Prefect Enables HNI Corporation to Orchestrate AI-Ready Data Pipelines on the Snowflake AI Data Cloud

Prefect, a Python-native workflow orchestration platform for AI, machine learning, and data engineering workloads, today announced an expanded integration with Snowflake, the AI Data Cloud company, and joint customer HNI Corporation to modernize data orchestration and accelerate AI initiatives on Snowflake.

Under the collaboration, HNI Corporation is standardizing critical data pipelines on Prefect and Snowflake to increase reliability, improve observability, and deliver fresher, trusted data to analytics and AI use cases across the business. By orchestrating the end-to-end flow on Snowflake, Prefect turns raw ingestion and complex transformations into a reliable, observable pipeline. This allows HNI to power its data platform on Snowflake, while Prefect orchestrates data pipelines.

The collaboration enables HNI to standardize ingestion and transformation pipelines on Prefect, with Snowflake serving as its core data platform, resulting in improved reliability, observability, and the speed at which trusted data reaches analytics and AI use cases across the business.

Details of the integration

Snowflake and Prefect are deepening their relationship, aligning product, sales, and marketing teams around a shared goal of helping joint customers operationalize AI by orchestrating complex data and agentic workflows on Snowflake.

Joint initiatives to help joint customers operationalize data pipelines with reliable orchestration to accelerate time-to-insight, improve data reliability, and ultimately enable more consistent, business-critical decision-making.
Snowflake Marketplace availability lets joint customers quickly adopt Prefect through the Snowflake Marketplace using existing commitments, accelerating time-to-value with streamlined procurement and enabling faster deployment of reliable, production-grade data workflows.

As part of this motion, HNI Corporation is a strong example of a joint customer that demonstrates how Prefect and Snowflake together can turn complex, hybrid data operations into a governed, observable, AI-ready fabric for the enterprise.

Product integration and Snowflake Intelligence alignment

Prefect is launching a listing on Snowflake Marketplace that helps customers move from raw data to production-ready insights and AI faster. Combined with Snowflake's deep reasoning and governed access in Snowflake Intelligence (its enterprise intelligence agent that turns data into actionable insights through natural language) and Prefect's orchestration capabilities, customers gain reliable automation, execution, and governance across the entire AI and data lifecycle.

Key integration capabilities include:

Prefect–Snowflake Connector: A production-ready connector that uses SnowflakeCredentials and SnowflakeConnector blocks to execute queries, create tables, load data, and fetch results directly from Snowflake, with both synchronous and asynchronous execution options.
End-to-end pipeline orchestration around Snowflake: Prefect orchestrates ingestion, ELT/ETL, dbt transformations, Snowpark and ML pipelines, and reverse ETL jobs that land data in and extract value from Snowflake, alongside external APIs and services in a single workflow graph.
Centralized observability and reliability: Prefect gives teams a single view of every workflow in Snowflake, with built-in retries, alerting, and detailed run history. When a pipeline breaks, engineers can see immediately whether the issue is in their code, their configuration, or an upstream source system.

This foundation extends naturally into Snowflake Intelligence and agentic patterns:

Snowflake serves as a governed AI data and compute platform, enabling joint customers to securely store, manage, and process structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data at scale to power analytics, machine learning, and AI workloads.
Prefect serves as the orchestration connectivity layer, orchestrating data movement, external tools, and AI-agent workflows with FastMCP (Prefect's open-source MCP framework) and Horizon (MCP Gateway Platform), connecting agents to the internal APIs, databases, and SaaS tools that run the rest of the business. Agentic systems can treat Snowflake as a first-class, governed tool while still reaching the rest of the enterprise.

Customers can discover Prefect's offering on Snowflake Marketplace today under the listing Prefect Workflow Orchestration for Snowflake, making it simple to evaluate, procure, and co-manage the joint solution.

Executive commentary

"Customers are increasingly looking to move from AI experimentation to real production outcomes. Prefect helps streamline how teams orchestrate data and agentic workflows, as customers bring more workloads into production on Snowflake and expand their use of Snowflake Intelligence. Together, we're helping organizations like HNI Corporation turn data into action faster, while benefiting from the simplicity of purchasing through Snowflake Marketplace."

Prasanna Krishnan

Head of Horizon Catalog and Collaboration, Snowflake

"We built Prefect for the engineers who are tired of fighting rigid, legacy tools. By bringing our Python-native orchestration on the Snowflake AI Data Cloud, we're letting teams like HNI build complex AI pipelines using their existing code. It's about giving them the flexibility to connect any system to Snowflake without losing visibility. HNI is proving that when you give developers a resilient orchestration layer, they can move from raw data to production AI at a speed that used to be impossible."

Chris White

CTO and President, Prefect

Availability and how to get started

The Prefect solution for Enterprise built on Snowflake is live in production today.

Snowflake customers can contact their Snowflake account team to learn how to evaluate Prefect using their existing Snowflake commitments and to explore similar architectures for their own data and AI initiatives.
Prospective Prefect customers can request a demo of Prefect with Snowflake and see reference architectures similar to HNI's deployment.
Snowflake Marketplace listing: Prefect Workflow Orchestration for Snowflake.

About Prefect

Prefect is an open-source workflow orchestration platform for building, observing, and reacting to data pipelines. Prefect enables data and platform engineering teams to automate any data process and build resilient, dynamic workflows that react to the world around them. Thousands of organizations, from startups to Fortune 500 enterprises, trust Prefect to modernize their data stack and deliver reliable data products. Learn more at prefect.io.

Details of the integration

Joint initiatives to help joint customers operationalize data pipelines with reliable orchestration to accelerate time-to-insight, improve data reliability, and ultimately enable more consistent, business-critical decision-making.

Snowflake Marketplace availability lets joint customers quickly adopt Prefect through the Snowflake Marketplace using existing commitments, accelerating time-to-value with streamlined procurement and enabling faster deployment of reliable, production-grade data workflows.

Product integration and Snowflake Intelligence alignment

Key integration capabilities include:

Prefect–Snowflake Connector: A production-ready connector that uses SnowflakeCredentials and SnowflakeConnector blocks to execute queries, create tables, load data, and fetch results directly from Snowflake, with both synchronous and asynchronous execution options.

End-to-end pipeline orchestration around Snowflake: Prefect orchestrates ingestion, ELT/ETL, dbt transformations, Snowpark and ML pipelines, and reverse ETL jobs that land data in and extract value from Snowflake, alongside external APIs and services in a single workflow graph.

Centralized observability and reliability: Prefect gives teams a single view of every workflow in Snowflake, with built-in retries, alerting, and detailed run history. When a pipeline breaks, engineers can see immediately whether the issue is in their code, their configuration, or an upstream source system.

This foundation extends naturally into Snowflake Intelligence and agentic patterns:

Snowflake serves as a governed AI data and compute platform, enabling joint customers to securely store, manage, and process structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data at scale to power analytics, machine learning, and AI workloads.

Prefect serves as the orchestration connectivity layer, orchestrating data movement, external tools, and AI-agent workflows with FastMCP (Prefect's open-source MCP framework) and Horizon (MCP Gateway Platform), connecting agents to the internal APIs, databases, and SaaS tools that run the rest of the business. Agentic systems can treat Snowflake as a first-class, governed tool while still reaching the rest of the enterprise.