Building the Agentic Enterprise Control Plane on Snowflake

Six Cortex AI functions. Five enterprise tables. A fully self-contained deployment - tested end-to-end, no workspace, no external files, no manual steps. On April 21, 2026, Snowflake made something official that practitioners had been sensing for months: Snowflake Intelligence and Cortex Code are now the control plane for the agentic enterprise. AI is no longer answering questions. It’s taking action. The shift matters because of what it changes operationally. In the old model, AI lived at the edge - a separate service you called, waited on, and piped results back from.