What is middleware for AI agents?
Middleware is the layer between your chatbot and what it needs to create enterprise solutions. It tells your agent what to do, and gives it the data, tools, and computers to do it. Siftree is middleware for agents. We build it, run it, and maintain it, so your team doesn’t have to.
A chatbot can write the code. It can’t keep it running.
Ask a chatbot to build something and it will. But real business software needs more than code. It needs your data, a place to store it, a computer to run on, a schedule, and rules about who can see what.
Middleware is all of that. It’s the part in the middle that turns a good answer into something that works every day.
A chatbot answers once. This runs for months.
One request turns into software your team relies on every day.
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You ask
“Replace our competitor tracking tool. Watch every competitor’s pricing, reviews, and job posts, and tell sales when something changes.”
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Siftree collects
It checks competitor sites, review sites, and job boards every day, even when no one is chatting.
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Siftree remembers
Every check is saved. Months later, you can see what changed and when.
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Your whole team uses it
A shared dashboard for the team, alerts in Slack, and notes written to your CRM.
What Siftree’s middleware gives your agent.
Four layers, managed by us. Your agent gets 14,818 data sources and everything it needs to build and run solutions for your business.
See how it works- Data integration
- 14,818 sources across 4,168 apps and websites, plus crawling and scraping of any public site and your own files. Source access and operations depend on the connector and account.
- Data and AI platform
- Store, structure, retrieve, and analyze data with managed datasets and model routing.
- App and agent cloud
- Run tasks in sandboxes, host interfaces, retain results and run history, and configure background work and schedules.
- Security
- Use authorized accounts, workspace permissions, and defined review points for access and actions.
Old middleware connected apps. Agent middleware gets work done.
| Question | Traditional middleware | Agent middleware (Siftree) |
|---|---|---|
| Who it’s for | Apps talking to other apps | Your chatbot doing real work |
| How you ask for something | An IT project | Plain words in your chatbot |
| Who builds it | Your IT team or a contractor | Your agent, on Siftree |
| Who keeps it running | Your IT team | Siftree |
Questions
Middleware, in plain words.
What is middleware?
Middleware is software that sits in the middle. It connects one thing to another so they can work together. Most middleware connects apps to apps. Agent middleware connects your chatbot to what it needs to do real work.
What is agent middleware?
Middleware is the layer between your chatbot and what it needs to create enterprise solutions. It tells your agent what to do, and gives it the data, tools, and computers to do it. Siftree is middleware for agents. We build it, run it, and maintain it, so your team doesn’t have to.
Is MCP the same as middleware?
No. MCP is the plug your chatbot uses to connect. Middleware is what’s on the other side of that plug: the data, tools, storage, and computers that do the work. Siftree connects over MCP and supplies everything behind it.
Do I need to be technical to use it?
No. You ask your chatbot for what you need in plain words. Siftree handles the data, hosting, and upkeep underneath.
Who maintains it?
Siftree does. We manage, maintain, and support the data integration, data and AI platform, app and agent cloud, and security your agent runs on.
Start with the work you need done.
Tell us what takes too much time today. We’ll help scope a first workflow around your team, your data, and your existing agent.