# Prequel

> Replicate live data between your platform and your customers' warehouses at scale.

Prequel lets B2B software companies offer warehouse-native data export and import as a product feature: customers connect their own database, data warehouse, or object storage, and Prequel keeps it in sync with the platform's data — white-labeled, multi-tenant, and SOC 2 Type II certified. The pages below are served as raw markdown for easy parsing; the same paths without `.md` are the HTML versions.

## Product

- [Prequel: The API for Data Warehouse Integrations](https://www.prequel.co/index.md): Replicate live data to your customers' data warehouses and sync their warehouse data into your product. Secure, at scale, white-labeled end to end.
- [Data Export — Prequel](https://www.prequel.co/data-export.md): Replace shared warehouse access, CSV sends, and one-off export builds with an embedded, white-labeled data export feature for 20+ destinations.
- [Data Import — Prequel](https://www.prequel.co/data-import.md): First-party data import from your customer's warehouse into your product. Replace CSV uploads and customer-built API scripts with an embedded import flow.
- [Make Your Product Agent-Ready — Prequel](https://www.prequel.co/ai-agents.md): Your customers' AI agents do their analysis in the data warehouse. Prequel syncs your product's live data there, white-labeled end to end, so customers can run the analysis they need.
- [Connections — Prequel](https://www.prequel.co/connections.md): Connect to 20+ data warehouses, databases, and object storage services.
- [Security — Prequel](https://www.prequel.co/security.md): Security is built into our platform at every step and tested rigorously.

## Guides

- [What It Means to Be Warehouse-Native](https://www.prequel.co/guides/what-it-means-to-be-warehouse-native.md): Enterprise software platforms increasingly need to connect directly to the customer's data warehouse. What that means in practice, and how to build it.
- [MCP vs. Data Exports: How AI Agents Should Access Your Product's Data](https://www.prequel.co/guides/mcp-vs-data-exports.md): MCP gives agents a way to look up records and take actions. Data exports give them a way to answer analytical questions. A framework for product teams deciding what data access to ship for the agent…
- [Embedded Analytics in the Agent Era: Dashboards, Data Exports, and What Your Customers' AI Agents Actually Need](https://www.prequel.co/guides/embedded-analytics-in-the-agent-era.md): Your customers' AI agents don't do their analysis in your product's UI. They do it in the data warehouse. A framework for product teams planning customer-facing analytics for the agent era.
- [Which features are required for data exports?](https://www.prequel.co/guides/which-features-are-required-for-data-exports.md): When building or buying data exports, you must go beyond basic data transfer. The product must connect to multiple platforms, enforce security and compliance, deliver a smooth customer experience,…
- [Why SaaS products need customer warehouse data import](https://www.prequel.co/guides/why-saas-products-need-customer-warehouse-import.md): If customer data is required before your product becomes useful, CSV uploads and customer-built API scripts will not scale. Here's when to make warehouse import a first-class product feature.
- [Which tools can you use to build data export?](https://www.prequel.co/guides/data-export-which-tools-to-use.md): When building data exports, companies often consider data integration tools, data sharing platforms, and dedicated data export solutions. But not all technologies are built for customer-facing use…
- [Why SaaS platforms should add data export](https://www.prequel.co/guides/why-saas-platforms-should-add-data-export.md): Like most product teams, you've got a long backlog of feature requests, and data export is just one of them. So, where should it rank? Here are some reasons our customers have moved data export to…
- [Best Reverse ETL Tools for Product and Engineering Platform Teams (2026)](https://www.prequel.co/guides/best-reverse-etl-tools-2026.md): Most reverse ETL roundups grade tools on internal data-team use cases. SaaS product and engineering teams shipping warehouse-native customer-facing integrations need a different lens — here's how the…

## Blog

- [Building table-aware, partition-aware physical replication for Iceberg tables](https://www.prequel.co/blog/physical-replication-for-iceberg-tables.md): Using physical replication to improve cross-cloud Iceberg table replication throughput by over 9x.
- [Agents Don't Read Dashboards](https://www.prequel.co/blog/agents-dont-read-dashboards.md): Your customers' AI agents don't log into your product to do analysis. They query the data warehouse. What that means for the data features you ship.
- [Some Questions Don't Fit in a Context Window](https://www.prequel.co/blog/some-questions-dont-fit-in-a-context-window.md): Making your product useful to AI agents takes two data surfaces, not one. MCP handles point lookups and actions; data exports handle whole-table questions.
- [Verticalization of the Data Warehouse](https://www.prequel.co/blog/verticalization-of-the-data-warehouse.md): Will Verticalization be a new growth experiment for the leading data warehouse platforms?
- [SQL Maxis: How to get a character from a codepoint in Spark SQL](https://www.prequel.co/blog/sql-maxis-how-to-get-a-character-from-a-codepoint-in-spark-sql.md): How we coerced Spark SQL into returning a proper character from a codepoint.
- [Everyone wants to be a Data Cloud](https://www.prequel.co/blog/everyone-wants-to-be-a-data-cloud.md): The pace of “Data Cloud” launches is rising as emerging technologies both unlock new opportunities and threaten category leaders.
- [Could Open Table Formats End the Reign of Snowflake and Databricks?](https://www.prequel.co/blog/could-open-table-formats-end-the-reign-of-snowflake-and-databricks.md): DuckLake asks a dangerous question: if your table catalog can just be a database, how much of Snowflake do you really need?
- [New: Send customers Delta Lake formatted data](https://www.prequel.co/blog/delta-lake-format.md): Starting today, Prequel customers can export Delta Lake formatted data to their customers’ object storage containers, allowing them to query exported data much faster than before.
- [Expert Advice: Build or Buy for data export?](https://www.prequel.co/blog/expert-advice-build-or-buy-for-data-export.md): We asked Kevin Suer, Director of Product at Zuora, what advice he would give to anyone evaluating whether to build or buy a data export solution.
- [New: Share vector and geography data with your customers](https://www.prequel.co/blog/share-vector-and-geography-data-with-your-customers.md): Any company that uses APIs or ETL tools to share vector or geographic data with customers can now use our Data Export Platform to drastically increase transfer throughput.
- [How fast is Iceberg on Snowflake?](https://www.prequel.co/blog/how-fast-is-iceberg-on-snowflake.md): We tested the performance of Iceberg tables, external tables, and native tables on Snowflake.
- [How to build data export products using MongoDB Atlas](https://www.prequel.co/blog/how-to-build-data-sharing-products-using-mongodb-atlas.md): In recent years, leading software companies have launched data sharing products that give customers direct access to the data they need.
- [Go Generics: Writing an Immutable Slice in Go](https://www.prequel.co/blog/go-generics-writing-an-immutable-slice-in-go.md): How to look out for “future you” when order matters.
- [Major Feature Release: Schema Evolution](https://www.prequel.co/blog/schema-evolution.md): How and why we built schema evolution into the Prequel platform
- [Building cross-cloud identity federation in Go for secure data sharing](https://www.prequel.co/blog/building-cross-cloud-identity-federation-in-go.md): How we built our improved cross-cloud data sharing authentication (with code examples).
- [Prequel raises $5.2M in Seed funding](https://www.prequel.co/blog/seed-announcement.md): Announcing our Seed round.
- [Changelog 8/28/2023: Role-based auth and new advanced features](https://www.prequel.co/blog/changelog-8-28-2023-role-based-auth-and-new-advanced-features.md): Prequel now supports role-based authentication (or "identity federation") for AWS or GCP destinations, including Redshift, Athena, S3, BigQuery, and Google Cloud Storage.
- [SQL Maxis: Constructing JSON objects in Athena using SQL](https://www.prequel.co/blog/sql-maxis-constructing-json-objects-in-athena-using-sql.md): How we coerced Athena into constructing and exporting tables as rows of JSON objects
- [Changelog 5/9/2023: Data import, webhooks, schema-tenanting](https://www.prequel.co/blog/changelog-5-9-2023-data-import-webhooks-schema-tenanting.md): Prequel now supports connecting to external (customer) data sources to import data — for many SaaS products, this is a critical capability.
- [SQL Maxis: Why We Ditched RabbitMQ And Replaced It With A Postgres Queue](https://www.prequel.co/blog/sql-maxis-why-we-ditched-rabbitmq-and-replaced-it-with-a-postgres-queue.md): Embracing our SQL Maxi nature: how we ripped out RabbitMQ from our infrastructure and replaced it with a Postgres queue.
- [Changelog 2/10/2023: Staging environments, multiple sources, & multiple products](https://www.prequel.co/blog/changelog-2-10-2023-staging-environments-multiple-sources-multiple-products.md): We're always adding new destinations, and this release includes a number of new object storage and database additions.
- [How to Share Data with Snowflake Data Sharing (with examples)](https://www.prequel.co/blog/how-to-share-data-with-snowflake-data-sharing.md): A short guide to setting up Snowflake Data Sharing.
- [Database Drivers: Naughty or Nice?](https://www.prequel.co/blog/database-drivers-naughty-or-nice.md): A list of the top driver bugs and misbehaviors we encountered this year.
- [Building Data Products: The Three Questions You Should Ask When Spec’ing Out A Data Product](https://www.prequel.co/blog/building-data-products-the-three-questions-you-should-ask-when-specing-out-a-data-product.md): The three questions you really should ask yourself before you start building a new data product.
- [Salesforce & Snowflake: B2B SaaS loves the Data Warehouse](https://www.prequel.co/blog/salesforce-snowflake-b2b-saas-loves-the-data-warehouse.md): Last month, Salesforce announced a native integration with Snowflake. Why? And what does this mean for the rest of B2B SaaS?
- [Introducing Prequel: Shifting The ETL Paradigm](https://www.prequel.co/blog/introducing-prequel-shifting-the-etl-paradigm.md): Announcing our launch.

## Documentation

- [Product documentation](https://docs.prequel.co)

## Legal

- [Privacy Policy](https://www.prequel.co/privacy.md)
- [Terms of Service](https://www.prequel.co/terms.md)