Modern Relay: A Shared Infrastructure for Enterprise AI Agents

Modern Relay, a startup founded in 2025 by Ragnor Comerford and Aaron Goh, recently announced a $3 million funding round. The investment, led by Point Nine with participation from Emerge, Amino Collective, Common Magic, and prominent angel investors such as Charlie Songhurst (Meta board member), Michael Boehler (former BioNTech executive), and Thomas Clozel (OWKIN co-founder), is aimed at supporting the development of a shared infrastructure layer for AI agents in the enterprise.

The company, headquartered in San Francisco and Barcelona, seeks to address one of the most pressing challenges in AI agent adoption: organizational context fragmentation. Many companies are already deploying agents to automate tasks like drafting research, shipping code, and handling day-to-day operations. However, when these agents interact with cross-functional areas, they encounter the same problem: organizational context is scattered across documents, chats, legacy databases, and undocumented knowledge, hindering effective collaboration.

Overcoming Fragmentation with Omnigraph

The core issue lies in the absence of a shared layer where people and agents can operate from the same facts and rules. This gap leads each department to automate in isolation, reducing the overall effectiveness of AI agents. Modern Relay is building the infrastructure to fix this, providing organizations with a common foundation that reflects how the company actually works, including its people, policies, data, and decisions. This approach enables software and teams to coordinate from a shared reality, facilitating the routing of the right information to the right actor at the right time, while governing what changes, who approves them, and how work evolves over time.

As Ragnor Comerford, co-founder of Modern Relay, stated, “Every company will soon rely on a growing number of agents across all departments. Without a shared foundation connecting them, those systems create more fragmentation than leverage. We’re building the layer that lets organizations preserve context, coordinate work, and stay in control.” As proof of this commitment, Modern Relay has already released its first open-source product, Omnigraph, a Git-style graph database designed for a world where agents are first-class operators. Omnigraph allows people and agents to branch, propose changes in parallel, and merge approved updates back into a canonical graph.

The Importance of On-Premise Deployment and Data Sovereignty

A distinctive aspect of Modern Relay's approach, and of particular interest to AI-RADAR readers, is its emphasis on on-premise deployment. The platform runs entirely on customer-owned infrastructure. This strategic choice addresses the growing need for companies to maintain full control over their data and critical operations, especially as AI integrates more deeply into business processes. Ricardo Sequerra, Partner at Point Nine, highlighted how “the bottleneck has moved from model capability to organizational infrastructure. They're building the operational backbone for how AI actually works inside a company.”

For organizations evaluating the adoption of LLMs and AI agents, the decision between cloud and on-premise deployment is crucial. The self-hosted option offered by Modern Relay ensures greater data sovereignty, compliance with stringent regulations, and the ability to operate in air-gapped environments—fundamental elements for sectors such as finance, healthcare, or public administration. This approach also allows for more granular control over the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and hardware specifications, aspects that AI-RADAR analyzes in detail within its frameworks for evaluating on-premise deployments.

Future Prospects for Enterprise AI

As AI embeds deeper into enterprise operations, a robust infrastructural foundation becomes a company's most valuable asset. Modern Relay's vision is that nothing this central to how a company operates should live inside someone else's platform. This perspective aligns perfectly with the needs of CTOs, DevOps leads, and infrastructure architects seeking solutions that offer control, security, and customization.

The introduction of Omnigraph as a Git-style graph database for AI agents represents a significant step towards creating more efficient and controllable collaborative environments. By enabling structured change and version management, Modern Relay aims to provide companies with the tools necessary to scale the use of AI agents without sacrificing operational consistency or governance. The funding received strengthens the company's ability to advance this vision, shaping the future of enterprise AI infrastructure with a focus on customer ownership and control.