Stop Moving EO Data

Tilebox is an orchestration framework designed for building, running, and scaling geospatial workflows, with a particular focus on Earth Observation (EO) data. It addresses the challenge of moving large datasets by enabling users to develop and execute geospatial pipelines without relocating data, thereby reducing egress and overhead. The platform is intended for both humans and agent-based systems, supporting collaborative development and operational efficiency across diverse environments.

The framework provides a unified API that allows humans and agents to construct, debug, and iterate on geospatial workflows. Tilebox offers tools for agentic development, including the ability to onboard agents, equip them with specific skills, and connect them through a hosted MCP server. For engineers and developers, Tilebox supplies CLI tools for building, inspecting, and running workflows directly from the terminal. The system emphasizes keeping humans in the loop, ensuring that engineers maintain control over workflows, infrastructure, and access.

Tilebox is engineered for trust and transparency, offering full observability into workflow execution. It automatically captures logs, traces, task statuses, and runner contexts, enabling users to track what ran, on which data, and with what results. The platform supports AI grounding by allowing agents to interact with governed datasets through typed, queryable catalogs, mirroring the actions of a human engineer. Infrastructure control is maintained by ensuring that data remains on existing customer infrastructure, with distributed access managed through least-privilege defaults.

A notable feature of Tilebox is its interoperability. It operates a multi-language, multi-environment task protocol that distributes and parallelizes workflows across heterogeneous runners using a pull model. This enables workflows to run seamlessly across cloud, sovereign, air-gapped, on-premises, and edge environments. The platform also facilitates data distribution by allowing users to create, manage, and share catalogs via a console or secure APIs, and it is designed to support edge computing scenarios, including pre-launch validation and in-orbit updates.

Tilebox systematically reduces operational expenses by automating pipeline efficiencies that lower storage, transfer, and compute costs. It supports growth by enabling development, deployment, and scaling without the need to rewrite code or manage infrastructure.