen,” or raise your hand for our Demo Days to see how governed answers change the speed and quality of decisions - without changing your data’s custody.
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.